Today we’d like to introduce you to Nikki Lowe.
Hi Nikki, can you start by introducing yourself? We’d love to learn more about how you got to where you are today.
I am an artist born into a family of First Responders here in Miami. Being of service to one’s community is ingrained in me. It might even be the family motto since my sisters all grew up to be nurses and firefighters; But I have always been the pattern breaker, the exception. I wrote in my journal once when I was very young, ” A lot of kids are going to change their minds about what they want to be when they grow up… NOT ME. I want to be an actress.” Of course, I butchered the spelling of the word ‘actress,’ but other than that I was right.
I took my first acting class when I was five years old at our neighborhood theater in Miami Shores- the same theater where I landed my first professional acting job some 20 years later. It’s where I trained, cut my teeth, and worked up the guts to move to New York City and be a comedian. You see, I had secretly been collecting material since childhood (My mom was a fingerprint detective for Miami Dade Police, I called her… CSI MY Mommy.)
In NYC, I was finally able to step through the wall of self-doubt that kept me from showing up to open mic nights. I found my voice, doing standup and improv, and eventually took my solo comedy show, Nongenue to Edinburgh Fringe before joining the cast of Magic Mike Live. I am honored to begin this journey back on the same beaches where I first learned to be brave, and lucky to have the support of my family in South Florida. They have helped me overcome so many of the obstacles that could have held me back.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall, and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The biggest challenge I face right now is living and creating in a world full of “You’re beautiful but…’s” – not to be confused with your beautiful butt (a difficult distinction I know because mine too is often an obstacle, especially when attempting to squeeze through tight spaces) but I digress. I’ve encountered a lot of “You’re beautiful but’s” in the entertainment industry were outdated ideas of size and worthiness color people’s opinions. ‘You’re beautiful but… you’re just not a leading lady’ or ‘You’re beautiful but… I was so surprised to see a big girl hosting Magic Mike Live’. It’s sometimes challenging to hear that the mere act of living my dream is the exception to someone’s limited perception of beauty. My mind argues I shouldn’t have to be the exception to the rule when the rule isn’t real in the first place. My heart has grown to embrace this as part of my story and my calling: Serving audiences ‘beautiful and.’ I’m both beautiful and bold, beautiful and busty, beautiful and funny.
We all have a different way of looking at and defining success. How do you define success?
Success isn’t about “making it” so to speak, because each new creative endeavor is just a level up, an opportunity for more truth, more me. I get to answer the question “why am I the one who gets to tell this story right now?” And hope that other people experience a deeper part of themselves in my answer. That’s the most magic part of this current gig at Magic Mike Live. I get to stand as the example of the show’s message: that we are all inherently worthy of what we want and brave enough to ask for it. It’s healing for people to see that embodied on stage, and to me, it’s the only real way to measure success. I think as long as somebody is healing, I must be doing something right.
Pricing:
- Tickets starting at $49
Contact Info:
- Website: MMLTour.com
- Instagram: @NikkiAllTheTime // @MMLTour
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicmikelivetour
- Twitter: /mmltour
