Nick Slie (he/him), Mondo Bizarro, Creative Response Network

Nick Slie is a New Orleans-born performer, producer, and cultural organizer and is the Co-Artistic Director of Mondo Bizarro. Since 2002, Nick has toured a wide array of imaginative projects to art centers, universities, and outdoor locations in 38 states across the country and abroad. He is most proud, however, of the work he does at home, where the land kisses the water. Nick’s creative endeavors range from interdisciplinary solo performances to large-scale community festivals, from innovative digital storytelling projects to site-responsive productions. For close to twenty years, he has been passionately engaged in collaborating across sectors on a vast array of local performance and arts-based civic engagement projects. From 2004-2008 he served on the Executive Committee of Alternate ROOTS, is the former board chair for the Network of Ensemble Theaters, and currently serves on the boards for Goat in the Road and The North American Cultural Laboratory. Nick recently directed Clear Creek Creative's Ezell: Ballad of a Land Man and is developing his latest project Invisible Rivers.