Nick Atkins is a theatre maker, playwright and producer. His work has been shortlisted for the Patrick White and Rodney Seaborn Awards, won Best Performing Arts Event at Mardi Gras, and been presented by companies including Sydney Festival, Riverside Theatres, Q Theatre, and Casula Powerhouse. He recently directed Garden of Sound for Sydney Festival ‘26 presented at PHIVE, Parramatta and the Pavilion, Sutherland. Other works include the mobile media performance Dancing Bear in Parramatta Square and Message Bank, presented by Sydney Festival ‘23. Research from these works has been presented at the International Conference on Movement and Computing, Utrecht ’24, and the International Symposium on Electronic Art, Brisbane & Seoul, ‘24 & ‘25. He holds a PhD (Creativity & Cognition Studios, UTS) based on his research is on live performance, digital technologies and enlivening tactics.
He is a casual lecturer and tutor at UNSW, NIDA and serves on the board of directors at Shopfront Youth Arts Co-op as deputy chair. His most recent work, Chatterbot, was commissioned by Performing Lines and Australian Plays Transform. Nick has been a cultural fellow with the City of Parramatta and Create NSW, and artist-in-residence with Bundanon, UNSW, Centre D’Art Marnay Sur-Seine (France), and NES Artist Residency (Iceland). He has held senior artistic and advocacy roles across the arts sector, including as Director, New Work at PP&VA; Chair of Theatre Network NSW; member of Create NSW’s Artform Advisory Board (Theatre); Co-Artistic Director of Crack Theatre Festival (TiNA); and board member of PACT.
