10/14/10

IRVINE, CA - Production began on the short film, "The Propostition".  Nick plays a psychotic, murderous Doctor!  It will be premiering in Orange County in mid-December.

9/13/10

The Samsung national commercial starring Nick began airing on ESPN.  You can watch it on the site - just click on Reel.

8/30/10

BEVERLY HILLS, CA - Nick arrives in Southern California after an amazing, six day cross-country drive.

1/5/10

TAMPA, FL - Wish Farms' new ad campaign is released on Youtube to nearly 6,000 views.  Nick plays the ambitious "warehouse pixie", Pete.  He has big plans and big wings.

Watch the four part series:

www.wishfarms.com

8/21/09 

NEW YORK, NY -  Nick plays the lead in the critically acclaimed play, "Finger Paint" by Erin Austin and Ross Evans.  It premiered at the Here Arts Center, off-Broadway.

Here's what the critics said:

BACKSTAGE

Reviewed by Tom Penketh

Despite its juvenile title, "Finger Paint" is a marvelous work of theatrical brio. Tapping the talents of its four audacious young actors, one of whom co-wrote it, the play tackles subjects such as love, sex, and art without sentimentality. Instead, it uses humor and a surprising depth of feeling as a springboard for its contention that life, like art, is a "series of happy accidents" that's often "much better in the abstract."

The 90-minute play is essentially a theatrical dialogue between Ann (Erin Austin) and her roommate Ryan (Nick Cobey), a painter who's moving out the next day. One wall in the apartment they shared has become a literal expression of their friendship: The two painted anytime they felt "dangerous, inspired, or like shit." Early on they point out how each part of the wall reflects a memory. The title comes from Ryan's preference to paint with his hands, without brushes, a technique Ann adopts.

The play flashes back and forward in time, touching on Ann's complicated relationship with Jacob (Anthony Comis), Ryan's affairs with a large number of very different women (all played by Ariana Shore), as well as Ann's unrequited love for Ryan. Ann pushes Ryan to "finish the wall," as if adding another layer will allow them both to move on with their lives.

Though the ending isn't as punchy as it could be, "Finger Paint" is a pleasure to watch thanks to Ross Evans' tight direction. Austin (who co-wrote with Evans) and Cobey demonstrate terrific chemistry. Comis is solid as Ann's love interest, but Shore really excels in her portrayals of Ryan's many lovers, acting as a sparkplug for every moment she's on stage.

NY THEATRE

reviewed by Heather Lee Rogers

Finger Paint is a sex-filled, messy romp in paint. The story begins when Ann meets the fascinating finger paint artist Ryan and is so eager to connect with him that she ends up inviting him to share her apartment. Together they embark on a "roommate project" to paint a wall together. The wall becomes a living graffiti expression of the friendship, attraction, jealousy, and increasing complexity of their relationship. Each mark, shape, and streak on their wall is symbolic of some feeling or story of their life in the apartment together. Also present in the collage of this play is Jacob (Ann's true-blue, cautious boyfriend) and an endless series of crazy women that pass through Ryan's sex life. These women (who Ryan uses and then discards like paint rags) are all played hilariously by Ariana Shore. The fifth character in the play is the wall itself, a beautiful work of art by Rachel Senchoway. The floor of the stage is a drop cloth which is useful because whenever Ann or Ryan get inspired they dunk their fists into a jar of squishy paint. Also onstage is an old paint-stained couch which is used for a myriad of sexual encounters. This play is messy, carnal, funny, and emotionally complicated.

The writing (a joint effort by Erin Austin, who plays Ann, and the director, Ross Evans) is daring in its creativity. The order of scenes jumps around in chronology. The language of the play flows in and out of different styles. Sometimes the dialogue is in lines of poetry, like words and ideas dropped on a canvas in almost musical answer to each other but devoid of traditional sentence structure. Sometimes conversations run like a stream in a familiar, straightforward, contemporary way. Other times lines are ammunition, shot from one actor to another—words and ideas of one individual character's experience blasted across the stage at another, where the effect is more like poetic juxtaposition and less like traditional conversation. I enjoyed this approach to the dialogue and thought it highly appropriate in a play which features spontaneously created artwork as a central preoccupation.

The ensemble: Austin, Shore, Nick Coby as Ryan, and Anthony Comis as Jacob all deliver strong work individually and work together extremely well. The unique and inventive style of the production is excellently delivered by Evans. I really enjoyed this production and it made me want to go get crazy with some paint!