Nikita Waldron is an actor and writer with diasporic, mixed-race heritage (Indian and New Zealand). She is a graduate of the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA), graduating in 2017 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Acting. Her play Amber won the Australian Theatre for Young People (ATYP) Rebel Wilson Comedy Commission Award in 2021.

Nikita has been a participant in television writers rooms for Easy Tiger and Ante Productions led by showrunners Matt Cameron and Jeremy Sims. And has worked regularly as a note-taker since 2023 in writer rooms for Warner Bros., Hello Sunshine, Goalpost Pictures, Fremantle, Lingo, Soapbox Productions, Dreamchaser Entertainment, Wooden Horse TV, Matchbox, Easy Tiger and MadeUp Stories, for showrunners that include Sarah Lambert, Sarah Walker, Gretel Vella, Emme Hoy, Anya Beyersdorf, Dianne Taylor, Kier Wilkins and Kim Wilson. Amber premiered as part of The Old Fitz’s 2025 season and she is also developing the play as a TV series. In 2020, her play Falling was shortlisted for Playwriting Australia’s Max Afford Award.

Additionally, she has worked in theatre script developments for Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta, Griffin Theatre, Opera House, 25a Belvoir, NIDA and ATYP. Nikita has also created, written, produced and starred in the pilot episode of the web series Your Mates.

As an actor, her theatre credits include The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Rules for Living, Lord of the Flies and Mosquitoes at Sydney Theatre Company, The Wolves and An Enemy of the People at Belvoir St Theatre, girlfriend at Belvoir’s 25a, Girls in Boys’ Cars at Riverside’s National Theatre of Parramatta and Youth & Destination at KXT for Manifesto Theatre Company. Select film and TV credits include He Had it Coming for Stan, Palm Beach, Top End Wedding, Home and Away, Random & Whacky and The Letdown (Season 2).