WHAT WAS YOUR BEST / WORST TIME WITH WHISKEY?
After failing to get a callback for my first choice (and due to poor planning, ONLY choice that year) grad school, I drowned my sorrows at a friend's birthday party. Beer and whiskey and God-knows-what-else flowed aplenty. I know from later photographic evidence that I spent some portion of that night in a tree, followed by a nap in a bathtub. Miraculously, I woke up on a couch, dusted myself off, and got home to shower and get out the door in time to catch a bus for a choir tour, the majority of which I spent hungover.
WHAT WAS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUS DREAM YOU HAD FOR YOUR LIFE?
I wanted to be some amalgam of Clarence Darrow and Atticus Finch, until two critical things happened: 1) I got paid for singing opera as an undergrad, and 2) I learned from friends a year or two older than me that law school is awful.
WHEN LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO LIVE AFTER THE APOCALYPSE, WHAT MAKES WILLIAMSBURG SO APPEALING?
After the Apocalypse, shaving was abandoned as a relic of a decadent, extinct era. Men's social standing was reflected in their facial hair. The grooming and maintenance of beards became one of the highest callings, and people flocked from far and wide to centers of beard knowledge. As Williamsburg had the largest number of experts in artisanal beard oils, moustache waxes, and other facial hair arcana, it became the new Rome.
BIO
A classically trained baritone active in local and regional opera companies, Nick is thrilled to be part of this production. Recent credits include Melchior (Amahl and the Night Visitors), Silvano (Un ballo in maschera), Customs officer and Marcello cover (La boheme), Antonio (Le nozze di Figaro), Marco (Gianni Schicchi), Mr. Jenks and Grandpa cover (The Tender Land), Ceprano (Rigoletto), Yakuside (Madama Butterfly). In May, Nick will be part of the Natchez Festival of Music productions, singing the Bonze in Madama Butterfly, and covering Samuel in The Pirates of Penzance.
WILLIAMSBURG, BROOKLYN:
A LAND WHERE THE WHISKEY IS ALWAYS FLOWING.
HERE PEOPLE LIVE IN BLISSFUL PEACE UNDER THE TENURE OF WHISKEY PANTS,
THEIR BELOVED MAYOR.
SINCE "THE EVENT",
THEY'VE FOUND IT'S DANGEROUS TO DREAM,
LEAVING MOST TO PREFER TO LIVE THEIR DAYS IN A DRUNKEN STUPOR.
BUT NOW,
THEIR WAY OF LIFE IS THREATENED BY AN AMBITIOUS NEWCOMER
FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD
WHO SEEKS
TO SOBER
THEIR PERPETUAL HANGOVER.
WILL HE RUIN EVERYTHING?
OR WILL HE DISCOVER THAT
IN WILLIAMSBURG,
IT'S EASIER TO DRINK?
Needless to say I got an A for the project, but my teacher hastened to explain to me that in real life, I had to just pick one. Joke’s on you, my dear teacher, I’m an actress! I can be all three!