Nicole Burdette

Nicole Maria Burdette (born December 24, 1963)[1][2] is an American playwright and actress. She is also currently an assistant professor at The New School for Drama.

Nicole Burdette
Born
Nicole Maria Burdette

(1963-12-24) December 24, 1963
San Francisco, California, U.S.
Alma materNew York University (BA)
RelativesMike Stepovich (uncle)

Early life and education

Burdette was born in San Francisco,[2] the first of two children of Ellen (née Stepovich) and Lawrence Burdette. She has a younger sister named Laura. Her uncle is former Governor of Alaska, Mike Stepovich [3] whose daughter Nada is married to NBA player John Stockton.

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.[4]

Career

In 1986, she co-founded the theater company Naked Angels, which she named.[4][2] The Naked Angels Theater Company produced many of her plays including The Bluebird Special Came Through Here, directed by Rebecca Miller, I'd Rather Be Punch Drunk (which she starred in as well), BUSTED (with Ashley Judd in her first stage role) which was on a double bill with the original one act of what was to become Lobby Hero by Kenneth Lonergan produced in conjunction with The John Drew Theater in East Hampton and Chelsea Walls, directed by Tony Award winning Edwin Sherin.

Chelsea Walls was originally workshopped and performed for a one night staged reading with Matt Dillon, Rob Morrow, Nancy Travis and many others at The Minetta Lane Theatre, directed by Roxanne Rogers (sister of Sam Shepard). And in 1998 a star studded benefit reading of the play for the theater company was produced at The New Victory Theater on Broadway, directed by film director Alexandre Rockwell and a cast that included Rufus Sewell, Ethan Hawke, John Heard, Kathryn Erbe, Mary Stuart Masterson, Josh Hamilton, Jesse L. Martin, Kevin Corrigan and others. She acted in many productions with Naked Angels as well, including starring in Kenneth Lonergan's A Suffering Colonel. Burdette also was involved as both an actor and playwright with Malaparte who produced her play The Great Unwashed, starring Ethan Hawke, Frank Whaley, Robert Sean Leonard and Martha Plimpton.

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 had acted with Brad Pitt previously in the film Johnny Suede, the scene was subsequently cut from the film. 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.[4] She adapted her critically acclaimed play Chelsea Walls into a feature film directed by Ethan Hawke, which premiered at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.

Vogue magazine has called her 'the Holly Golightly dramatist of New York City" in an article written by John Heilpern and photographed by Mary Ellen Mark. She has also been photographed by Peter Beard, Patrick Demarchelier for Harper's Bazaar (with Robert Redford), and many others. Burdette has written for magazines such as Bomb,[5] Interview and Harper's Bazaar, for which she interviewed Robert Redford in 1992.[6]

She teaches playwriting and screenwriting at The New School for Drama. She has also taught at Columbia University's English Department and Film School.[4]

In 2018 she was nominated for the Rome Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

Writing credits

Stage
Title Notes
After The Deer Hunter
Busted directed by Timothy Hutton (1993)
Chelsea Walls Written 1989, premiered 1990. Adapted by Burdette into feature film
I'd Rather Be Punch Drunk
Listen to the Music and Wait
Pagans in Limbo WNYC radio play commissioned by the McCarter Theatre, February 1992
Scandinavian Scorpions directed by Burdette
Sullivan Travels Again
The Bluebird Special Came Through Here directed by Rebecca Miller
The Dizziness of Too Many Possibilities
The Great Unwashed directed by Max Mayer. Produced by Malaparte and Jason Blum
The Investigation of Solitude
Unknown Citizen
Yes! We Have No Pajamas directed by Brian MacDevitt

Film
Year Title Notes
2000 Maze screenplay co-writer
2001 Chelsea Walls

Acting credits

Film
Year Title Role Notes
1987 Angel Heart Ellie
1987 Nuts Cell Woman #3
1989 Bloodhounds of Broadway Woman on Corner
1990 Goodfellas Carbone's Girlfriend
1990 Industrial Symphony No. 1 Chorus Girl
1992 A River Runs Through It Mabel
1993 Geoffrey Beene 30 Woman Short
1995 Search and Destroy Dorothy
1995 Palookaville Chris
1998 Digging to China Miss Mosher
2008 The Accidental Husband Woman Caller

Television


References
  1. "Cubib Public Data Search: Nicole Burdette". Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  2. Heilpern, John (November 1993). "Voices From The Edge". Vogue. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  3. "Mike Stepovich, Who Led Alaska to Statehood, Dies at 94". New York Times. February 20, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  4. "Nicole Burdette faculty profile". Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  5. "Nicole Burdette - BOMB Magazine". Retrieved June 30, 2018.
  6. Burdette, Nicole (October 1992). "Weird Wild and Woolly; Welcome to the Offbeat World of Robert Redford". Harper's Bazaar.
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