Meet NICKY SUNSHINE™ - a force to be reckoned with in the world of comedy.  She has starred in and produced several comedy shows in major NYC venues like Times Square Arts Center, Broadway Comedy Club, Stand-Up NY  & New York Comedy Club.   Most recently she performed for COMEDY PIE™ PRODUCTIONS at Harrah’s Casino in Missouri where she simply tore the house down.  

Nicky Sunshine™ began her formal theater training at Northwestern University. While in Evanston she wrote and produced her own skits for African American Theater Ensemble.  She also appeared in the Independent Film ’DIAMONDS IN THE RUFF’ and as a member of the German based R&B group "KJ-19" she landed a featured appearance on John "The Scatman’s single "The Chickadee Song.

She has also performed in numerous Off-Broadway productions including the acclaimed play by Linda Nieves Powell, YO SOY LATINA.  She originated the role of Samana in the hit play PLATANOS AND COLLARD GREENS and most recently she starred in THE VAGINA MONOLOGUES at the New World Stages Theater in NYC benefiting Womens Organization of Rebirth Through Healing, Women Are Dreamers Too and Women of Color Network.

Sure to blaze a trail in the entertainment industry, NICKY SUNSHINE™ has established herself as one of the most innovative female performers out there today and as a major comic voice for women’s issues.



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“Nicky is an unbelievable talent.  She is original, confident and extremely easy to work with. I expect huge things for her”  –Jessica Kirson, Comedienne/Producer

"So many comics forget that the show should be fun for the audience. Not Nicky. Her energy, passion, and enthusiasm creates a show that's the equivalent of a comedy party. Her goal is perfectly clear: a good time should be had by all!" - Jim Medrinos, Producer/NEW YORK UNDERGROUND COMEDY FESTIVAL

"Nicky made me laugh so hard, I thought I ruptured my spleen. From her first joke to her last, I was spellbound by her witty, hilarious and high energy brand of humor and kept wanting more. Nicky makes our productions ultra successful and she steals the shows with her charm and wit everytime"  –Bernie Furshpan, NY HYSTERICAL SOCIETY

"There are very few Comedienne/Actresses who solely do the art of Stand-Up & Acting with such a passion and love for it with no other agenda than to bring down the house and she is such a performer.  In my experience with Nicky she has exemplified & distinguished herself and displayed a great degree of versatility, initiative and dedication to the entertainment business, in all areas of the Comedy Business and thru her efforts, she has performed with distinction and devotion for the art and is sure to be a Powerhouse Female in the Comedy World and a Superstar sure to knock down more barriers & glass ceilings for women that exist in the comedy business"  -Julio Ray, COMEDY PIE™ PRODUCTIONS

SAG*AFTRA
                                                                
TELEVISION

Martha Stewart

Saturday Night Live                      Guest Oprah’s Legend Ball

America’s Most Wanted              Girlfriend of Marcus Head

                                   Si TV Comedy Quickies                 Featured Comedian                                              


FILM

              Diamondz in Da Ruff                     Nicole                           Maverick Entertainment


THEATRE

The Vagina Monologues           The Little Coochi Snorcher                    New World Stages

Yo Soy Latina                            Soledad                          Bank St Theatre

             Amelia Bedelia                        Hattie                              Imagination Stage

A Girl of Faith                           Constance                     Pearl Theatre
  
Platanos &Collard Greens          Samana                          Producer’s Club

    Dead Men Don’t Talk                     Nikki                           Flatirons Theater

                Giving Up the Gun              Rhythm Setter                Hip Hop Theater Festival

                             Freedom’s Children                      Lucille                              Discovery Smithsonian Theatre

                  Uncle Tom’s Cabin                            Eliza                                 American Century Theater

                            Brasil                                Otilia                              Gala Hispanic Theatre

     Pieces of Life                             Roselyn                          Kennedy Center

                    We are Africa                           Linda                           Soul in Motion Players

       Comedy of Errors               Duke/Amelia                   ETC/Globostage

                     Second Lady                             Mitzi                 Little Theatre of Alexandria


Radio

Mancow

Sirius Satellite Radio

WPAT930AM Bob O’brien  “The Answer Man”


Stand up Comedy /Improv

New York Underground Comedy Festival opened for Franklyn Ajaye

Next I Bar Star Finalist Harrah’s Casino in St. Louis

NBC Stand Up for Diversity Finalist at the PIT

Stand Up NY “Music is a Joke” Finalist

Broadway Comedy Club Host

New York Comedy Club Host

Eastville Comedy Club

Laugh Lounge

(Numerous comedy club appearances)


TRAINING

People’s Improv Theatre

                                                           Upright Citizens Brigade                                                           

Northwestern University B.A.

Classical & Modern Comedy  Floyd King, The Shakespeare Theatre Wash D.C.

Special Skills    Fluent Spanish, German, Dialects, Latin Dancing