Though Nick graduated at Illinois State University with a B.A. in Acting, he studied Theatre Education for three years. He worked with the Bloomington-Normal YMCA and taught Creative Drama and Theatre to children in Elementary, Middle, and High School. In addition to teaching multiple makeup workshops at Illinois High School Theatre Festival, he was a President of Freestage, a registered student organization, which is a pre-professional theatre company. Through Freestage, Nick created the children's theatre piece the "Eric Carle Collaboration" as well as served with Illinois State Theatre Outreach Program, a sub-committee of Freestage, which is devoted to raising awareness of social issues through theatre. Below, is a series of photographs of "Teacher" Nick.