Nicole Ansari Cox
CEO, Actors Rising
Nicole Ansari Cox (she/her) is a tri- lingual, internationally working actor, director, writer, and producer of TV, film, and theatre – and also uses her platform to raise awareness about climate change and human rights abuses. She has won several awards, including best director for the web series “Messy” at the British Web Awards and the Socially Relevant Film Festival; AFI Best Ensemble for the Civil Rights movie “Son of the South”; The Vanya Exerjian Award for empowering women; and Person of the Year by My New York Magazine for raising awareness for the woman, life, and freedom movement. She is currently working on the NY version of a show she created a few years ago in upstate NY and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival titled “She/ her.”