Nick Slie is a New Orleans-born performer, director, producer and cultural organizer. He is the Co-founding Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro and a Professor of Theater at Nunez Community College. His creative endeavors range from interdisciplinary solo performances to intimate community gatherings, from innovative digital storytelling projects to large-scale site-responsive productions. Since 2002, Nick’s wide array of imaginative projects have toured to art centers, universities, and outdoor locations in 40 states across the country and abroad.
Nick’s family has loved and listened to the mysteries of Southeast Louisiana for ten generations. For over two decades, he has been passionately engaged in his hometown of Bulbancha/New Orleans, collaborating across sectors on a vast array of local performance and arts-based civic engagement endeavors. Interdisciplinary projects like the I-10 Witness Project, Loup Garou, Race Peace, Cry You One, the Gulf Coast Climate Justice Convening, and, most recently, Invisible Rivers have effectively catalyzed emotional engagement in the pressing issues of his home, and in so doing, created space for transformative action across race, class and sector.
From 2004- 2008, Nick served on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS. He is the former board chair for the Network of Ensemble Theaters, was Co-Director of the Art and Survival Gathering, and currently serves on the boards of Goat in the Road and the North American Cultural Laboratory. He recently directed the seven-state tour of Clear Creek Creative’s Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man and is deep in the dream space for Mondo Bizarro’s current interdisciplinary project, Invisible Rivers.
