actor/writer/director
Nicole Parker (actor/writer/director) was seen as Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying at Reprise! last spring. She last appeared on Broadway as Elphaba in Wicked. Her Broadway debut was Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Other theater credits include: Juliet in Second City's Romeo and Juliet Musical at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater (Jeff Nomination), and Pamina in The Magic Flute at the Falcon Theater in Los Angeles. For six seasons, Nicole was an actress and contributing writer on Fox's MADtv. She recently appeared in Judd Apatow's third film, Funny People. This summer, she won a Best Actress award for her work in the short film Weathered at the Damah Film Festival in Washington.Before joining MADtv, she spent two years in Amsterdam as a writer and performer at Boom Chicago, an American-based sketch and improv theater. During her time there she created two new revues, both of which were featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She made her Birdland debut in New York this winter with her one-woman show, Suitcase Full of Lies. Nicole is a founding member of the Waterwell Theater, a non-profit company in New York City. With Waterwell, she has performed as Laurencia in their adaptation of Fuenteovejuna, and created the role of Victoria Woodhull in Wizard of Wall Street, as part of Premiere Musicals, a new musical workshop series, at her alma mater, Indiana University Department of Theatre and Drama.
