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    This document is a resume for Nikki Brake-Sillá, a playwright and director. It lists her education including an MFA from The City College of New York and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. It also outlines her many honors and awards for her work. The resume provides details of her plays, television pilots, commissions, and directing experience. It concludes with a list of her teaching experience and participation in panels and podcasts.

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    This document is a resume for Nikki Brake-Sillá, a playwright and director. It lists her education including an MFA from The City College of New York and a BA from the University of Pennsylvania. It also outlines her many honors and awards for her work. The resume provides details of her plays, television pilots, commissions, and directing experience. It concludes with a list of her teaching experience and participation in panels and podcasts.

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    Nikki Brake-Sillá

    646-415-4759 • ginifilms.com • info@ginfilms.com

    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
    Nikki Brake-Sillá Page 2 of 3

    SELECTED PLAYS/NARRATIVE – FULL LENGTH


    GTFOH The Lark Roundtable 2021
    Jouska PlayWorks Showcase 2021
    Mitten Residency 2019
    Jouska Play Works Table Read 2019
    In Defense of Ourselves PWTF 2020
    Dear Ann Mitten Residency 2019
    Jouska PlayWorks Table Read 2019
    Trouble of the World DrAW Table Read 2019
    A Weathering DrAW Table Read 2019

    SELECTED PLAYS – SHORT / ONE ACTS


    Lily on the Rise Black Music City + RECPhilly 2021
    Jouska PlayWorks Table Read 2021
    Ting-a-Ling Jouska PlayWorks Table Read 2021
    A.M.A.- Against Medical Advice SSMF: Rupture and Repair 2021
    Advancing the Village 2020
    SoLow Festival 2019
    from Jouska PlayWorks Table Read 2020
    Staged Reading – 2018

    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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    PANELS & PODCASTS


    “WHAT HAPPENS NOW?”: A Virtual Lark Panel Event June 2021
    TCG: BIPOC Disability Affinity Spaces June 2021
    Art Meets Offspring Podcast May 2021
    What We’re Watching Podcast September 2020

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