Brittani Nichols

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.^[18] Nichols signed with CAA in 2022.^[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 a Captain for Writers Guild of America West and spoke on behalf of members during the 2023 writers strike.^[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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