Atlantic Theater Company exterior at night with "The Band's Visit" show poster.
Jennifer Nikki Kidwell with short, textured hair and earrings, looking contemplative.

Jennifer Nikki Kidwell

Ann Lavender

JENNIFER NIKKI KIDWELL (Ann Lavender). Recent original works – we come to collect (Woolly Mammoth Weissberg Commission), Those With 2 Clocks (The Wilma Theater), Underground Railroad Game (2017 Obie for Best New American Theatre Work; 2018 Edinburgh Fringe First Award). Recent works – Ocean Filibuster (PearlDamour), Eternal Life Part 1, Fat Ham (2021 film), Antigone (The Wilma Theater), Syllabus for Black LoveBlack Body Amnesia (jaamil olawole kosoko), Home (Geoff Sobelle; 2018 Bessie Award), Adrienne Truscott’s Still Asking for It (Joe’s Pub), I Understand Everything Better (David Neumann/abg; 2015 Bessie Award), Being/With, The Octopus and the Interview (Nichole Canuso Dance Company), Superterranean, Fire Burns Hot: Little Reno!, I Promised Myself to Live Faster, 99 Break-Ups (PITC). 2020 Visiting Artist Duke University, 2021 Visiting Artist UPenn. 2013 TCG/Fox Resident Actor Fellowship, 2015, 2021 Leeway Foundation Art & Change Grant, 2016 Pew Fellow, 2017 Independence Fellowship, 2020 Ruthie Award & Hodder Fund Grant, 2023 FCA Fellow.