1993: Appino produces, co-writes and co-directs the play Subrosa. This theater piece garnered national acclaim and continues to be cited as a landmark for contemporary theater in Seattle.

1995: House of Dames develops and produces the short films threshold and Thibadeaux Sally, which played to festival audiences in Seattle, San Francisco, and New York City.

“In its wild, irreverent and breathless way, Subrosa sprang from the same impulse as Plato’s Symposium.” Roger Downey, American Theatre Magazine

1997: Appino creates and co-produces Djinn, a multimedia event adapted from Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel of the same name. The production, which was performed in a 25,000-square-foot warehouse on the decommissioned Sand Point Naval Base in Seattle, was described by American Theater Magazine as having “a power far beyond words."

“Djnn is a richly theatrical exploration of space, time and consciousness. Director Appino and her collaborators have concocted an incredibly haunting and thrilling theater event. Djinn is replete with theatrical ingenuity.” Jeffrey Eric Jenkins , Seattle Post Intelligencer

1998-1999: House of Dames produces Appino’s play Lazarus and Dark Night of the Soul for the Northwest New Works Series.

2000: House of Dames returns to Sand Point Naval Base with Rain City Rollers, a musical performed on roller skates conceived and directed by Appino.

“If director Nikki Appino should ever decide to abandon the theater, she could make a lot of money coordinating and subverting such Dome-sized spectacles as monster-truck rallies, rock concerts, and wrestling matches. If you doubt me, you haven’t seen Rain City Rollers.” John Longenbaugh, Seattle Weekly

2002: Appino’s Invisible Ink: Destiny and the Dance of Mata Hari premiers at Seattle’s On the Boards Contemporary Performing Arts Center.

2003: The world premiere of Appino’s Before the Comet Comes at the Empty Space Theatre, in Seattle.

[Before the Comet Comes]…is textually dynamic, and rooted in the experiences of real people. Pervious productions have earned [Appino] a reputation for being a pioneer of impassioned performance that speaks volumes about the human experience, not just ideas.” David Perez, Tablet

2004: Nikki directs and produces a national tour of singer-songwriter and composer Robin Holcomb's O, Say a Sunset, a multimedia stage show based on the life and letters of environmentalist Rachael Carson.

Nikki closes House of Dames and starts Appino Productions, an independent company based in New York City.

“Each of writer-director Appino’s pieces has had its own singular style. But running through much of her original work, from the visually grand Djinn to the more intimate Invisible Ink and Before the Comet Comes are the currents of melancholy, humor and a human-scale approach to epic subjects.” Misha Berson, Seattle Times

2005: Appino produces and directs White Tara, a one-hour film documenting a lecture by Gelek Rimpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist lama

2007: Appino Productions begins preproduction on The Great American Rodeo, a feature-length documentary about the lives of four rodeo riders.

2008: Appino collaborates with composer Philip Glass on American Rimpoche, a documentary about the life of Gelek Rimpoche and the coming of Tibetan Buddhism to the West.

Today: Nikki is presently a freelance film and television producer whose clients range from major media outlets such as Discovery and TLC, to the companies Original Productions and LifeMed Media.

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