Nicole Goodwin is a veteran, author, performance artist, and award-winning poet. Her book Warcries is a collection of poems inspired by her experiences in combat theatre. She is a 2013-2014 Queer Art Mentorship Queer Art Literary Fellow, and the winner of The Fresh Fruit Festival’s 2013 Award for Performance Poetry. Her articles “Talking with My Daughter…” and “Why is this Happening in Your Life…” (Personal essay/Review for award-winning documentary Tough Love) was featured in the New York Times’ parent blog Motherlode. Nicole’s play Desert Flowers was shortlisted and selected for performance by the Women Playwriting International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work has been featured in multiple years of Poetic Theater Productions’ Love Redefined.
With Poetic Theater Productions:
Featured Artist in Judson Arts Wednesdays’ BAILOUT Theatre Featuring Poetic Theater Productions
Featured Veteran Artist reading her original poetry in a special Veteran Voices 2017 event before the Friday October 13, 2017 performance of Outside Paducah: The Wars At Home.
Previously with Poetic Theater Productions:
Poet and Reader for the Poetic Theater Productions “Presents…” Series 2012 and 2013.
Co-Playwright and Performer in From Table to Stage in Poetic License 2012
Writer and Performer in Love, Redefined 2013, 2015, 2016, 2019
Co-Playwright for reading of Ideals At War: Love in Poetic License 2013
Presenting Artist in Breaking Our Silence 2014 in Poetic License 2014