Nick Baker (he/him) is a writer, actor, deviser, and hip-hop artist based out of Worcester, MA. His art values community, accountability, and examining the uncomfortable above all else. Nick has written two hip-hop theater plays: And Then a Fight Broke Out and Working On It: A Story of Struggle, Love, and Donuts, both of which were developed and workshopped at the New Africa House Experimental Lab at UMass Amherst, a space which Nick assisted in creating with Professor Iya Awotunde Judyie Al-Bilali's Brown Paper Studio class.

Nick's work centers on interrogating social and cultural issues through plays that combine scripted and devised scenes that tackle the question "what does it take to create community?" Much of Nick's writing is rooted in hip-hop theater, using the music, movement, and honesty of hip-hop as a channel to explore characters, conflict, and searches for resolution.

Nick is currently focused on developing And Then a Fight Broke Out and writing a new play: The Dog Days Are Now; a play about what happens when a warehouse worker in a reality improv game show strikes out on his chance at a new life, and in his desperation, ends up in a fight to show the world his humanity.