About Nikki O.
Had a great Publicist and other mentors along the way. Would I have done it differently? Jury's still out on that one.
2017 to present day 2025
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Produced and edited all three Tilden books with AI technology into audio with illustrations to pitch for larger production companies. Published chapter by chapter are free to watch on YouTube @
Busy with Intense research for two new planned screenplays. Not naming them as yet until I have a good entertainment attorney to protect my work.
2008 - 2016: Edited and revised, 2 volumes of John Bigelow's, "The Life of Sameul J. Tilden" - 600 pages - Book Press Party held at Samuel Tilden's Gramercy Park mansion.
December 2006: Published 1st book adapted from my "Tilden 1997 screenplay.
"Samuel Tilden the Real 19th President" released December 2006 - completed, published. 288 pages. Book debut at Book Expo America.
2006 - 2007: Part Two - full hard copy version- "Samuel Tilden, the Real 19th President"
2003 - 2004 Two projects under re-write and ongoing creations of Web sites. Also worked PR Outreach for documentary film-maker - WMD - Weapons of Mass Deception, NYC -Danny Schecter, Producer
2002 - James Dew - Guilford CT and Stone House Restaurant. Produced Local Commercials - WTNH - Director David Baltimore.
2002: Acquired Real Estate License. Bread and butter job.
2000 - Nikki for U.S. Senate commercial - Wrote Script and Produced with Edit Works, Orlando, FL - by far the dumbest thing I ever did was run for office. :)
1997: Learned to build websites. Still maintain them for self and other clients.
1992, 1993 - 2000 - 2004 - Co-managed by invitation - VIP Backstage Hair & Makeup Room for DNC & 1993 Clinton Inaugural
1996: Wrote treatment for film titled, "Diamoruff" Drama about blood diamonds in Africa. Also hosted a local cable show in Sarasota FL.
1994 - 2004 -Script and Research and continual study for "Tilden"
screenplay about Samuel Tilden's stolen election of 1876.
Director, Dominic Palmer - Mash Series, Don Tweedy, Original score, Century III Universal Studios.
1992 - 1995 - "Nikki Morgan Show" - Produced and Hosted Local TV show about entertainers and popular politicians in area events. CTV New Haven and WFAC Fairfield County areas.
1995: Produced short presentation videos for Special Olympics and Hartford Tourism Revitalization project.
1991 - 1992 - "Without the Law" - Screenplay - Dramedy comedy screenplay about the takedown of the IRS.
A dramedy is a movie or program that balances the elements of a drama and a comedy.
1984 - 1991 "Hot Air" - Sit com presentation written, directed and produced about a hair salon, later re-named, "Hair Biz" -
1992 - "Hair Biz" presentation sit com as a pilot and was produced half hour in working salon I owned with the assistance of Media Arts Center, New Haven, CT. Was offered a $5,000 grant to produce more shows and refused the offer knowing the state of CT was in financial trouble.
1984: Wrote script about toys coming to life in a young girls room. Foolishly handed it off to an Entertainment attorney who had no experience with Hollywood.
1980 - Produced a live Disco dance show at Yesterdays in Shelton, CT... Talent: DJ Wilie Travali and all the popular disco dancers from a popular night club in Hamden, CT. Used hairstyles to promote salon I owned, "Talk of the Town".. The live show was well received. Follow up was multiple offers from other nightclubs. My decision was to move to New York City to pursue and learn how to write scripts and produce TV professionally.
Met and traveled across country with a top of the Billboard charts hit band learning every detail of live stage concerts productions and how unions control it all.
HARTFORD COURANT - JAN 12, 1993
MILFORD HAIR STYLIST MAKES THE CUT; SHE’LL GO TO INAUGURAL
When Nikki Oldaker asks senators and governors attending next week’s presidential inaugural whether they favor the right or the left, it will have nothing to do with politics.
She’ll be asking how they want their hair parted.
Oldaker, 40, who owns the Hair Biz salon in Milford, will be among an elite team of hairstylists providing free haircuts and stylings to the nation’s political, entertainment and media celebrities, who will want to look their best for the Washington, D.C., festivities surrounding the Jan. 20 presidential inauguration.
“It’s a real feather in my cap,” Oldaker said of the opportunity to work with five other stylists — or, perhaps, tonsorial consultants — from all over the country, including Beverly Hills, Little Rock and Chicago. Oldaker, who has been cutting and styling hair for 22 years, is the only woman in the select group.
She will be working during inaugural week at the Georgetown salon of Robin Weir, who provided styling services to former First Lady Nancy Reagan and is described in a press release as “a powerhouse hairstylist.” Only in Washington.
Oldaker said the inauguration tour of duty is an outgrowth of her work at last summer’s Democratic National Convention in New York, where she was one of a team of hairstylists providing free haircuts and touch-ups to politicians and television correspondents inside Madison Square Garden.
A friend, Norma A. Lee, who works in public relations in New York, arranged for Oldaker to work at the convention. Oldaker and Lee had worked together to develop a situation comedy about the hairstyling business, called “Hair Biz.” Oldaker is still trying to sell it.
Among the political heavyweights who entrusted their appearances to Oldaker at the convention were: former President Jimmy Carter, former presidential candidate Jesse L. Jackson, U.S. Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, D-Conn., U.S. Sen.-elect Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., and Kentucky Gov. Brereton C. Jones.
“I was sprucing up everybody who was going out on the air,”
Oldaker said. She said she enjoyed talking to the politicians, but steered clear of politics.
Oldaker said she and Lieberman hit it off, and that the senator, who has a home in New Haven, and his wife, Hadassah, have become regular customers.
Perhaps it was Lieberman’s friendship with Clinton or maybe it was the euphoria of the convention, but the experience in New York made a big political impression on Oldaker.
“I was always a Republican. But I voted for Clinton,” Oldaker said.
When Lee asked Oldaker before the election whether she would be interested in providing hairstyling services before the inauguration, she said that she would go only if Clinton won.
And, after adding a little luster to all the political stars, Oldaker plans to get gussied up herself for the inauguration and accompanying parties, relying on the expertise of her fellow hairstylists.
“Cinderella’s going to work,” she said, “And then Cinderella’s going to the ball.”
Originally Published: January 12, 1993 at 5:00 AM EST
