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Watch MARRIAGE COUNSELING FOR FRIENDS a web series about friends in couples therapy deepening their platonic friendship. Written, produced and starring Kimia Behpoornia and Nick Luciano.
Watch the unscripted comedy short about the former life of a Blockbuster Video employee.
Follow Nick’s Father on Instagram and watch the wholesome gaming content they create together.
Watch MARRIAGE COUNSELING FOR FRIENDS a web series about friends in couples therapy deepening their platonic friendship. Written, produced and starring Kimia Behpoornia and Nick Luciano.
Watch the unscripted comedy short about the former life of a Blockbuster Video employee.
Follow Nick’s Father on Instagram and watch the wholesome gaming content they create together.
Guice Mann aka Charlie Malta is a prolific artist, painter, illustrator, filmmaker, editor who prioritizes time to meditate at least twice a day. What was once a hustle and go-go-go mentality surrounding his creativity leading him to feeling miserable and believing he was a weak person for needing sleep, has now been transformed into a chill peaceful creative existence with his parents in Cleveland Ohio.
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Charlie’s recreation of the Red Room from Twin Peaks
An unscripted comedy short about the former life of a Blockbuster Video employee. DP: Brandon Kelly // Featuring Lois Melcher // Written and Produced by Nick Luciano
MARRIAGE COUNSELING FOR FRIENDS
A web-series about friends who go to couples therapy to deepen their platonic friendship. Written and Produced by KIMIA BEHPOORNIA & NICK LUCIANO // Directed by TAMERA FIELDS // Starring KIMIA BEHPOORNIA, NICK LUCIANO, ANNA RAJO // Co-Produced by HAILEY CHAVEZ, CATHERINE MCCABE, ANNA RAJO // DP Brandon Kelly & Kyle Lau
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VERY NICK AND ZACH
A short about friends who hurt each other’s feelings when they can’t agree to take a photo together at a restaurant in the desert. Starring Zach Fairless, Nick Luciano, Charlene deGuzman // Written by Zach Fairless, Nick Luciano // Producer: Catherine McCabe // Director: Carlos Medina // DP: Nick Rasmussen
VIDEO GAME ANIMATIONS REENACTED BY MY DAD
When a son convinced his legendary Father to reenact animations from video games, it resulted in videos that have accumulated millions of views online and have been featured on Kotaku, GQ, Mashable, Huffington Post, the front page of Reddit, and tweeted by Nintendo and Blizzard Entertainment. The father/son duo have posted videos regularly on Instagram for the Overwatch community
DANCING FOR STRANGERS
Two men ask strangers in public to clap for them while they dance
UCB “BEST OF SKETCH” INTERMISSION
An Intermission series Written and Directed by Nick for the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre during Friday Night Best Of Sketch featuring KIRBY HOWELL-BAPTISTE (Cruella, Killing Eve, The Good Place)
SHOOTING STRANGERS created by UCB Digital Comedy Team THE BUZZARDS
A UCB Digital Comedy unscripted web-series about the making of a short film with a supporting cast of strangers we met in public
Los Angeles-based comedy duo Very Nick and Zach (Zach Fairless and Nick Luciano) have performed numerous live shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in Los Angeles including The Very Nick and Zach Show: Now Is Tight, UCB’s Starpunch Showcase, Is America Tight?, NBCUniversal’s The UCB Show Season 2 streaming on Seeso. Other performance credits include the Joshua Tree Comedy Festival in 2016 and 2017 and UCB’s Del Close Marathon. Nick and Zach have also made videos of themselves dancing for strangers and are currently finishing a short film that they shot in the desert.
Very Nick and Zach at UCB Sketch Showdown – “Zach and Billy Elliott”
LIVE SKETCH
Upright Citizens Brigade NY – Del Close Marathon
Very Nick and Zach in the Desert Sun – “Comics at Joshua Tree festival make ’em laugh”
NICK AND ZACH DANCE FOR STRANGERS
“Uber Driver Deep Breath Chillpra”
The Very Nick and Zach Show: Now Is Tight at Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre
Nick currently seeks Management and Theatrical Representation
Nick’s unscripted comedy videos include Nick’s Dad reenacting animations from video games, dancing for people in public and making the mundane feel magical. Nick wrote and produced for the UCB Digital Comedy team The Buzzards where they asked strangers in public on-the-fly to play all of the supporting roles in a short film.
VIDEO GAME ANIMATIONS REENACTED BY NICK’S DAD
SHOOTING STRANGERS created by THE BUZZARDS
NICK AND ZACH DANCE FOR STRANGERS
DREW’S SILVIO DANTE IMPRESSION
CONTACTING JUDITH LIGHT
ASKING PEOPLE ON PERISCOPE TO SHOW ME THEIR CEILING FAN
In 2015, Nick asked his Father to reenact 148 taunt animations from Super Smash Bros and he said “okay” without hesitation. Videos they’ve made since have received front page status on Reddit and were written up by Kotaku, GQ, Mashable, Huffington Post, NowThis News.
— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) May 1, 2015
Sketch comedy and performances at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. Nick wrote on the House Sketch Teams “Judith” and “Gorgeous” at UCB and has produced shows and at the Theatre since 2015.
JUDITH – a UCB Maude Team (2015-2017)
GORGEOUS – a UCB Maude Team (2017-2018)
The sketch duo “Very Nick and Zach” performed at Joshua Tree Comedy Festival and at UCB. Shows including The Very Nick and Zach Show: Now Is Tight at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, UCB’s Starpunch, Is America Tight?, Del Close Marathon and Seeso/NBCUniversal’sThe UCB Show Season 2.