Brittani Nichols

Brittani Nichols (born June 20, 1988) is an American producer, actress, comedian, and writer. 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. As part of the producing team of Abbott Elementary, Nichols was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series in 2023 and 2024.

Career Television and film 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. The series centered a group of queer twenty-something roommates in LA and starred Nichols, Corbin Reid, Hannah Hart, Alex Sturman, and Lauren Neal. 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". 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. Suicide Kale won the Audience Award for Best U.S. Dramatic Feature at Outfest.

She has appeared in several television programs including A Black Lady Sketch Show, Take My Wife, and Transparent. She has also written for Strangers, Drop the Mic, and Take My Wife. 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.

She is a writer and producer for the ABC comedy Abbott Elementary. Nichols signed with CAA in 2022.

Other work In 2016, she released a five-track EP, Brittani Nichols Likes You. Nichols also is a Captain for Writers Guild of America West and spoke on behalf of members during the 2023 writers strike.

Personal life Nichols was born in Chicago. After attending Thornwood High School, she attended Yale University, where she played on the women's basketball team and women's rugby team. She supported Hugo Soto-Martinez and Eunisses Hernandez during the 2022 Los Angeles elections.

Accolades

2024 – Out100, Storytellers

Filmography Acting

Writer