Nicholas Ian

is ecstatic to be acting in Chicago. He holds a Bachelor of Musical Arts from the University of Illinois in Urbana, Champaign. During his education, he performed alongside Nathan Gunn in Don Giovanni (Ensemble), directed by Gunn. Under the tutelage of professors Dawn Harris and Sarah Wigley, he competed in the NATS regional musical theater competition and won multiple first, second, and third places in the final TBB category. Other roles while at university include Peter Quint/Prologue (Turn of the Screw), Mosquito (The Cunning Little Vixen), Male Swing (Spelling Bee), and Moose/Bobby u/s (Crazy for You). Recent credits in Chicago include On the Twentieth Century (Ensemble) with Blank Theater, TwiHard: A Twilight Musical Parody (Carlisle/Eric) with Otherworld Theater, and La Rondine (Lead Dancer) at the Southern Illinois Music Festival in Carbondale, Illinois. A musician of many instruments in addition to voice, he has also performed as a concert oboist in the esteemed Sydney Opera House and Sydney Town Hall both in Sydney, Australia; additionally, he has also played in pit orchestras to musicals such as The Little Mermaid, Footloose, Pippin, and The Most Happy Fella. Currently, you can catch him performing as Captain Albert Lennox and the Archibald/Neville understudy with Theo Ubique’s The Secret Garden. In the spring, you can find Nicholas standing still as the statue Neleus in Metropolis Performing Arts Center’s Mary Poppins in Arlington Heights, then making his return on the Theo Ubique stage in their Midwest premier of Diana: The Musical during the summer. Seeking representation!