Nikki Taylor-Roberts is an Emmy-nominated, NAACP Image Award winning director and screenwriter. She’s a writer-director who blends emotional realism with elevated cinematic storytelling and commands a lyricism in her work.

She’s an episodic director with episodes on NBC’s Chicago Med, Paramount’s The Waiting Room, She is a writer-director in the inaugural cohort for Proof of Concept, the Cate Blanchett–founded studio incubator positioning female and non-binary filmmakers for large scale prestige filmmaking.

Her Hulu/20th Studio film GO TO BED RAYMOND, was named among the top five list for New York Times Best for 2023 and screened at MoMA. She was in the first cohort of directors for HBO’s reboot of Project Greenlight, produced by Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani.

She’s an alum of the DGA DDI Mentorship was mentored by Geoff Shotz, NBCU LAUNCH TV Directors Program, the Ryan Murphy's Half initiative, Almanack Screenwriters, and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

Outside of the narrative space she worked in brand creative — writing, directing and producing ads for NBCUni, VH1, and BET. She’s also produced many live shows — most notably the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade and Macy’s July 4th Spectacular.

She an alum of Northwestern University and Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Film Program.