Nikki Taylor-Roberts is a screenwriter, director, and an Emmy-nominated producer.

She is a director in PROOF OF CONCEPT — a feature film directing incubator that helps directors craft their careers created by Cate Blanchett’s Dirty Films and underwritten by Netflix. Nikki is a protégé in the DGA DDI Mentorship. She’s an episodic TV director and has directed on NBC/Dick Wolf show, CHICAGO MED. Her film, GO TO BED RAYMOND, for 20th Digital Studio’s Bite Size Halloween on Hulu, was a critic favorite in a New York Times Best 2023 Films | ‘Five Horror Movies to Stream Now’. This same film played in FOFIF’s 2nd annual MoMA screening series. She was one of the filmmakers selected for of HBO reboot of Project Greenlight produced by Issa Rea and Kumail Nanjiani. Her work has played in competitions at Festival de Cannes, Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Sundance, Austin Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, HolyShorts, and UrbanWorld.

Nikki got her professional start in commercials and music videos in the early 2000s. Outside of the narrative space she worked in brand creative — writing, directing and producing content 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’s an alum of the NBCU LAUNCH TV Directors Program | Female Forward, the Ryan Murphy's Half initiative, Almanack Screenwriters (formerly known as Nantucket Screenwriters Colony), and the AFI Directing Workshop for Women.

She graduated from Northwestern University's RTVF Program and Columbia University School of the Arts MFA Film Program.