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

That was then...

2023

In early January, Trey had a fun conversation with James Elden on his podcast Playwright's Spotlight.  Check it out here!  

2022 

a year of reflection, attention to family, four session of the Playwriting Workshop on Zoom, and new play & project development.

2020-2021 

Co-produced, wrote and performed in Isolation Inn a groundbreaking 9-part Zoom web series.  Check it out on YouTube! (Trey also plays the role  of Clint Ballard)

2019

No new plays, but Trey's Playwriting Workshop  starts a residency at the highly acclaimed City Garage Theatre in Santa Monica.

2018

Deep Dish Apocalypse, baby!!!  Trey's short play adapted for film, produced by Bell-House Productions (not to be confused with Bellhouse Productions.  Sheesh!).  Nice film festival run.  Check it out here.  Trey's short play Risen, a futuristic dystopian piece about three characters confronting high stakes personal dilemmas related climate change, receives its world premiere in a site-specific production in Hollywood.  Directed by Ross Kramer.

2017

In March, Trey's short play Marigold was part of Sacred Fools Theater Company's production of The Box: Los Angeles, a "Narrative Experiment in Late-Night Theater" conceived and produced by Padraic Duffy.

2016

Premiere production of Trey's stage adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's short story From Beyond, Wicked Lit 2016 (Unbound Productions) in Altadena, California.  Directed by Jeff Rack.  Published by Stage Rights/Broadway Licensing.  Oh, and Trey married Diana Lee Woody in August, honeymooned in Edinburgh, Scotland and saw as many Fringe shows as they could fit into their schedule between castles!  

2013

In March, 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 started 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 a few in-house readings, the plays were 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.

Also in 2013...The Car Plays travelled to Orange County!

The Car Plays is a site-specific theatre phenomenon conceived by Moving Arts' former Artistic Director Paul Stein in 2006 (read an article in LAist here).  The show is made up of up to 20 short plays performed inside of rows of parked cars.  A ticket buys you a row of five cars--five separate plays--and "carhops" usher audience members from car to car between plays.  Each program runs about an hour.  After a wildly successful run at Segerstrom Center for the Arts' Off-Center Festival in 2012, the show pulled into Orange County again in January and February for a return engagement in the 2013 Festival.  Trey's play Todd's Hollywood Tours was part of the line-up.

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

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 with captive audience in backseat.

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 as 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.  Trey's play Todd's Hollywood Tours premiered here.  Directed by Julie Briggs.

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

Here are Todd and Mom  cracking open a bottle of Martinelli's Sparkling Cider for their patrons.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

Trey as Dad in Disneyland, a car play by Paul Stein.  Directed by Dana Schwartz.  (photo by Trey Nichols)

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In Ligature: An Evening of 5 Short (Moving Arts 16th annual Premiere One-Act Festival) Trey played a homeless space alien in Blank by Rachel White.  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)

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

Trey's play Move, a commission from Moving Arts for the company's annual Premiere One Act Play Festival, was produced by the company in the fall; that year the Festival was hosted by Son of Semele, a renowned theatre company in LA's Silverlake District.

(L to R: Rebecca Davis, Laura Buckles, Brian Newkirk.  Photo by Jay Lawton.)

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The Car Plays at Woodbury University

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.  

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.

Thus ends our trip down memory lane!  Thirteen years of plays, performances and theatre merriment.

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This is, um, not quite yet.  But stay tuned!

Two full-length plays in develeopment.  Working titles:  Compassion and Pet Mom.

Then there's this long-term monster of a project coming to fruition...

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The Sunnyvale Seven--unmasked at last!  Were they members of a deadly terrorist sleeper cell plotting acts of mayhem and destruction? Or just a hapless association of conspiracy-obsessed dead-enders? And what about those mixtapes found in Xxxxx Xxxx's apartment with the songs of Burt Bacharach and Hal David? Did the lyrics contain secret codes concealing plans for Something Big?  Through a collection of found texts, journals, receipts, interviews, eyewitness accounts, and a few empty bottles of Charles Shaw cabernet, xxxxx, xxxxxxxx, and errata, Trey is piecing  together a sordid tale of love, politics, and paranoia that nearly brought a nation's pants down to its ankles.  This is a play in deep development.

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