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Nikiya Mathis

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NIKIYA MATHIS. Off Broadway: Fidelis (Public Theater); The Brother Sister Plays: In the Red & Brown Water & Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet (Public Theater), Milk Like Sugar (Playwrights Horizons); Seed (Classical Theater of Harlem). Regional:  The Blood Quilt (Arena Stage); By The Way Meet Vera Stark  (Alliance Theater); The Mountaintop (Milwaukee Repertory theater); Intimate Apparel (Two River Theater);  Eclipsed (McCarter Theatre); Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla Playhouse); The Brother Sister Plays (McCarter Theater); The Continuum Company’s Romeo and Juliet (Florence, Italy). Commercials: Diet Coke “Heart Health,” Kraft Macaroni and Cheese “Pregnant,” Nationwide Insurance “Atlanta Falcon’s House.” Television:Elementary,” “Person of Interest,” “Madam Secretary,” “Crime.” Film: Compliance (dir. Craig Zobel); Knucklehead (dir. Ben Bowman). BA: Temple University, MFA: NYU Acting Graduate.