BrakeSillaNikki Resume Current
BrakeSillaNikki Resume Current
BrakeSillaNikki Resume Current
EDUCATION
The City College of New York MFA
University of Pennsylvania BA
HONORS/AWARDS
The Bethany Arts Community Residency 2021
The Sachs Program for Arts Innovation - 2021
The Orchard Project TV Lab – Semi-Finalist 2021
Terrance McNally Award – Finalist 2021
Black Music City – RECPhilly 2021
Certificate in Women’s Entrepreneurship – Cornell University 2021
Puffin Foundation Theatre Award 2021
Lark Winter Writer’s Retreat 2021
Semi-Finalist Middlebury TV Lab 2021
Lark Apothetae Finalist 2020-2022
The Black Motherhood & Parent New Play Festival Semifinalist 2020
Window of Opportunity Grant 2020
Directors Gathering Jam 2020
Black Theatre Alliance of Philadelphia Micro Grant 2021, 2020
Finalist SPACE on Ryder Farm Family Residency 2020
Semi-Finalist O’Neill National Playwrights Conference 2020
Semi-Finalist Bay Area Playwrights Festival 2020
Semi-Finalist Premiere Stages Festival 2020
Regional Center for Women Artists Award 2020
Leeway Foundation Art and Change Grant 2019
Jouska PlayWorks Inaugural Member 2019
Mitten Lab Residency 2019
The Foundry Finalist 2019
DrAW (Dramatists At War) Founding Member
Second Round Sundance Screenwriters Lab 2020, 2017, 2015
Princess Grace Professional Development Grant 2020, 2018, 2017
Middlebury Script Lab Semi-Finalist 2017
Dramatists Guild – Member
Directors Gathering - Member
Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Incorporated – Member
Children’s Community School - Board Member
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TELEVISION PILOTS
Labor & Delivery Jouska PlayWorks Table Read 2020
COMMISIONS
Everything the Devil Stole Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Fest 2021
Macbeth Revolution Shakespeare 2021
Lily on the Rise Black Music City RECPhilly 2021
In Defense of Ourselves Philadelphia Women’s Theatre Fest 2020
Sonnets XII, L & LVIII 154 Revisited RevShakes
Philly Fringe 2020
DIRECTING
Scraps by Quinn D. Eli (DG) Jam 2021
Homeridae by Alexandra Espinoza Staged Reading Theatre Exile June 2020
A.M.A.- Against Medical Advice SSMF: Rupture and Repair 2021
Advancing the Village 2020
SoLow Festival 2019
The Continent of Light Documentary
Open Wound Documentary
TEACHING
Directors Circle Black Theatre Girl Magic 2021
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