{"id":2071,"date":"2018-07-08T10:37:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T10:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.harutheme.com\/formota\/?page_id=2071"},"modified":"2026-04-20T14:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T19:16:09","slug":"home-10","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/?page_id=2071","title":{"rendered":"Media &#038; Resume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_id=&#8221;director-slideshow&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776660811422{border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_inner][rev_slider_vc alias=&#8221;home-10&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; el_id=&#8221;director-introduce&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776661403685{border-top-width: 50px !important;border-bottom-width: 50px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776656480806{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3675&#8243; img_size=&#8221;Large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_border&#8221; border_color=&#8221;black&#8221; onclick=&#8221;zoom&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776661506994{padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;director-introduce&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;secondary-font fs-18 heading-color&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">BIO:\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #333333;\">\u00a0 Nikoli Smith is an aspiring actor and singer graduating from the University of Georgia with a B.A. in Theatre, an emphasis in Acting, Musical Theatre Certificate, and a Terry College of Business Certificate in Entrepreneurship\/Startups. Nikoli is passionate about a wide variety of performing arts, and he has experience in Live Theatre, Live Music, TV\/Film Acting, and Dance performance. Nikoli advocates for art\u2019s ability to reach others and its power to change the world one performer\/audience member at a time. Due to this, he strives to support the arts in all capacities that he can, whether he is utilizing his 4 years of Stage carpentry\/stage hand experience to support a show behind the scenes, his education &amp; practical experience of managing budgets and startups within the theatre space to aid the production process, or to be on stage performing himself, he hopes that he can inspire others to explore what connect us all in the human experience. He believes that in today\u2019s day it is more important than ever to unify people around a vision for a more vibrant and prosperous future.\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0 \u00a0Additionally to his goals for a future in the arts, he has gained practical performance experience with UGA Theatre\u2019s season shows in his role as Frid\/Fredrik U\/S in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Little Night Music <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dir. Daniel Ellis), Eilif in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mother Courage and Her Children <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dir. Justin Anderson), Zach in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">First Semester the Musical <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dir. Bianca Cardona)<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and Terrance in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Finest Hour <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dir. Ariel Ford). He also has performed with the Dessert Theatre where he played Link Larkin in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hairspray <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Dir. Kennedi Nichols), with Ars Gratia Artis in several of their shows such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">No Exit<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he played Cradeau (Dir. Nina Blair\/Alex Hutchason) and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Feminine Ending <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">where he played Billy (Dir. Ariel Ford), and with UGA\u2019s Curo Research Grant production of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabbit Hole<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> where he played Jason (Dir. Jillian Mitchel). Along with his experience performing in Plays\/Musicals, Nikoli is the lead singer and rhythm guitar player for the successful Athens band <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Flatline Drive<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that went on to tour southeastern college towns, close major music festivals such as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Athfest 2025, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and play notable historic Athens Music venues such as the <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40 Watt Club.<\/span><\/i><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][vc_column][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3670&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1024&#215;1440&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3668&#8243; img_size=&#8221;1024&#215;1440&#8243; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; el_id=&#8221;director-slideshow&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776660811422{border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column][vc_row_inner equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_column_inner][rev_slider_vc alias=&#8221;home-10&#8243;][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=&#8221;stretch_row_content_no_spaces&#8221; full_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; equal_height=&#8221;yes&#8221; content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221; el_id=&#8221;director-introduce&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776661403685{border-top-width: 50px !important;border-bottom-width: 50px !important;border-radius: 10px !important;border-color: #000000 !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776656480806{background-position: center !important;background-repeat: no-repeat !important;background-size: cover !important;}&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;3675&#8243; img_size=&#8221;Large&#8221; alignment=&#8221;center&#8221; style=&#8221;vc_box_border&#8221; border_color=&#8221;black&#8221; onclick=&#8221;zoom&#8221; css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1776661506994{padding-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243; el_class=&#8221;director-introduce&#8221;][vc_row_inner content_placement=&#8221;middle&#8221;][vc_column_inner][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221; el_class=&#8221;secondary-font fs-18 heading-color&#8221;] BIO:\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 Nikoli Smith is an aspiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2071","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","clearfix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2071\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nikolismith.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}