Nicole Burdette


Nicole Maria Burdette is an American playwright and actress, currently working as an assistant professor at The New School for Drama.

Early life and education

Burdette was born in San Francisco, the first of two children of Ellen and Lawrence Burdette. Her uncle is former Governor of Alaska, Mike Stepovich. She has a younger sister named Laura.
She attended New York University with a triple major in acting, writing and the humanities. She graduated with honors and was a recipient of the Founders' Day Award.

Career

In 1986, she co-founded the theater company Naked Angels, which she named. Her first film role was in 1987's Angel Heart. Her first major role was as Mabel opposite Brad Pitt in Robert Redford's A River Runs Through It. She portrayed Barbara Soprano on the HBO television series The Sopranos from 2000 to 2001. She received the Best Screenplay Award at the 2001 Newport Beach Film Festival for Maze. She adapted her 1989 play Chelsea Walls into a feature film directed by Ethan Hawke, which premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Burdette has written for magazines such as Bomb and Harper's Bazaar, for which she interviewed Robert Redford in 1992.
She has been teaching courses on playwriting and screenwriting at The New School for Drama for more than 10 years. She has also taught at Columbia University's film school.
In 2018 she was nominated for the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Writing credits

Stage

Film

Acting credits

Film

Television