Finding Nick, a new play written and performed by Nicholas Guest and directed by Lee Sankowich, will begin a six-week engagement on February 19 at the Zephyr Theater, located at Zephyr Theatre, 7456 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood.
Nicholas Guest is a member of the talented Guest family, whose best-known member is perhaps the New York-based writer and humorist Anthony Haden-Guest. His half brother Christopher Guest (also known as the 5th Baron Haden-Guest) is a well-known actor and writer, married to Jamie Lee Curtis and the star of films including This is Spinal Tap (playing lead guitarist Nigel Tufnel), Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and The Princess Bride.
Nicholas Guest was born and raised in New York City. Because his British father worked at the United Nations during his childhood, the family travelled all over Europe. His first professional job was opposite Maureen Stapleton in The Gingerbread Lady, directed by Anthony Perkins. He studied in New York with William Hickey at H.B. Studios, and later with Stella Adler. He started working in the theatre in New York and then segued to television and film work.
Guest’s early years inform much of the action of Finding Nick. Set in the years 1967 through 1969. Playing the son of an English diplomat stationed in New York at the U.N and a Jewish mother, Nick finds that in the “Summer of Love”, just as he is choosing a college, his family has been reassigned to Geneva and will be leaving the Big Apple, causing him to begin a journey to find the person he is going to be. Episodic vignettes populated by entertaining characters he encounters along his way, popular songs (in both English and French) from the period that Guest performs with accompaniment, as well as many humorous situations as he finds his way, highlight the evening.
The play can be seen Thursday and Friday nights only at 8pm during its six-week run. Tickets ($25) are available online at www.plays411.com/nick or by calling 323-960-4420.
