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Nicholas recently returned to Australia from Mumbai to appear in an episode of Channel 7's
‘City Homicide’, the short film ‘Bani Ibrahim’ and a Channel 7 comedy pilot called ‘Lucky
Dragon’. Nick has appeared in Australian films ‘The Characters’, ‘Temptation’ and ‘A Man's
Gotta Do’. His television credits include ‘Home And Away’, ‘White Collar Blue’, ‘Heartbreak
High’, ‘Drama School’ and ‘The Cooks’ on Channel Ten and Foxtel.
Acting in many international theatre festivals, Nicholas recently performed in three new plays
at the National Play Festival in Brisbane, in Rehaan Engineer's ‘Seven Jewish Children’ by
Caryl Churchill in Project 88 Art Gallery in Mumbai and 'Doctrine: How To Survive Under
Siege' in Brussels, Belgium for the Kunsten Festival Des Arts. Nicholas also represented the
NIDA company at the UNESCO 2007 drama schools festival in Transylvania Romania, playing
Orestes in Aeschylus’s Ancient Greek tragedy ‘The Oresteian Trilogy.’ He also played the
villain Nikhil Madhvani opposite Shilpa Shetty in ‘Miss Bollywood’ which toured Germany and
the UK including London’s West End. Other theatre credits include ‘There Is No Need To
Wake Up’ at the Sydney Opera House directed by Barrie Kosky; Kurt Weill’s ‘Berlin to
Broadway’ directed by Jim Sharman; ‘Spunks’ at the Stables Theatre; ‘Frozen’ for Company B
Belvoir St Theatre directed by Kate Gaul; Toad in the Australian Shakespeare Company's
productions of ‘Wind in the Willows’ and Martin Crimp’s ‘Fewer Emergencies’ at The Old
Fitzroy Theatre.
In 2004 Nicholas was a recipient of The Mike Walsh Fellowship and travelled to India, Los
Angeles, New York, London, Paris and Rome studying multiculturalism in theatre, film and
television. In London he had an internship with the British Indian Theatre Company Tamasha
Theatre and began honing his writing skills. In 2005 he was the male understudy for the
children’s pop group Hi-5 on their world tour.
Having recently completed writing an Aussie Bollywood Musical screenplay called ‘Fair +
Lovely’, Nicholas also wrote the plays ‘Rain Supreme’ and ‘The Glass Soul’ - both were
performed at Australia’s premiere international short play festival, Short and Sweet. Currently
Nicholas is creating a graphic musical film of contemporary fairy tales called ‘Blue Fairy’. A
singer/songwriter, Nicholas also recorded the album ‘Big Score’ with his disco funk band
Modernists in 2004 and performed at Australian venues such as The Basement and The Metro
(the album is available in all good Australian record stores). Go to
www.myspace.com/modernistsfeaturingnickbrown to hear song samples. Nicholas was also
invited to perform at ‘Raise the Roof’ at Sydney’s State Theatre in a special concert to raise
funds for the Tsunami Appeal in 2006. Nick also wrote and recorded an album with the electro
rock outfit ‘Listen Like Thieves’ and is planning a solo release in 2010. His new original songs
can be heard at www.myspace.com/nicholasbrownmusic . |
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