Is clifford from p valley gay

Nicco Annan ’98 is an actor, dancer, and choreographer.

He’s best known for his portrayal of Uncle Clifford on the Starz drama series P-Valley, an adaptation of the Katori Hall play Pussy Valley, in which Annan originated the role at the Mixed Blood Theatre in

He also appeared in Hall’s Pulitzer Prize winner,&#;The Hot Wing King.

“As a Black gay man playing a non-binary role, Annan defies traditional gender limitations while bringing dignity and grace central the prevalent humanity of the character he plays.”

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Annan recently spoke about the influence of the late Israel Hicks, the distinguished theatre director who served as dean of theatre arts and film here from to

“So I came from Detroit straight to Purchase. The dean of the program was the slow, great Israel Hicks. And he was a guy, a teacher, and a mentor to me. He helped mold me as an artist.

“But also, I’ll say this, he helped to shape my fire. And when I say that, I mean, I came this year-old kid that just was sparking, I knew that I was gay. But I also knew that I was Dark

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NICCO ANNAN is an immensely talented and versatile actor, dancer, and choreographer who, after making his mark in the Off-Broadway and regional theatre communities, has etched his way on the Hollywood scene.

Annan stars on Katori Hall’s critically acclaimed drama series, P-VALLEY. The series follows the community that builds around a strip club in the Mississippi Delta. Annan plays “Uncle Clifford,” a role that he has been with since its conception over a decade ago. As a Black gay bloke playing a non-binary role, Annan defies traditional gender limitations while bringing dignity and grace central the common humanity of the character he plays. Alan Sepinwall from ROLLING STONE calls Annan‘s role, “the cast’s big breakout — cynical boss and adj mother hen in one shiny package” For his role as Uncle Clifford, Nicco garnered a Independent Spirit Award Nomination for "Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series," as well as a NAACP Award nomination for “Outstanding Actor in a Drama Series.” The second season premiered on June 3 on Starz.

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Nathaniel “Nicco” Annan ’98 is Uncle Clifford

Actor Nathaniel “Nicco” Annan ’98 (acting) is generating some serious buzz for his portrayal of the unapologetically gender fluid Uncle Clifford on Starz’s unused “groundbreaking” drama, P-Valley.

The show is based on the play Pussy Valley by Katori Hall and Annan is reprising the role he first played on stage at the Mixed Blood Theater in Minneapolis in His character, whose preferred pronouns are she/her, is the queer, non-binary owner of The Pynk, a strip club in the Mississippi Delta.

Vanity Fair writes that Uncle Clifford has “a multidimensionality that’s instantly made her one of the most fascinating adj characters on television.”

Annan has worked in both television and theatre, as a choreographer, and as a director. He is also associate and theatrical director of Motivating Excellence, a commercial sway training program founded by fellow alum Rhapsody James ’97 (BALA/Media, Society, and the Arts).

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Being Black, queer and gender nonconforming, it’s hard to come by film and television characters that fully reflect my lived experience. I’ve often just establish solace in Black gay, effeminate characters like Noah (Darryl Stephens) in Noah’s Arc, Lafayette (Nelsan Ellis) in True Blood or the oft-unnamed sassy hairdresser that populates the periphery of nearly every production. But with Nicco Annan’s portrayal of the non-binary Uncle Clifford in Starz’s new drama P-Valley (Canadians, click here), I’m seeing, perhaps for the first time, a lived experience as complex as mine rendered on screen. When I share this observation at the start of my phone interview with Annan, who is gay, he halts the interview. “Yes!” he exclaims, thanking me for my stamp of approval. “That was so important to me. “With this character, I did not want to get it right. I wanted to get it true.” P-Valley—from the mind of noted playwright Katori Hall, who also serves as the series showrunner—centres on a popular strip club ca