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{{short description|American playwright and actress}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Nicole Burdette
| image =
| caption =
| birth_name = Nicole Maria Burdette
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1963|12|24}}
| birth_place = [[San Francisco, California]], U.S.
| alma_mater = [[New York University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]])
The New School (MFA)
| years_active =
| relatives = [[Mike Stepovich]] (uncle)
}}
'''Nicole Maria Burdette''' (born December 24, 1963)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://cubib.com/find/nicole-burdette.57952426.html |title=Cubib Public Data Search: Nicole Burdette |access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref><ref name="vogue">{{cite web |url=http://www.maryellenmark.com/text/magazines/vogue/925L-000-019.html |first=John|last=Heilpern |title=Voices From The Edge |magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]] |date=November 1993 |access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref> is an American [[playwright]] and actress. She is also an [[assistant professor]] at [[The New School for Drama]].

==Early life and education==
Burdette was born in [[San Francisco]],<ref name="vogue"/> the first of two children of Ellen ([[née]] Stepovich) and Lawrence Burdette. Her uncle is former governor of [[Alaska]], [[Mike Stepovich]]<ref>{{cite news |date=February 20, 2014 |title=Mike Stepovich, Who Led Alaska to Statehood, Dies at 94 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/20/us/mike-stepovich-led-alaska-to-statehood-dies-at-94.html |access-date=June 30, 2018 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> whose daughter, Nada, is married to [[NBA]] Hall of Fame 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.<ref name="newschool">{{cite web|title=Nicole Burdette faculty profile|url=https://www.newschool.edu/drama/faculty-az/?id=4d6a-6735-4e54-4132|access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref> She has an MFA in Creative Writing from [[The New School]]'s Schools of Public Engagement.

In 2024 she was nominated for the Distinguished University Teaching Award (DUTA) from The New School.

==Career==
In 1986, she co-founded the theater company [[Naked Angels (theater company)|Naked Angels]], which she named<ref name="newschool"/><ref name="vogue"/> and whose president of the board for many years was [[John F. Kennedy Jr.]] 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), and 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 (town), New York|East Hampton]], and ''Chelsea Walls'', directed by Tony Award-winning [[Edwin Sherin]]. She adapted her play [[Chelsea Walls]] into a feature film directed by [[Ethan Hawke]], which premiered at the [[Cannes Film Festival]].

''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]]). 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 featured a cast that included [[Rufus Sewell]], Ethan Hawke, [[John Heard (actor)|John Heard]], [[Josh Hamilton (actor)|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 (theater company)|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 opposite [[Brad Pitt]] in [[Robert Redford]]'s ''[[A River Runs Through It (film)|A River Runs Through It]]''. She had acted with Pitt previously in the film ''Johnny Suede''; the scene was subsequently cut from the film. She portrayed [[List of characters from The Sopranos - friends and family#Barbara Soprano Giglione|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 (2000 film)|Maze]]''.<ref name="newschool" />

She has written for magazines such as ''[[Bomb (magazine)|Bomb]]'' (where she was a contributing editor for many years),<ref>{{cite web|title=Nicole Burdette – BOMB Magazine|url=https://bombmagazine.org/authors/nicole-burdette|access-date=June 30, 2018}}</ref> ''Interview'', and ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', for which she interviewed and was photographed with Redford in 1992.<ref>{{cite magazine|last=Burdette|first=Nicole|date=October 1992|title=Weird Wild and Woolly; Welcome to the Offbeat World of Robert Redford|magazine=[[Harper's Bazaar]]}}</ref> A piece of hers was commissioned and appeared in ANTHOLOGY: A MEMORY, A MONOLOGUE, A RANT AND A PRAYER, a collection which included pieces from [[Lynn Nottage]], [[Michael Cunningham]], [[Susan Minot]], and many others.

She teaches playwriting and screenwriting at [[The New School for Drama]]. She has also taught several classes at both [[Columbia University School of the Arts#Film|Columbia University's English Department and Columbia University's Film School]],<ref name="newschool"/> including the course she created, "Lou and You", about [[Lou Reed]]'s intellectual and academic journey toward becoming a songwriter and musician. She also received the Agnes Ranjo Capps Fellowship for playwriting in conjunction with The [[University of Montana]]'s Montana Repertory Theatre in 2008.

Burdette was nominated for the 2018 Rome Prize.

==Writing credits==
===Stage===
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Title
! Notes
|-
| ''Utterly Changed''
|
|-
| ''After The Deer Hunter''
|The Duke Theater on 42nd Street. Starring Logan Marshall Green. Published by Playscripts.
|-
| ''Busted''
| The John Drew Theater at Guild Hall in East Hampton. Starring Ashly Judd. Directed by [[Timothy Hutton]] (1993)
|-
| ''Chelsea Walls''
| Directed by Edwin Sherin. Produced by Naked Angels. Premiered 1990. Adapted by Burdette into [[Chelsea Walls|feature film]]
|-
| ''I'd Rather Be Punch Drunk''
| Produced by Naked Angels. Starring Nicole Burdette.
|-
| ''Listen to the Music and Wait''
|
|-
| ''Pagans in Limbo''
| [[WNYC]] radio play commissioned by the [[McCarter Theatre]], February 1992. Starring Laura Linney.
|-
| ''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. Starring Ethan Hawke, Robert Seam Leonard,Frank Whaley
|-
| ''The Investigation of Solitude''
|
|-
| ''Unknown Citizen''
|
|-
| ''Yes! We Have No Pajamas''
| directed by [[Brian MacDevitt]]
|}

===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Notes
|-
| 2000
| ''[[Maze (2000 film)|Maze]]''
| Screenplay co-writer
|-
| 2001
| ''[[Chelsea Walls]]''
|
|}

==Acting credits==
===Film===
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1990
|[[Goodfellas]]
|Carbone's Girlfriend
|
|-
| 1992
| ''[[A River Runs Through It (film)|A River Runs Through It]]''
| Mabel, Paul Maclean's (Brad Pitt) girlfriend
|
|-
|}

===Television===
{| class="wikitable"
|+
!Year
!Title
!Role
!Notes
|-
|2000–2001
|''[[The Sopranos]]''
|Barbara Soprano Giglione
|(1) Season 2 Episode 1: "Guy Walks Into a Psychiatrist's Office" (2000)<br>(2) Season 2 Episode 2: Do Not Resuscitate" (2000)<br>(3) Season 2 Episode 6: "The Happy Wanderer" (2000)<br>(4) Season 2 Episode 13: "Funhouse" (2000)<br>(5) Season 3 Episode 2: "Proshai, Livushka" (2001)
|}

==References==
{{reflist|50em}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb name|0120961}}

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[[Category:American women dramatists and playwrights]]
[[Category:The New School faculty]]
[[Category:Writers from San Francisco]]
[[Category:Actresses from San Francisco]]
[[Category:American women academics]]
[[Category:New York University alumni]]
[[Category:Academics from California]]
[[Category:20th-century American women writers]]
[[Category:21st-century American women writers]]

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