With a gift for championing artists, Nicole Disson is a producer specializing in art-infused film, cross-genre works of live and immersive performance, and groundbreaking television.
Most recently, Disson worked in development as manager of operations at Viva Maude, a film and TV production company founded by actress and producer Tessa Thompson. From the time of the company’s launch in 2021, Disson worked alongside Thompson and her producing partner, Kishori Rajan, to develop a film and television slate of over twenty projects with some of the most visionary artists of our time. Projects of note include the global hit Netflix limited series HIS & HERS, which was the most streamed show in the world for over a month, as well as Aleshea Harris's critically acclaimed feature film IS GOD IS, released in theaters nationwide via Amazon/Orion Pictures, for which Disson served as an Associate Producer.
Disson has produced projects for a wide range of creative makers, including Mike Mills, Zoe Cassavetes, Alma Har’el, Benjamin Millepied, Lita Albuquerque, Quentin Dupieux, Isaiah Seret, Orville Peck, Aurelie Saada, Raine Allen-Miller, Ariana Delawari, Berénice Eveno and Mariana Blanco. Disson has produced works for VOGUE, Free The Work, L.A. Dance Project, The Getty Museum, Laguna Art Museum, American Red Cross, Mercedes-Benz, Spotify, Saatchi Art, Delvaux, and NOWNESS. Films Disson has produced have screened at SXSW, Marfa Film Festival (opening night), Cleveland Film Festival, Brooklyn Short Film Festival, and Boston International Film Festival, among others. Disson produced JUNIOR, a web-series directed by Zoe Cassavetes, which was nominated for the Gotham Award for best short form series.
In 2009, Disson created THE SERIES, a monthly immersive art event that brought artists together to create new works of multi-disciplinary collaboration. This regular series of site-specific performances lasted for six years, and featured artists including HAIM, L.A. Dance Project, Nina McNeely, IO ECHO, Mia Doi Todd, Harper Simon, Aaron Rose, Alexander Kori Girard, Jacqueline Suskin, Mandy Kahn, Jenny O., TEARIST, Alia Penner, Henry Wolfe, Zoe Aja Moore, Elena Stonaker, Buckley, America Martin, Dave Shook, Hysterica Dance Co., Isabelle Albuquerque, Jasmine Albuquerque Croissant, Jason Ritter, L.A. Contemporary Dance Company, Opera Del Espacio, Jena Malone, Poor Dog Group,; it originally took place at the Standard Hotel DTLA, but later moved to the Ace Hotel.
In addition to being a producer, Disson is also an actor; she played Elizabeth Moss' spouse in Brandi Carlile’s video “Party Of One,” and has acted in live productions that appeared at LACMA, REDCAT, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre, B ST, Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center, Kennedy Center Source Theatre Workshop, Boston Court, Open Fist (including the world premiere of Frank Zappa’s rock opera JOE'S GARAGE) and Soho House West Hollywood (featured performer New Years Eve). Disson received a B.F.A. in Acting from Florida State University, was a founding member of the LA Ladies Choir, and was an apprentice to actress and dancer Ann Reinking.