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Nicco Annan was working as a dancer, choreographer and stage actor without any major credits to his name when he was invited to audition for a role in future Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall‘s play Pussy Valley through a mutual friend. The role, a nonbinary, flamboyant strip-club owner named Uncle Clifford, would call upon Annan’s training in movement and theater as well as his own relationship with his queerness.
Annan, though, had to re-audition for the part when the play was adapted as the Starz series P-Valley. He won the role a second time, and in the show’s debut 2020 season, his character (who uses she/her pronouns) fought to maintain ownership of Mississippi strip club The Pynk while engaging in a tumultuous love affair with up-and-coming rapper Lil Murda. The portrayal garnered him Indie Spirit and NAACP noms. With P-Valley...
Nicco Annan was working as a dancer, choreographer and stage actor without any major credits to his name when he was invited to audition for a role in future Pulitzer Prize winner Katori Hall‘s play Pussy Valley through a mutual friend. The role, a nonbinary, flamboyant strip-club owner named Uncle Clifford, would call upon Annan’s training in movement and theater as well as his own relationship with his queerness.
Annan, though, had to re-audition for the part when the play was adapted as the Starz series P-Valley. He won the role a second time, and in the show’s debut 2020 season, his character (who uses she/her pronouns) fought to maintain ownership of Mississippi strip club The Pynk while engaging in a tumultuous love affair with up-and-coming rapper Lil Murda. The portrayal garnered him Indie Spirit and NAACP noms. With P-Valley...
- 6/13/2022
- by Hilton Dresden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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