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About me:
Nick Trotter is a 2008 graduate of the MFA program at the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre. He has been active in music and theatre since childhood. He was classically trained in voice in the Colorado Children’s Chorale and began guitar study at age 13. He studied for two years in the BFA acting program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts before transferring to the University of Colorado, where he received a BA in Geography in 1996.
At the Dell'Arte School, Nick trained extensively in Clown, Bouffon, and Commedia Dell'Arte. He is one of the school's noted mask and prosthetic designers. He has worked extensively with Four on the Floor/The Arcata Playhouse on their outdoor spectacle Elemental, as a clown, musician and shadow puppeteer, performing in California and Pender Island, British Columbia. For the 2010 Centennial Celebration of the city of Blue Lake, he created and directed a special edition of Elemental's shadow show – a history of the city with original music and puppetry.
Most recently, he created and directed The Book of Jonah, a shadow-puppet adaptation of the biblical story, which received its world premiere at the International Festival of Animated Objects in Calgary, Alberta in March 2011. He also created an abstract shadow show, Very Like a Whale, which premiered in June at CSA in Denver. He also performs on two house improv teams at Bovine Metropolis Theater.
In 2008 and 2009 he collaborated with Four on the Floor's David Ferney to create Ferney's one-man show The Misunderstood Badger, which played at the Arcata Playhouse and at the Ko Festival in Amherst, Massachusetts.
As his clown Ferdinand the Magnificent, he toured Chiapas, Mexico in January 2008 with Rudi Galindo and Clowns Without Borders. Ferdinand also appeared in the 2010 New York Clown Theatre Festival at the Brick Theatre.
Other theatre work has mostly been with the theatre/music group Bonejesters, which he co-founded with David Leicht. They performed the original show Bonejesters in 2000 at LaMama ETC in New York, and later that year in Gogol’s The Nose at HERE Arts Center. Since then they have performed their repertory pieces Round and Obscurity Knocks in various venues around New York.
As a member of the Brazilian percussion ensemble Maracatu New York, Nick has performed in major clubs around New York with Cyro Baptista’s Beat The Donkey and performed and recorded with Frank London’s Klezmer Brass All-Stars. Maracatu New York also traveled to Recife, Brazil in 2005 and 2008 for Carnaval performances with Corpos Percussivos, led by Jorge Martins da Silva of the popular group Cascabulho.
As a guitarist, he has performed as a solo singer/songwriter and as an accompanist for National Champion mandolinist Charlie Provenza. In 1999 he moved to New York City and performed as a founding member of the theatre/music group Bonejesters and with the Celtic trio The Crooked Road.
As a composer, Nick co-composed choral music and percussion for Four on the Floor's Elemental in 2007. He has also composed and performed original music for: the No Name Dance Company’s The Sins of Virtue, an adaptation of the Ramayana (Boulder,1996); The Nose and 2+2 by Harold Lehmann and Lake Simons (HERE Arts Center, NYC, 2000); Brooklyn Part I with Bonejesters, (NYC, 2001); and for the student production of A Mind that Doesn’t Change, an adaptation of Isabel Allende’s Simple Maria, at the Dell’Arte School.
In 2011, he is dedicated to launching Circo de Nada, a new producing entity for theatre and music. The first productions are the shadow play The Book of Jonah and Circo's own original street show.