Nicole gabriella Scipione
Nicole's Play Me Like That is NOW STREAMING on Apple TV+!!! Come play with us!
Nicole gabriella Scipione
Nicole's Play Me Like That is NOW STREAMING on Apple TV+!!! Come play with us!
"Scipione is a beacon." Indie Wire
Pulitzer Prize winning Disgraced, Playmakers' Repertory Comp
Song in a Convenience Store
Directed by Silas Weir Mitchell, written by Nicole Gabriella Scipione, 3rd Place Winner Short Narrative in Oscar Qualifying Athens International Film & Video Festival
“brings earthy sexuality & touching vulnerability." LA TIMES
Reel (shorter)
"Nicole Gabriella Scipione shows winning versatility in multiple roles as a stern but understanding speech therapistand a clueless sales clerk (among others)." --SAN DIEGO UNION TRIBUNE
Reel (full length)
“Romantic leads Ryan Culver and Nicole Gabriella Scipione bring the perfect combination of chemistry, friction, and humor." LA TIMES
About Me
My Background
Artist's Statement
My Background
Nicole Gabriella Scipione was born the middle child in a gaggle of 5 children to her minister Father George Charles Scipione, & educator/counselor Mother Eileen Cheryl Scipione & got to live on a manse in New Jersey, where they house ministerial families. Then her Father felt called to Southern California (who wouldn't?) & in elementary school, theatre marched into Nicole's life with her first play, Sleeping Beauty, where she found the coke coating the stage to keep everyone from slipping, was very sticky while they were 'asleep' upon it under the witch's spell. Perhaps so sticky the stage has never let her go: she was home.
Nicole's first big role as a teenager was Cinderella in Rogers and Hammerstein's Cinderella directed by Sydney Forest; she continued getting her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre from UC Santa Barbara, where she created a one woman show loosely based on Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar. Nicole moved to Los Angeles & began working in TV/Film, including John Larroquette's McBride: Dogged, Justine Bateman's Violet starring Olivia Munn & a lifeguard who fails to save Daryl Hannah from sharks in Shark Swarm. She's gone on to play memorable roles in regional theatre including Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winner Disgraced at PlayMakers Repertory Company, Jenny in The Tony award nominated Lucas Hnath's The Christians at Actors Co-op (Stage Scene LA Winner, Outstanding Performance by A Featured Actress in a Drama), Ruth Bader GetsIt in For The Love Of (or the roller derby play) at The Kirk Douglas Theatre, Abigail in The Crucible (Stage Scene LA Winner, tied with Alicia Silverstone in Time Stands Still for Best Performance by a Featured Actress, Drama), & with comedic luminaries Culture Clash in AmeriCCa at South Coast Repertory, & Seema Sueko at The Pasadena Playhouse.
Also an ardent screenwriter, playwright, producer, & poet, Nicole's short Song in a Convenience Store, directed by Silas Weir Mitchell, made the festival circuit, winning 3rd place Short Narrative in the Academy Award qualifying Athens International Film Festival & she has optioned & adapted X.J. Kennedy's The Owlstone Crown into a screenplay.
FAVORITE THINGS...
Nicole can be found treasuring time with family & friends, speaking in myriad dialects with aplomb, dancing Cumbia, African & Bollywood in arguably awkward places, playing her guitar, working to create a more just & loving world, while inhaling the scent of honeysuckle & jasmine for scandalous amounts of time.
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Artist's Statement
My Background
Reviews from Play Me Like That, multi-award nominated short film written/starring/co-produced by
Nicole now streaming on Apple TV+
“funny and heartbreaking at the same time…beautiful portrayal of a relationship between siblings…thought provoking, Slipper and Crescent were characters with unique personalities and came to life on the screen in the fantastic performances.”
~ HELL’S HALF MILE MUSIC & FILM FESTIVAL
“know that you made me laugh, cry, Google stuff I didn’t know, and blush.” ~ Tracey L. Adlai, VALLEY FILM FESTIVAL FOUNDER/DIRECTOR
"Thought provoking" and "magnetic," where "Nicole Gabriella Scipione breaks hearts."
~ STAGE RAW, Lucas Hnath's Obie Award Winning The Christians
“Nicole Gabriella Scipione was excellent as Emily, happily paddling on the surface of her easy beliefs, until she was sucked under in their riptide.”
~ CLASSICAL VOICE OF NORTH CAROLINA (CVNC.org), Ayad Akhtar's Pulitzer Prize winning Disgraced
"Add to that...a devastating featured turn by Scipione as a young woman facing her own crisis of faith...and you've got another Actors Co-op must see." ~ STAGE SCENE LA, Lucas Hnath's Obie Award Winning The Christians
Artist's Statement
Artist's Statement
Artist's Statement
I create funny, raw, real, honest, imaginative, compassionate, brave, hopeful stories.
I create to listen to my Soul, longer than my Ego. I create to raise the voices of my sisters.
I create to labor towards a world where everyone gets a turn. A power to, not power over, world.
I create work that is safe only in its integrity. I create work that cherishes the idea of listening without interruption, like the Moth Radio Hour format provides.
I create because if your life is quieter, it doesn’t mean it’s not precious. There’s a reason there’s multiple films & shows over time all titled “Little Voice.”
I create stories that face our shadow side but turn towards the face of compassion & touch it. Are touched by it. I create to let the bird quaking inside my chest try & fall, try & fail, try & fly.
I create because my values of curiosity, compassion and clarity get stirred up, touched, engorged, when I write about the things that will not let me go. I create because if I don’t, those values start to atrophy.
I create theatre because it’s like communion. A sacred connection formed in real time between those onstage & off. Both groups of humans are feeding each other, impacting each other, need each other. And I believe we’re in deep need of communing with each other.
I create because feminists have things to share. I think I’ve been one since I was 10. Before any adult in my world told me to be. Before I possessed that word for it. As a 5th grader, I deeply held the contours of the faith tradition I was raised in as an accurate map of the world’s shape. Simultaneously I distinctly recall being told one group of humans, men, are the “head” of another group of humans, women, & thinking “Well that’s unjust. And also bonkers.” Maybe a little like when our GPS leads us awry, it’s very rattling to have a trusted Source tell you something is true when you experientially know it to be otherwise. Now that I’ve traversed the map of life as far as I have, my international lines of faith & worldview have profoundly widened, & I consider the One Love that connects us all more powerfully than our hate, by whatever name we call (or don’t call) it, as my Soul’s GPS, my ardor for zooming the map in on female & non-binary stories grows only deeper. If female stories aren’t being nurtured & celebrated, how will humanity even locate us on the map? And if, as we continue to learn, representation is not the same thing as belonging & inclusion, it also matters through what lens we’re represented & how supported we are with resources, access, knowledge, mentorship & advocacy.
What can I do to contribute? What is my love language? Many of my heroes are spiritual storytellers. The way I have been the most impacted & changed in my life is by stories & by deeply connected, loving relationships with humans (& sometimes by the lack, or rupture of, loving connection). Amanda Gorman, Dr. Angelou, Mary Oliver, Emily Dickinson, Hafiz, Oprah, Fred Rogers, Danai Gurira: if I lose my way, when I’m at my lowest, & when I’m climbing to my highest, they guide me. Fred’s core wound was loneliness as an only child. Look what he did with that wound. Charles Schultz’s core wound of depression, look what he did with that! We have these profoundly flawed, lovable & universally relatable characters who we can laugh with, not at. Fred’s tenderness, his presence to truly receive & celebrate each person, Danai’s dedication to women & co-existing criticism of Christianity for its vast colonial failings, while holding its tenets of forgiveness & justice near, Oprah’s Super Soul Sundays & the spaciousness they create for the soul: these heroes help set my internal compass to outward action.
I create because I was created to.
© 2024 – 2025 Nicole Gabriella Scipione
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