Star File
Nikki M. James
Before graduating from NYU, James made her Broadway debut in the short-lived 2001 musical The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. The Elvis-themed musical All Shook Up followed in 2005, as well as stints in off-Broadway's Walmartopia and Bernarda Alba and Caesar and Cleopatra opposite Christopher Plummer at the Stratford Theater Festival. In 2011 James won a Tony Award for bringing a dose of tenderness to the raunchy musical hit The Book of Mormon as kind-hearted African villager Nabulungi.
(Nikki M. James, photo courtesy of Rubenstein)
Now Starring In
Suffs
Shaina Taub's epic new musical telling the story of the suffragists as they fight for the women's right to vote.
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