An ever-changing compendium of Treys's recent and upcoming projects...

That was then...

2013...

On March 15, Trey's play Mosaic Couple with Wine was presented by Moving Arts in an evening of readings from  The Mosaic Wonderland Project, an ongoing series of short plays inspired by the work of Los Angeles artist Kimberly Jordan.

The process starts with a visit to Kimberly's gallery in Silver Lake.  Writers select a piece that inspires or intrigues them...

...then get to work on writing their plays.

After several group meetings with the writers, the plays are revised, polished, then rehearsed and presented in an evening of either staged readings or workshop performance.  Kudos to director  Vesna Hocevar, producer Jenny Gillett, dramaturg Alicia Tycer, technical guru Danijel Sraka, and co-producer Lemuel Thornton!

Mosaic Couple with Wine, featuring Laura Buckles and Jason Duplissea.

The Car Plays pulled into OC in January and February for a return engagement in Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Off-Center Festival, after a wildly successful run in 2012.

Trey's play "Todd's Hollywood Tours" was part of the line-up.

Mary Beth Pape and Michael Shutt in Todd's Hollywood Tours.

In January, Trey's adaptation of Illinois author Mark Costello's short story Murphy's Xmas was presented in a staged reading at St. Nick's Pub in West LA as part of Moving Arts' 20th Anniversary season.

The reading was directed by Lee Wochner and produced by Sara Wagner.

(L to R: Mark Kinsey Stephenson, Tom Boyle, Christina Hart, Michael Hanson.  Photo by Trey Nichols)

Natalie Fischbach and Tony DeCarlo.  Photo by Trey Nichols.

2012...

Trey performed in The Car Plays in the WoW (Without Walls) Series at the La Jolla Playhouse.  Trey played Dad in Disneyland by Paul Stein.  Directed by Dana Schwartz.

Trey Nichols with captive audience.  Photo by TBA.

In January, The Car Plays travelled to Orange County, appearing in the Off-Center Festival at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.

Michael Shutt and Sara Wagner in PCH. Directed by Kimberly Glann.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

2011...

Trey performed in and wrote for The Car Plays: L.A. Stories, a site-specific piece produced by Moving Arts, conceived by former Artistic Director Paul Stein for the company in 2006.  In 2011, The Car Plays was a part of Radar L.A., an international theatre festival produced by RedCat in collaboration with CTG and the Public Theater's Under The Radar Festival. 

Below, Brent Popolizio as Todd in Trey's car play Todd's Hollywood Tours. Directed by Julie Briggs.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

Todd Weemer (Brent Popolizio), an unsuccessful yet irrepressibly optimistic actor gives Hollywood tours with his mother (Mary Beth Pape), featuring spots where he nearly booked auditions and rubbed elbows with C-list celebrities.  Here are Todd and Mom  cracking open a bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Cider for their patrons.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

Trey in Disneyland, a car play by Paul Stein.  (Directed by Dana Schwartz).  Trey played exasperated father; the backseat audience members are his kids.  (photo by Trey Nichols...with a little help from his iPhone)

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Trey played a homeless space alien in Blank, a play by Rachel White presented in "Ligature: An Evening of 5 Short Plays" (Moving Arts' 16th Annual Premiere One-Act Festival  Ligature).  Directed by Vesna Hocevar.

Below x 2:  Trey Nichols and Rebecca Davis (photos by Jay Lawton).

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2010...

In the fall of 2010, Trey mentored with Young Storytellers Foundation, an organization that brings writers and actors into schools for one-on-one mentoring with 5th and 6th graders.  During the ten-week session, the adult mentors help their young storytellers develop a five-page script, which is performed by guest actors at the final session, dubbed "The Big Show."  In the photo below, actors perform Trey's Storyteller Karla's play "The Candy Lover," set on a Halloween night that goes awry... (photo by Trey Nichols)

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Below, Trey as a bad-ass biker in an installment of "The Most Interesting Knucklehead in the World" a series of short viral videos for Five Finger Death Punch.  Produced by Vesna Hocevar.  Directed by Danijel Sraka.

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Stand-up comedy in LA and the South Bay.  (Photos by Jake Rosario)

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Also in 2010, Trey launched the Weekly Workout at Moving Arts, a creative laboratory and playpen for actors, writers and directors.  Below, actor Sara Wagner and Trey improvise a strange card game by candlelight. (photo by Steve Lozier)

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2009...

Move (a play in one act)

A one-act play commissioned by Moving Arts for the theatre's 15th annual Premiere One-Act Festival, produced at Son of Semele.  Trey's one-act play Fathers at a Game premiered in the 1995 Fest, so this was a bit of a homecoming. (L to R: Rebecca Davis, Laura Buckles, Brian Newkirk.  Photo by Jay Lawton.)

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The Road Downhill

In this short film written and directed by Chris Nooney, Trey plays an Irish gangster confronted by an eager young wannabe with a secret agenda.  To watch The Road Downhill, click here.

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The Car Plays

Two of Trey's recent 10-minute plays-- Impact and PCH-- had their premieres in Moving Arts' third annual Car Plays event at Woodbury University in Burbank.  

Originated by former Artistic Director Paul Nicolai Stein, The Car Plays is made up of 20 short plays performed simultaneously inside of parked cars.  Audience members buy a ticket to a row of five cars, and move from car to car to watch each play.

Impact by Trey Nichols.  Directed by Josh Galitsky.  (L to R: Tim Orona, Joe Gill.  Photo by Trey Nichols)

PCH by Trey Nichols.  Directed by Darrell Kunitomi.  (L to R: Michael Shutt, Sara Wagner.)

Trey also portrayed a small-time rock star who just won't quit in Men in Black Leather  by Jason Moskowitz.  To read an article about The Car Plays in the Burbank Leader, click here.

L to R: Trey Nichols, Wendy Abraham, Jon Amirkhan.  Photo by Josh Galitsky.

Stay tuned for more updates!

This is...um, not quite yet...

but will be soon!

Here are two plays-in-progress and a solo piece currently under construction...

Find Brother

It's 2008 and Dwayne Pfeiffer's badass big brother Terrence is an independent private military contractor in Iraq who's either dead, gone MIA, or just being a dick.  Enter Vince Penerdzhyan (don't bother pronouncing it--nobody gets it), an ambitious videographer Dwayne hires to make a video about Terrence--for upload, distribution, anything that might solve the mystery of his disappearance and bring him home.  But Vince's hot-headed assistant Mike , an American-born Iranian can't help but push Dwayne's buttons about Terrence, the war on terror, Bush, 9/11.  Shit hits fan.  And Dwayne's weird girlfriend isn't helping.  She just wants what she wants.

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 knew

Finally!  The xxxxx  xx xxxxx xxx xxxx of  The Sunnyvale Seven.  Were they a terrorist cell nestled in the xxxxxxxx   xx xxxxxxxx.  Xxxxx xxxxx xxx xxxx xxxx of Burt Bacharach and Hal David as a secret code xxx xxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxx?  Or just a hapless group xx mindless dead-enders xxxxx xx xx xxx that left them behind.  Through a series of found texts, journals, receipts, xxxxx, xxxxxxxx, and errata, Trey is piecing  together a sordid tale of love and paranoia that nearly brought a nation's pants down to its ankles.

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The Phrase That Pays

a solo show

A sequel and companion piece to Trey's popular one-man show A Lesson in Proper Bow-Fluffing Technique.  The heat is on when a store courtesy account contest is announced.  The coveted prize for all employees who make their quota is admission to Janey's Disco Pizza Party!  The losers face imminent death (well, unemployment anyway).  Our hero has a big job ahead of him in this game of strategy and tactics.

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Hi Boo:  The Podcast.

Boy meets girl.  Boy loses girl.  Boy starts podcast.

Hi Boo:  The Podcast.

A podcast for one.

Hi Boo:  The Podcast

What if the girl/gal that drove you/You crazy and who/whom you drove into the arms of another/f*cker was the one/1 you were meant to be with.  And you knew she's out there somewhere.  I mean she's gotta be.  Right, Boo?

Bye Boo.

Love, Boo.