
Nikki Renée Daniels
Acting
Biography
Nikki Renée Daniels is an acclaimed Broadway actress and concert soloist. She recently finished a run as Lady Larken in the Broadway revival of Once Upon a Mattress. You may have seen Nikki featured in the PBS concert specials: Broadway’s Brightest Lights and Black Broadway: A Proud History, a Limitless Future. She played Eve/Mama Noah in Children of Eden at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center, Angelica Schuyler in the Chicago company of Hamilton, and Jenny in the Tony-Award winning Broadway revival of Company. She has done 12 Broadway shows, including The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi), The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Clara) Les Misérables (Fantine), Anything Goes, Promises Promises and Lestat. Nikki played Martha Jefferson in 1776 at Encores, and Rose Lennox in The Secret Garden at David Geffen Hall. She made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Nikki’s regional credits include Emmie in Caroline or Change at the Guthrie; Sarah in Ragtime at North Shore Music Theater; Belle in Beauty and the Beast at Sacramento Music Circus and Hope in Anything Goes at Williamstown Theater Festival. She has been seen on TV in “Billions,” “The Equalizer,” “Madam Secretary” and “The Sound of Music: Live.” She was also a part of the Vocal Ensemble in the blockbuster film Wicked. Nikki has performed as a soloist with symphony orchestras across the country, around the world, and at Carnegie Hall.
Filmography
14 credits
Black Broadway: A Proud History, A Limitless Future
Movie • 2023
Self

Keeping Company with Sondheim
Movie • 2022
Self / Jenny

Broadway's Brightest Lights
Movie
Performer

George Gershwin: Bidin' My Time
Movie • 2020

Tom Jones & Harvey Schmidt: Simple Little Things
Movie • 2020

Rodgers, Rodgers & Guettel: Statues and Stories
Movie • 2020

The Theme From...: Songs Written for Film
Movie • 2020

Jule Styne and His Many Lyricists: Distant Melody
Movie • 2020

Lynn Ahrens: A Lyric Life
Movie • 2020

The Sound of Music Live!
Movie • 2013
Chorus

Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert
Movie • 2023
Sarah

Modern Love
TV • 2019
Mom

Great Performances
TV • 1971
Self

Madam Secretary
TV • 2014
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