Trey Nichols is an actor, playwright, solo performer, and director based in Los Angeles.  He is a company member of Moving Arts, an award-winning theatre company dedicated to producing new plays by emerging and established playwrights.  He served as the theatre's Literary Director from 1995 to 2007, and produced its Playreading Series.  He moderates a popular weekly playwriting workshop and works as a consultant for playwrights and screenwriters.  Originally from the San Francisco Bay Area, Trey received a B.S. in Theatre from Northwestern University.  He is a member of SAG, AFTRA, and The Dramatists Guild.  He has lived in Southern California since 1994.

(Photo by Mary Ann Halpin)

Trey’s critically acclaimed solo show, A Lesson in Proper Bow-Fluffing Technique (Storey Productions/Moving Arts) earned a 2005 Ovation nomination for Best Solo Performance.  Set at the height of the holiday season, the piece is a multi-character comedy based on Trey's real-life day job in a department store.  Critics have described the show as "a razor sharp portrait...as well written as it is performed" (Los Angeles Times) and  "surprisingly poignant" (LA Weekly).  Trey is currently preparing for holiday performances and  touring in Southern California and beyond.  For booking information and to learn more about the show go here. 

(Photo by Mary Ann Halpin)

As an actor, Trey has performed in films, commercials and industrials, and on stages in Chicago, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Los Angeles.   To see Trey's headshots and acting resume, go here.

(Song of Extinction by EM Lewis, Moving Arts at [Inside] The Ford, 2008.  Directed by Heidi Helen Davis. L to R: Michael Shutt, Trey Nichols.  Photo by Jay Lawton.)

Trey has written over a dozen full-length and one-act plays, most of them produced or workshopped in Los Angeles.  For more information about plays written by Trey, go here.

(Move,  Moving Arts,  2009.  Directed by Lee Wochner.  L to R: Elizabeth Ann Harris, Rebecca Davis, Brian Newkirk, Laura Buckles.  Photo by Jay Lawton.)

trey@treynichols.net

Tangent Corner

8/22/10

In 2008, my brother and his wife and kids visited northern California for their summer vacation (they live in Pennsylvania, but my brother and I grew up in the Bay Area).  Our whole extended family gets together for these biannual summer events.  On one of our day trips, we visited Pier 39 in San Francisco, where you can see, in the photo I took below, sea lions basking in the sun.  They bark and fight and snooze and cavort and generally stink up the place to the delight of ogling tourists.  Then for their 2010 summer vacation...

...my family came out to southern California, where among other tourist stops, we went to Legoland.  Below is a picture I took of the Lego version of Pier 39, sea lions and all.  Those are coins you see at the bottom of the bay.  I must admit, I prefer the Lego version of Pier 39...it's much cleaner and less crowded with tourists.  I'd finally be able to get a table at that little cafe with the blue awning!  (Though the coffee would probably taste like plastic.)

 3/10/10

treynichols.net has been a cyberbun in the oven for well over a year now and I spent most of that time fretting and tinkering ad nauseum, adding pages, deleting pages, rearranging text, and generally doing what people of a certain age refer to as "farting around."  though no actual farts were emitted. (well maybe a couple.)  the site still has a ways to go and will be updated with more stuff as it becomes available.  i aim to keep it fresh and fun, with occasional surprises along the way.  your feedback is always welcome!

Trey