Nicholas Dunn

Nicholas Dunn

Writer, actor, and filmmaker based in Salt Lake City. In the Hellscape that was 2020, Nick won the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition with his play THE VALUE, and the Marius P. Halford IV Award for his One-Act TEMP. He also wrote the short film script EDITING 2020 for Salt Lake Acting Company.
Nick has written several plays for youth, including THE NO GIRLS ALLOWED CLUB, the books and lyrics to the...
Writer, actor, and filmmaker based in Salt Lake City. In the Hellscape that was 2020, Nick won the Risk Theatre Modern Tragedy Competition with his play THE VALUE, and the Marius P. Halford IV Award for his One-Act TEMP. He also wrote the short film script EDITING 2020 for Salt Lake Acting Company.
Nick has written several plays for youth, including THE NO GIRLS ALLOWED CLUB, the books and lyrics to the original musical adaptations of Hans Christian Anderson’s THE LITTLE MERMAID, THUMBELINA, and GREAT AMERICAN TALL TALES, all of which were presented at Kingsbury Hall by the University of Utah Youth Theatre. His original play VIRAL debuted at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland in 2011, and his short play OPEN premiered at Wasatch Theatre Company as part of their Page-to-Stage festival. He has also written several short films and commercial campaigns, including the award winning short ART, and the award-winning commercial spot "I Am Downtown" for the Salt Lake Downtown Alliance. He also works in the film industry as a script coordinator, most notably on HBO's "Mosaic" directed by Steven Soderbergh.
Nick holds a BFA in acting from the University of Utah, and an MFA in Playwriting & Screenwriting from Point Park University in Pittsburgh, PA, and was a participant in the Salt Lake Film Society's Screenwriter’s Program, co-sponsored by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

Plays

  • The Value
    FULL LENGTH: A trio of petty thieves hide out in a dingy motel room after stealing a piece of art from a museum in a smash-and-grab job. The painting offers a different possibility for each of them, but once its true value and significance becomes clear, they must confront the reality of their own intrinsic worth in a society driven by money and power.

  • Fervor
    FULL LENGTH: In a derelict cabin in the mountains on the Washington/Idaho border, a family of religious extremists prepare for the apocalypse. But when the youngest brother goes to Spokane and abducts a young school teacher in order to save her from the impending doom, the cabin becomes less a sanctuary and more a battleground of conflicting ideologies. The more the characters dig their feet into the ground,...
    FULL LENGTH: In a derelict cabin in the mountains on the Washington/Idaho border, a family of religious extremists prepare for the apocalypse. But when the youngest brother goes to Spokane and abducts a young school teacher in order to save her from the impending doom, the cabin becomes less a sanctuary and more a battleground of conflicting ideologies. The more the characters dig their feet into the ground, the more they uncover what lies at the root of their beliefs.
  • Temp
    ONE-ACT Three temp workers contemplate the meaning of their purpose while they toil within the paradox of wanting to do the work without completing it.

    Vaguely inspired by the "Myth of Sysyphus" by Albert Camus.
  • Open
    10 MINUTE A young Husband and Wife are offered an interesting proposition on the night of their first wedding anniversary.
  • The Doomsday Device
    Two young people left among the ruins of humanity find a strange device that may hold the answer to the riddle of the wasteland they now inhabit.
  • The No Girls Allowed Club
    FULL LENGTH, TYA: Girls have taken over the playground! The boys have all been driven into hiding! The Girls have a secret special guest coming to their next Girls-Only Tea Party! The Boys may never get within ten feet of the playground again! It’s up to the die-hard members of the No Girls Only Club to get the playground back from the Girls and save it from Girl Games, but things go from bad to worse when...
    FULL LENGTH, TYA: Girls have taken over the playground! The boys have all been driven into hiding! The Girls have a secret special guest coming to their next Girls-Only Tea Party! The Boys may never get within ten feet of the playground again! It’s up to the die-hard members of the No Girls Only Club to get the playground back from the Girls and save it from Girl Games, but things go from bad to worse when their chief scout Arnold develops a crush on the Girls leader. Will the Girls have the playground forever? Will the love-sick Arnold betray them all? Will there ever be peace or will they all die of cooties and be buried in the sandbox, just like Timmy’s legos?
  • Terminal
    10 MINUTE Two weary travelers try to wait patiently while stranded between where they are from and where they are going.