A compendium of Treys's recent and upcoming projects and activities...

That was then...

2011...

Trey performed in and wrote for The Car Plays: L.A. Stories, a site-specific piece produced by Moving Arts, conceived by former Artistic Director Paul Stein for the company in 2006.  In 2011, The Car Plays was a part of Radar L.A., an international theatre festival produced by RedCat in collaboration with CTG and the Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival. 

Below, Brent Popolizio as Todd in Trey's car play Todd's Hollywood Tours. Directed by Julie Briggs.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

Todd (Brent Popolizio) an unsuccessful yet irrepressibly optmistic actor gives tours of his own private Hollywood with his mother (Mary Beth Pape).   Sparkling cider anyone?  Whoops!  No bottle opener : (  (photo by Trey Nichols)

Trey in Disneyland, a car play by Paul Stein.  (Directed by Dana Schwartz).  Trey played exasperated father; the backseat audience members are his kids.  (photo by Trey Nichols...with a little help from his iPhone)

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Trey played a homeless space alien in Blank, a play by Rachel White presented in "Ligature: An Evening of 5 Short Plays" (Moving Arts' 16th Annual Premiere One-Act Festival  Ligature).  Directed by Vesna Hocevar.

Below x 2:  Trey Nichols and Rebecca Davis (photos by Jay Lawton).

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2010...

In the fall of 2010, Trey mentored with Young Storytellers Foundation, an organization that brings writers and actors into schools for one-on-one mentoring with 5th and 6th graders.  During the ten-week session, the adult mentors help their young storytellers develop a five-page script, which is performed by guest actors at the final session, dubbed "The Big Show."  In the photo below, actors perform Trey's Storyteller Karla's play "The Candy Lover," set on a Halloween night that goes awry... (photo by Trey Nichols)

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Below, Trey as a bad-ass biker in an installment of "The Most Interesting Knucklehead in the World" a series of short viral videos for Five Finger Death Punch.  Produced by Vesna Hocevar.  Directed by Danijel Sraka.

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Stand-up comedy in LA and the South Bay.  (Photos by Jake Rosario)

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Also in 2010, Trey launched the Weekly Workout at Moving Arts, a creative laboratory and playpen for actors, writers and directors.  Below, actor Sara Wagner and Trey improvise a strange card game by candlelight. (photo by Steve Lozier)

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2009...

Move (a play in one act)

A one-act play commissioned by Moving Arts for the theatre's 15th annual Premiere One-Act Festival, produced at Son of Semele.  Trey's one-act play Fathers at a Game premiered in the 1995 Fest, so this was a bit of a homecoming. (L to R: Rebecca Davis, Laura Buckles, Brian Newkirk.  Photo by Jay Lawton.)

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The Road Downhill

In this short film written and directed by Chris Nooney, Trey plays an Irish gangster confronted by an eager young wannabe with a secret agenda.  To watch The Road Downhill, click here.

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The Car Plays

Two of Trey's recent 10-minute plays-- Impact and PCH-- had their premieres in Moving Arts' third annual Car Plays event at Woodbury University in Burbank.  

Originated by former Artistic Director Paul Nicolai Stein, The Car Plays is made up of 20 short plays performed simultaneously inside of parked cars.  Audience members buy a ticket to a row of five cars, and move from car to car to watch each play.

Impact by Trey Nichols.  Directed by Josh Galitsky.  (L to R: Tim Orona, Joe Gill.  Photo by Trey Nichols)

PCH by Trey Nichols.  Directed by Darrell Kunitomi.  (L to R: Michael Shutt, Sara Wagner.)

Trey also portrayed a small-time rock star who just won't quit in Men in Black Leather  by Jason Moskowitz.  To read an article about The Car Plays in the Burbank Leader, click here.

L to R: Trey Nichols, Wendy Abraham, Jon Amirkhan.  Photo by Josh Galitsky.

Stay tuned for more updates!

This is...um, not quite yet...

but will be soon!

The Car Plays 2012...

Trey will be on the road (heh heh) with The Car Plays in January and February.  More info as soon as the official announcment goes out...

A Mystery Project...

In the spring of 2011, Trey was approached by a theatre director and producer about a very special project...so special and fantastic and epic that he can't even talk about or describe it.  He's working on it right now as 2011 winds down and gets gobbled up by 2012.  Stay tuned for more info!

In the meantime...here are two plays-in-progress and a solo piece that have been placed in the vault temporarily...

Find Brother

Dwayne's big brother Terrence is a private military contractor in Iraq who's either gone missing or just being a dick.  Enter Vince Penerdzhyan (don't try pronouncing it--nobody gets it), an ambitious videographer Dwayne hires to make a video about Terrence, for upload, distribution, anything that might help find Terrence and bring him home.  But Vince's hot-headed assistant Mike , an American-born Iranian can't help but push Dwayne's buttons about Terrence, the war on terror, Bush, 9/11.  Shit hits fan.  Oh, Dwayne has a girlfriend with a shriveled hand, thwarting her porn star ambitions.  'Til Vince offers a suggestion.

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 knew

Trey's most ambitious play to date.  The one he refers to as "the conspiracy theory play" before quickly changing the subject.  It's the infamous tale of the Sunnyvale Seven.  Were they a terrorist cell nestled in the bosom of suburbia, using the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David as a secret code for their nefarious plans?  Or just a hapless group of dead-enders stuck in the '70's?  Through a series of found texts, journals, receipts, and errata, Trey pieces together a sordid tale of love and paranoia that nearly brought a nation's pants down to its ankles.

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The Phrase That Pays

a solo show

A sequel and companion piece to Trey's popular one-man show A Lesson in Proper Bow-Fluffing Technique.  The heat is on when a store courtesy account contest is announced.  The coveted prize for all employees who make their quota is admission to Janey's Disco Pizza Party!  The losers face imminent death (well, unemployment anyway).  Our hero has a big job ahead of him in this game of strategy and tactics.