Nikki Renee Daniels

Nikki Renée Daniels, guest artist

Nikki Renée Daniels recently starred in Once Upon a Mattress (Lady Larken), and in the Tony Award winning revival of Company (Jenny) on Broadway. She played Angelica Schuyler in Hamilton, at the CIBC Center in Chicago. Other Broadway credits include The Book of Mormon (Nabulungi), the 2012 Tony Award winning revival of The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess (Clara), Les Miserablés (Fantine), Nine, Aida, Little Shop of Horrors, The Look of Love, Promises, Promises, Anything Goes, and Lestat.

She made her New York City Opera debut as Clara in Porgy and Bess. Other New York credits include Martha Jefferson in 1776 at City Center Encores! and Eve/Mama Noah in the New York premiere of Children of Eden at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center.

Regionally, Nikki has been seen in Caroline, or Change (Emmie) at the Guthrie Theatre; Ray Charles Live! (Della B.) at Pasadena Playhouse; The Music Man (Marian) and Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown) at Pittsburgh CLO; Anything Goes (Hope) at Williamstown Theatre Festival; Beauty and the Beast (Belle) at Sacramento Music Circus, and North Shore Music Theater; Ragtime (Sarah) at North Shore Music Theatre; Aida (Aida) and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Narrator) at ArtPark.  Her film and television credits include The Other Woman, “Chappelle's Show,” “Madam Secretary,” and “The Sound of Music: Live.”

Nikki has performed as a soloist with many symphony orchestras worldwide, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The Toronto Symphony Orchestra, the North Czech Philharmonic, The Capetown Philharmonic, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the Philly Pops, the New York Pops, Indianapolis Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony, Baltimore Symphony, Houston Symphony, Pittsburgh Symphony, and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra.  She has also performed as a soloist at Carnegie Hall, and holds a BFA from the University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Her debut CD, Home, is available on iTunes. Follow her on social media at @nikkireneesings.



Upcoming Performances