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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“Let the People Sing” is a documentary drama focused on Zora Neale Hurston and based on historical records, letters, and playbills found in Rollins archives. -
The LGBTQ Center of Orlando is holding its first-ever QFEST, a four-day theater and film festival focused around Central Florida’s queer artists, performers and stories. -
Cassadaga is the ghost-story capital of Central Florida, so what better place than the century-old hotel in the center of town for a Halloween haunted house? -
Central Florida is joining the 50th anniversary celebrations of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Orlando performer Jaimz Dillman has devised an unique cabaret-style show. -
Sleuths started as a mom-and-pop dinner show shop with one room in 1990 and grew into a three-theater institution offering stages full of “murder, mystery and mayhem” in Orlando’s International Drive entertainment district. -
Thousands of people gathered peacefully outside Orlando’s City Hall for Saturday’s No Kings protest. Dancing inflatable unicorns, chickens, and frogs shared space with sober concerns about the future. -
The 21st annual Come Out With Pride parade and festival is this weekend in downtown Orlando. The theme is We The People, as the LGBTQ+ community faces some legislative changes. -
Orlando has a new poet laureate. Camara Gaither is an author, and an award-winning spoken word artist who works in the space between poetry and mental health. -
The 3rd annual Orlando Latino Fest is coming to town with a variety of music, food, art exhibits, and local small businesses to mark Hispanic Heritage Month. -
Orlando’s Victorian-style horror troupe Phantasmagoria has teamed up with the estate of the darkly whimsical author Edward Gorey to perform some of Gorey’s tales.
