John San Nicolas

Actor, Playwright

A native of San Diego, CA, John first worked at Artists Rep on Jack Goes Boating in 2011. He has since appeared in The Motherfucker with the Hat, Exiles, The Invisible Hand, The Liar, Grand Concourse, A Civil War Christmas, Trevor, The Talented Ones, An Octoroon, The Humans, Magellanica, and Small Mouth Sounds and is proud to be a Resident Artist.

He has also performed at Portland Center Stage (Twist Your Dickens: The Second City’s Christmas Carol, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline), Portland Playhouse (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bingo with the Indians), Third Rail Repertory Theatre (A Noble Failure, The Pain and the Itch), Oregon Children’s Theatre (The Red Badge of Courage, The Pressure Point!), Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Three Sisters), Badass Theatre Company (Invasion!), Miracle Theatre (Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, Sonia Flew), The Anonymous Theatre Company (The Crucible, The Good Doctor, Lend Me a Tenor, Rumors), Clackamas Repertory Theatre (Baskerville), Shaking the Tree Theatre (Far Away), CoHo Productions (Reasons to Be Pretty), Fusion Theatre Co. (Old Times, Disgraced), and several others.

He has appeared on the television show Leverage and has made several appearances on IFC’s Portlandia. He has been a member of Actors’ Equity Association since 2002 and is proud to serve on the Portland AEA Liaison Committee. He also teaches acting and directs on occasion, most recently directing the World Premiere production of Play by D.C. Copeland and teaching scene study classes at Jana Lee Hamblin’s Act Now Studio. John is enormously proud to call Artists Rep home. It’s his favorite place.