
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.

Set against the epic violence of the Trojan War, Holding Achilles by David Morton is a refreshing take on one of the ancient world’s best-known heroes, and his relationship with Patroclus, his not so well-known lover. As a young exile taken in by Achilles’ father, Patroclus faces hostility from the young hero until they are thrust together to train under the centaur Chiron, and the two form an unlikely friendship. As Achilles doggedly seeks to fulfil his mother’s prophecy to become a legend, their relationship becomes something more. But war with Troy is brewing, and the two young men find themselves caught between their hopes for a future together and the brutal realities of the world that faces them. Recorded by Pixelframe in partnership with Digital Stage made possible by QPAC.

Set in an abstraction of 1970s London, Amaranthine tells a tale of punks, betrayal and revenge.
