HERstory
Acting
Acting is Nia's therapy. She finds it soul-opening to use her body and mind as an instrument to perform the art. To shed layers of her filters to release whatever the character is expressing is like lifting a weight off her shoulders.
Nia's acting ability scored her a spot in the Norwalk Conservatory of Arts rigorous 2022 Summer Pre-College Intensive in Norwalk, Connecticut. There, she performed and studied voice-over at a Netflix recording studio (The Underground at SoNo Recording Studios), earned callbacks from New York agents, exploring her craft with 14 other actors from across the country.
Nia majored in musical theater & contemporary dance at her performing arts middle school. Eventually landing a spot in her high school's Shuler award-winning theater Academy. Attending the theater department shortly after alumni such as Ramone Nelson (MJ The Musical) and D'Kaylah Unique Whitley (Dear Even Hansen), both now Broadway actors, graduated.
Nia was an active student at XXI Century Entertainment acting school. Earning her first agent & taking classes with established industry professionals such as Rhayven Drummer and the J Pervis sisters.
Upbringing
Nia Faith was born in Columbia, Missouri. She took gymnastics & dance classes that she liked but felt like an outcast. She was known for being timid in public as a kid. Nia has since learned that she wasn't quiet because she was shy; she didn't care to be so vulnerable. That was until she started acting.
Nia had the most fun in front of her grandmother's camera, where she would record online diaries telling stories, dancing, and speaking to the screen. She didn't feel like she had to conform to any curriculum, she could be her own definition of expressive. Using the camera as her friend, audience, and escape.
Capturing her endless emotions on camera flooded Nia with joy, because of how freeing it felt to release whatever her mind wondered.
Nia was so awed by the film industry that she did a 1st-grade presentation on how she wanted to be a multi-tasking storyteller like Tyler Perry.
After begging her mom to allow her to post videos online, Nia eventually grew a small community of other tween girls across the web.
Her family moved to Georgia, where she won state titles in competitions such as Georgia Student Technology Fair & Georgia Student Media Festival for film production. Nia learned to keep her eye on the prize, so she focused on her dream of being an on-screen actress.
When she's not in front of the camera..
Nia spent the 1st quarter of 2022 selected as 1 of 10 girls out of hundreds across the country to be a Teen Director in Black Girls Film Camp, sponsored by the University of Southern California.
Nia also gets behind-the-scenes experience by working as a Production Assistant on local films when she is not acting.
