Nicholson Billey

ARTIST RESUME / CV

Performance And Experience

  • Imperfect Relationality Workshop - Interdisciplinary Arts Lab 2023 
    Movement Research, New York, NY - (via) International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency - August 2023 - Workshop Facilitator.
  • International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC) Residency
    Artists Residency - Wallkill, NY & New York, NY - July / August 2023 - IIAC Artist Residency Participant.
  • The Yanomami Struggle: Art and Activism in the Amazon
    Public reading of the UNDRIP - The Shed - New York, NY - April 2023 - A first session reader of the UNDRIP.
  • Este Cate - Play Reading - theatre KAPOW
    Expanding The Canon 3: a play reading circle - Manchester, NH - February 2023 - Online play reading and discussion.
  • Stomp Dance Over Reclamation
    Performance - Museum of Modern Art - A Variety Show Celebrating Diane Burns and the American Indian Community Hose - New York, NY - January 2023 - Performer.
  • Stomp Dance Over Reclamation
    Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022 - Spoken Word Competition Finalist / First Prize, Experimental Spoken Word Category / Grand Prize Winner, Spoken Word Category / Screened online - October to November, 2022. Writer / Performer.
  • Ugly Brown - Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022
    Spoken Word Competition Finalist - Screened online - October to November, 2022. Writer / Performer. 
  • Este Cate - Video - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022. 
    Short Narrative - Screened online - October to November, 2022.Writer / Performer. 
  • Safe Harbors, NYC, Workshop - Curator / Participant - American Indian Community House, Inc. NY
    Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, October 2022.
  • Reading & Discussion: Pena Bonita - Curator / Artist Assistant - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC
    Indian Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, October 2022
  • Savage Conversations - Staged Reading - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC
    Indian Summer Arts Residency Program 2022, Governors Island, New York, NY, September 2022. Staged reading curator and performer.
  • Este Cate - Performance - Reflections Of Native Voices
    Under Construction - Safe Harbors, NYC, New York, NY, June 2022. Writer and Performer.
  • Collective Voices: Community Talks - Video Direction
    American Indian Community House, Inc., New York, NY, November 2021.
  • Este Cate - Video Presentation - Reflections Of Native Voices
    Theater Festival - Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, February 2021 - Writer, Producer, and Performer.
  • Don’t Feed The Indians: A Divine Comedy Pageant - Performance
    Don’t Feed The Indians Ensemble - Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY - 2014 to present & ongoing - Red Dirt (performance role).
  • It Came From Across The Pond - Podcast
    Amerinda, New York, NY, July 2020 - Ernie (performance role).
  • Theater & Performance Panel
    100 Years | 100 Women Initiative - Panelist - Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY February, 2020 Safe Harbors NYC Performer / Panelist.
  • Mnisose - Staged Reading - Reflections Of Native Voices Theater Festival
    Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January, 2020 - Charbonneau / Carl (performance role).
  • Este Cate -  Staged Reading - Reflections Of Native Voices Theater Festival
    Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January, 2020 - Writer and Performer.
  • Back Pack - Studio Showing
    Safe Harbors NYC, New York, NY, January 2019 - Writer and performer.
  • Brown Body - Performance - Thinking Its Presence
    The Ephemeral Archive Conference - University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ - October 2017 - Writer and Performer.
  • Brown Body -  Performance - Gender Daze Series
    The Center: The LGB&T Community Center, New York, NY, May 2017 - Writer and Performer.


  • Skills
    - Acting, writing, directing, comedy, improvisation, facilitation, volleyball, basketball, ping pong, tennis. 
  • Performance Organizations
    - Don’t Feed The Indians Ensemble - Member - Safe Harbors, NYC.
    - Team Member - Safe Harbors, NYC.
  • Education
    - Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY - MFA in Performance + Performance Studies.
    - New York University, New York, NY - MA in Drama Therapy.
    - University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK - BFA in Dance Pedagogy.
  • Licensure / Certification
    - Licensed Creative Arts Therapist - New York State Education Department.
    - Registered Drama Therapist - North American Drama Therapy Association.
  • Other Related Capacities
    - Practicing Registered Drama Therapist - Licensed New York State Creative Arts Therapist.
    - Guest Lecture - Interweave Indigeneity with drama therapy theory and methodology to generate Indigenous experiential, therapeutic, clinical, and or performance material.
    - Presenter / Participant - Safe Harbors, NYC Native American Directors Lab for Emerging Native American Directors. San Francisco and Minneapolis.
    - Assistant to Master Class Instructor - La MaMa Umbria: 2022 International Symposium for Directors - Assistant to master class instructor, Murielle Borst-Tarrant, Safe Harbors, NYC, Artistic Director, with the facilitation of daily, one-week instructional sessions that utilized Native storyweaving as the theoretical and methodological foundation for theater performance and direction.
    - Artist In Residence - American Indian Community House, Inc. NYC, Indian Summer Arts Residency Program, September to October 2022.  Curate and participate as artist in residence for artist-in-residence community events.
  • Awards
    Video Writer / Performer - Stomp Dance Over Reclamation - The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image 2022 Spoken Word Competition Finalist / First Prize, Experimental Spoken Word Category / Grand Prize Winner, Spoken Word Category / Screened online - October to November, 2022.

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