Nicholas Walker Herbert

Writer, Writer-Advocate, Actor

Nicholas Walker Herbert is an award-winning playwright and theatre-artist based in California.  His plays have been produced and developed around the United States and internationally since 2001.  He started in theatre as an actor when he was 8 years old, and has performed in numerous staged readings and workshops with BCTC.  He also contributes as writer to their sketch and radio plays.  His most recent production was the March 2020 world premiere of his full-length drama Bloodless by Cal State LA.  In 2019, three of his short plays were presented in the BCTC’s Salon Reading Series Summer Shorts II.  One of those short plays, Astronauts in Love, was produced by Winters Theatre Company in their first 10-minute play festival in January 2020, and has been adapted as a radio drama for the Quarantine Radio Hour podcast.  Since 2011, several of his full-length plays have received staged readings in the Valdez Last Frontier Theatre Conference in Alaska.  His full-length solo show, The Alien Baby Play, has been produced in Texas, Canada, and adapted as a 5-minute online performance with the National Theatre of Scotland 24-hour festival in 2014.  In 2007, his full-length play A Flag Touched the Ground: The Blood Ties received the Dharma-Grace Foundation Creative Writing Award and full production at the University of California at Santa Cruz.  In 2014, Nicholas started co-hosting monthly readings called Bear Cave for creative writers and artists to receive feedback, support and inspiration, and he continues advocating on behalf of writers and artists for BCTC.  He has a BA with honors in theatre arts from UC Santa Cruz, and has interned with New Dramatists and the Dramatists Guild of America.  He is a native of Davis, and was born in Sacramento.  His plays can be found on newplayexchange.org