Nicole Darden Creston
All Things Considered Host & ReporterNicole came to Central Florida to attend Rollins College and started working for Orlando’s ABC News Radio affiliate shortly after graduation. She joined Central Florida Public Media in 2010. As a field reporter, news anchor and radio show host in the City Beautiful, she has covered everything from local arts to national elections, from extraordinary hurricanes to historic space flights, from the people and procedures of Florida’s justice system to the changing face of the state’s economy. When local issues have received international attention, Nicole has reported worldwide for TV news outlets such as CNN, HLN, ABC, Fox News Channel, and BBC News 24.
When she’s off duty, Nicole can often be found performing with one of Central Florida’s many theatre companies, or taking in local arts, culture and music.
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The city of Orlando turns 150 years old in July and a celebration is underway in the form of an exhibit at the Orlando County Regional History Center, Orlando Collected. -
In the midst of arts and cultural funding cuts, we talk to the head of Chance2Dance, Florida's first sensory-friendly dance school, about serving special-needs students. -
The final weekend of the event takes over the Doctor Phillips Center for the Performing Arts with offerings from visual arts to traditional theater to tech-driven surprises. -
A community event by the Alianza Center aims to share the magic of movies with multilingual families. The TheaterEars app syncs the Spanish version of a movie to an English one in real time. -
Jen Smedley and Kristin Hensley, the comedy duo #IMOMSOHARD, say it all started when a sleep-deprived Smedley forgot her newborn’s name in a relatable viral video moment. -
The 66th annual Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is this weekend. The outdoor festival regularly draws a lot of attention from the art world, as well as hundreds of thousands of attendees every year. -
The Downtown Arts District is unveiling its final installations in a long-running program that brings art into empty storefronts in the downtown area. -
“Fences” by legendary playwright August Wilson is opening at the Ritz Theatre in Sanford. The Pulitzer Prize-winning show speaks to a family's experiences in 1950s America. -
Orlando Ballet’s production of Peter Pan is flying into the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. That flying is literal - some of this ballet happens in the air! -
After a two-year hiatus, Immerse will once again close the streets of downtown Orlando next weekend, and fill the whole area with interactive arts experiences of all kinds.
