Nilan is a performer, creator, and arts leader. He serves as the Associate Artistic Director of The Drama League of New York. He is a founder of the creative content production company A Certain Something (ACS). Check out ACS's Alone in Place series now streaming. His plays include 

A Rock and a Hard Place, Endangered Species, FOLKtales, & others. He is an alumnus of The Bay Area Playwright Festival, The Orchard Project, New York Shakespeare Exchange's Diversity Cohort, and more. His work has been seen nationally/internationally at theaters and film festivals as the Harlem International Film Festival, PlayMakers Repertory, Downtown Art, Playback Berlin, Madrid International Film Festival (nominated for Best Lead Actor in a Short Film), 48 Hours in Harlem, and more. Selected directing credits Friable (13th St. Repertory, received the Take Ten Best Play award), A Holy Her (The Parsnip Ship). He is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA. acertainsomething.org