AR NICHOLAS (film and theatre maker)
2912 NE 12TH Avenue
Portland, OR 97212
HONORS/AWARDS
WINNER Cascades 10 (The Voice in my Head) 2020 WINNER Playfest Santa Barbara (Out There Right Here ) 2019 WINNER Caltech Mach 33 Science Play Prize (Out There Right Here ) 2018 Development Lab (MsRememberment ) CoHo Theatre/Portland OR 2018
Finalist (The One You Feed ) Finalist (Ocotillo )
Finalist (Ocotillo )
Finalist (Ocotillo )
Finalist (Ocotillo )
Finalist (The One You Feed ) Finalist (Out There Right Here ) Finalist (Ocotillo )
WINNER (Univers'l)
Nominated (The Big Bowling Ball)
SELECTED SCREENPLAYS
Old Ladies Find Money
Big Bang Theory (feature) Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All! (in post-production) Univers'l
The Big Bowling Ball (short) Swimming (short)
Rider (short)
SELECTED PLAYS – FULL LENGTH
Out There Right Here MsRememberment (Girl v Troll)
The One You Feed Ocotillo
Villa Thrilla Lu/Lou
The Beaver Suite I Love Paris Incunabula
SELECTED PRODUCED SHORT PLAYS
My Knee Hurts Buddha Belly
Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation 2018 Ebell 2016 Susan Glaspell Prize 2016 Route 66 2016 Centenary Stages 2015 The Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship 2016 Portland Civic Theatre Guild 2017 Portland Civic Theatre Guild 2018 Film Festival of Human Rights, Brussels 1997 Academy Award, Best live-action short 1995
Writer/Director (in pre-production) 2020 Winner, Santa Barbara Screenwriting Award 2004
Writer/Director (produced) 2000 Writer/Director (produced) 1997 Writer, MJ McDonnel, Director (produced) 1995 Writer, Darius Mackenzie, Director (produced) 2018 Writer, Gerard Hameline, Director (produced) 1995
Reading, Playfest Santa Barbara 2019 Reading, Pasadena Playhouse 2018 Developmental lab/Reading, CoHo Theatre 2018 Reading, Last Frontier Conference 2019 Reading, Dennis & Victoria Ross Foundation 2018 Reading, Inge Fest 2017 Reading, EST/LA 2016 Production, Atwater Village Theatre 2015 Production, Dorothy Lyman’s Lex Theatre 1990 Production, Friends & Artists Theatre 1994 Production, Portland Women’s Theatre 1998 Production, LA Theatre Works, available on Audible 1993
Sacred Fools Theatre, We The People 2018 Fertile Ground Festival, Portland 2017
323/627-6659 bournosmedia@gmail.com www.arnicholas.com
Petting Zoo Story
Our Dark Connection The Elegant Dinner
INSTITUTIONAL EDUCATION
Primary Stages ESPA 2016 NY Shorts Festival 2016 Odyssey Theatre, LA (commissioned) 2013 Odyssey Theatre, LA (commissioned) 2013
Mills College, Oakland, CA - B.A. Music
Cardozo Law School - NY, NY - JD
UCLA, LA, CA - Certificate in Writing
Primary Stages/ESPA - NY, NY - Playwriting
Dramatists Guild Institute- NY, NY - Certificate in Playwriting
Theatrical and Film Producing credits:
Theatre: Melinda Lopez’ Mala for CoHo Theatre, Portland 2019; Tom Jacobson’s Captain of the Bible Quiz Team for Rogue Machine Theatre; Villa Thrilla, at Atwater Village Theatres, LA; The Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative Swan Day
Film: Univers'l, The Big Bowling Ball, Famous Agoraphobic Woman Tells All!, The Box
Related: Adjunct Screenwriting Professor at the University of Oregon (late 1990s), The Ojai Playwrights Conference (former Managing Director and dramaturg). Filmmaker (writer/director of feature film, Univers'l ). Actor,. Novelist (THE MUFFIA series, HOMEGROWN: THE TERROR WITHIN (as Cialan Haasnic)
Organizations/volunteer:
Core writing and acting member EST/LA. Company member Rogue Machine, Circle X, The Victory, Odyssey and Sacred Fools Theatre companies. Writer/performer Night Bus Sketch Team (Portland). Member and blogger for the Los Angeles Female Playwrights Initiative and proud member of The Dramatists Guild, RWA Published Authors Network, SAG/AFTRA and Actors Equity Associations. Board member of The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble. Volunteer community mediator
References and full lists of publications and plays available upon request Social Networks @aroyaln