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Spotlight Series: Nikiya Mathis, Broadway’s First Tony-Winning Wig Designer
Why is there still no Tony Award category for wig design? Most audiences never even realize the actors on stage are wearing wigs, and that is exactly the point. On this Spotlight Series episode of “Half Hour,” we sit down with Nikiya Mathis, the first wig designer to receive a special Tony Award, for Jocelyn Bioh’s Jaja’s African Hair Braiding. Nikiya takes us from doing her classmates’ hair as an acting student at NYU Tisch to designing Schoolgirls; or, The African Mean Girls Play on Broadway. She shares how her crews get actors salon ready in about five minutes, how she pulled off a full…
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