Acting

Nic Prior is an actor and performance artist training in Los Angeles at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). They have been training since a young age and are passionate about all aspects of their diverse artistic practice. Nic has experience in many different kinds of performance with training in contemporary/devised performance, Suzuki Actor Training, Viewpoints, Absurdist Theatre, Brecht's Epic Theatre, Shakespeare and Butoh. They are currently working towards obtaining their BFA in Acting at CalArts and will graduate in 2020. Nic has been involved in many theatrical productions in Australia and the United States. Roles for Nic include Artist in Portrait of a Young Man (a one-person Butoh piece, dir. Coleman Grehan), The Players in Hamlet (dir. Scarlett Kim), Achilles in Our Iliad (dir. Jessica Hanna) and Boy in The Persistence of Men on Me (dir. Coleman Grehan), which earned them the award for Best New Talent at the 2016 Short+Sweet Festival Gala Finals in Brisbane, Australia. Nic also recently worked with internationally renown theatre troupe, Gob Squad, in their LA premiere of Creation (Pictures for Dorian) at REDCAT.