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Nikia Mathis

Nikia Mathis

Tony Award-winning hair and wig designer for Broadway productions including "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" and "Cats: The Jellicle Ball"

Jun 3, 2026

12:42
Mm-hmm.
12:42
And I pretty much wanted to allow Queen to really, to, to make sure that Queen's vision was being achieved here.
12:51
So like, for instance, with Old Deuteronomy, so we start the conversation with Queen, then I have a consultation with, um, uh, Andre De Shields.
12:59
So the other thing about that is I'm, I also started my journey, um, because I'm also an actor.
13:06
So what I found in the, um-In the acting space is sometimes I would get, um, [smacks lips] you know, wigs would be put on me and no one had, you know, asked, like, what was going on with my hair.
13:18
And then what also happened is I would have friends who, um, needed their hair done for shows because sometimes there weren't people who could, like, support them with natural hair.

8 MINS LATER

21:52
How does that affect how you're gonna, like, place a wig, like, using wig glue, like, deciding what you're gonna do?
21:58
Yeah.

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