Nicholas Walker Herbert is an award-winning playwright and theatre-artist based in California. His plays have been produced and developed around the United States and internationally since 2001. He started in theatre as an actor when he was 8 years old. In March 2020, his full-length drama Bloodless received a world premiere by Cal State Los Angeles. In 2019, three of his short plays were presented in the Bike City Theatre Company’s Salon Reading Series Summer Shorts II. One of those short plays, Astronauts in Love, was produced by Winters Theatre Company in their first 10-minute play festival in January 2020, and has been adapted as a radio drama for the Quarantine Radio Hour podcast. In July 2020, Bike City Theatre Company produced his radio play The Great Stampede. Since 2011...
Nicholas Walker Herbert is an award-winning playwright and theatre-artist based in California. His plays have been produced and developed around the United States and internationally since 2001. He started in theatre as an actor when he was 8 years old. In March 2020, his full-length drama Bloodless received a world premiere by Cal State Los Angeles. In 2019, three of his short plays were presented in the Bike City Theatre Company’s Salon Reading Series Summer Shorts II. One of those short plays, Astronauts in Love, was produced by Winters Theatre Company in their first 10-minute play festival in January 2020, and has been adapted as a radio drama for the Quarantine Radio Hour podcast. In July 2020, Bike City Theatre Company produced his radio play The Great Stampede. Since 2011, several of his full-length plays have received staged readings in the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska. His full-length solo show, The Alien Baby Play, has been produced in Texas, Canada, and adapted as a 5-minute online performance with the National Theatre of Scotland 24-hour festival in 2014. In 2007, he received the Dharma-Grace Foundation Creative Writing Award from the University of California of Santa Cruz. In 2003, he received the Tony Fields Memorial Scholarship and the Paul Sykes Memorial Scholarship for excellence in drama. He attended the Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive in 2007 and as alumni in 2008. He was the Writer-in-Resident at the Matthew Corozine Theatre Studio from 2008 and 2009. In 2011, Nicholas co-founded Full Circle Theater Company, which produced three festivals of 14 new plays. His monologues Coming Clean and Teddy Berg’s Story were published by Focus Publishing Spring 2013. In 2014, Nicholas started co-hosting monthly readings called Bear Cave for creative writers and artists to receive feedback, support and inspiration. In July 2020, he became a company member with Bike City Theatre Company, where he contributes writing as well as advocates on behalf of writers and artists. He has a BA with honors in theatre arts from University of California at Santa Cruz, and has interned with New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild of America. He is a native of Davis, and was born in Sacramento.