Actor

Candace
Nicholas-Lippman

(she/her)

Candace Nicholas-Lippman is an actress, playwright, poet, and teaching artist whose autobiographical solo show, A Rose Called Candace, earned her the 2026 NAACP Theatre Award for Best Playwright. Selected stage credits include Snow White, Fat Ham, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play), and understudying Head of Passes at the Mark Taper Forum. Her solo show premiered in Los Angeles, played Off-Broadway, and returned to Los Angeles in 2025 in collaboration with JuVee Productions, founded by Viola Davis and Julius Tennon. The solo show is also available as an audiobook. Her television credits include Blindspotting (STARZ), Good Trouble (Freeform), and Grey’s Anatomy (ABC). Candace is also a spoken word artist and published poet whose work explores identity, faith, family, healing, and freedom. She is thrilled to make her Geffen Playhouse debut with Purpose and is deeply grateful to God and everyone who continues to support her artistic journey.