Nick Medina, a 2007 Fillmore High School graduate, got his first professional role as Vissarion Belinsky in the Shotgun Players version of Tom Stoppard’s “The Coast Of Utopia: Voyage”. The play ran from March 14, 2012 to April 29, 2012 with a total of 34 performances.

Nick gained the role as V. Belinsky while interning at the small Berkeley, California theater group, Shotgun Players and auditioned after being coaxed by director Patrick Dooley as a joke, not thinking anything would come of it. Well, something did come of it, to his surprise he was cast in one of the starring roles.

The “Coast of Utopia: Voyage” is the first in a three - play trilogy and is a dense play about Russia’s struggle for freedom set in the 1833 to 1844 era. Nick, being one of the youngest cast members, did a fantastic job. The Berkeley Daily Planet released a review of the play on April 20, 2012 and had this to say “…One performance stands above the rest: Nick Medina as V. Belinsky, the impoverished, less-educated revolutionary and literary critic, in the midst of aristocrats. Shy and awkward, ragged and a little dumpy among these lithe patricians, when he is aroused his rhetoric about the Revolution is entrancing and makes one want to rise to the Marseillaise. Medina knows how to play Stoppard: he directed a production of his “Travesties” as few years ago”. Another review from For All Events by Richard Connema said, “Nick Medina gives an electrifying performance…”

You may remember him for his role as Elwood P. Dowd in the Sespe Players version of Harvey in 2004. Nick is the son of Ramon and Julie Medina of Piru and in May of 2011 he graduated from UC Berkeley, majoring in English. He resides in Berkeley, California where he is pursuing his theatrical dream.