Biography

Nicole Michelle is an award winning NYC based Actor, Playwright and Director from Detroit, MI

She lovingly spent 12 years in Chicago bringing impassioned stories to life on the stages of Lookingglass Theatre, The Goodman, Writers Theatre and Drury Lane. The latter of which earned her a nomination from Chicago's Black Theatre Alliance and was awarded a Joseph Jefferson Award for " Best Supporting Actress" for her portrayal of Sophia in the musical The Color Purple. That same role car-ried her to another Best Supporting Award in 2022 from the St. Louis Theatre Circle at the Historic Muny Theatre.

She was last seen at the Goodman Theatre in The Color Purple which earned her a 2025 Jeff Award nomination for Best Supporting Performer in a Musical.

She is a School at Steppenwolf Acting Fellow, Associate Artist with Black Lives, Black Words International Theatre Collective and a MOSAIC Youth Theatre of Detroit Alum. You can catch her in a local Brooklyn café with her nose pressed into the worn pages of a book or on Instagram @NicoleMichelleHaskins
- IMDb mini biography by: Nicole Michelle Haskins