Brittani Nichols

Brittani Nichols (born June 20, 1988)^[1] is an American producer, actress, comedian, and writer.^[2] In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in the film Suicide Kale, which won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at 2016 Outfest. She has written for the television programs A Black Lady Sketch Show , Take My Wife , Strangers , and Drop the Mic.^[3] Nichols is a writer and producer for Abbott Elementary and won the Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series award at the 54th NAACP Image Awards for the episode "Student Transfer".^{[4] [5]} As part of the producing team of Abbott Elementary, Nichols was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2023.^[6]

Nichols moved to Los Angeles after college and developed the web series Words With Girls (2012), which she later rewrote as a full-length pilot that was produced by Issa Rae and Deniese Davis's initiative ColorCreative.tv.^{[7] [8] [9]} The series centered a group of queer twenty-something roommates in LA and starred Nichols, Corbin Reid, Hannah Hart, Alex Sturman, and Lauren Neal.^[9] In 2016, Nichols wrote, produced, and starred in Suicide Kale, a dark comedy with an all queer-woman cast.^[10] Nichols stated in an interview that she set out to make a lesbian movie that "wasn’t about coming out, sleeping with a man, or a character death at the end".^[11] Both Words with Girls and Suicide Kale draw on Nichols' own experiences as a lesbian, and she has stated repeatedly in interviews that she is committed to increasing LGBTQ and African-American representation in media.^[12] Suicide Kale won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at Outfest.^[3]

She has appeared in several television programs including A Black Lady Sketch Show , Take My Wife , and Transparent .^{[13] [10]} Nichols was a writer for season one of the HBO series A Black Lady Sketch Show .^[14] She has also written for Strangers , Drop the Mic, and Take My Wife.^[15] She served as Consulting Producer for The Circle and Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness .

In 2020, it was announced that Nichols would produce a dramedy, Toothbrush, for Quibi through ColorCreative; however Quibi went out of business before the show was created.^{[16] [17]}

She is a writer and producer for the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary and is represented by CAA.^{[18] [19] [20]}

In 2016, she released a five-track EP, Brittani Nichols Likes You.^[2] Nichols previously co-hosted two podcasts, Brand New Podcast with Ariana Lenarsky, and Hamilton the Podcast with Khalehla Rixon.^[21] Nichols also is Writers Guild of America West Captain.^[22]

Nichols was born in Chicago.^[23] After attending Thornwood High School, she attended Yale University, where she played on the women's basketball team and women's rugby team.^[1]

She is gay and genderqueer.^[24] She supported Hugo Soto-Martinez and Eunisses Hernandez during the 2022 Los Angeles elections.^{[25] [26]}

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