Hello and Welcome!
My name’s Nicholas Thurkettle, and I’m best known as a SAG-AFTRA voice actor in games and anime, but I also act extensively on stage, film, and TV. I’ve been directed by an Academy Award-winning filmmaker while also doing indie films that cost less than a used car. Additionally, I’m a WGA screenwriter who has written/directed multiple short films and produced two independent features.
I’ve worked in a wide array of media – published prose, podcasting, corporate communications/training, and beyond. I teach and guest lecture on screenwriting, storytelling, Shakespeare performance, and voice acting. Got a project that could use an experienced performer and storyteller? Use my contact form below and let’s talk!
Recent News
Proud to announce I’m once again repped for my screenwriting and filmmaking work! Marc Manus of PERSISTENT will be handling managerial duties for me and his guidance has already put a booster rocket under my efforts to tell stories in Hollywood. We’ve made some miraculous headway with a thriller project and I hope I will have more to share with you on that soon; but in the meantime I’m learning all the wisdom I can from a man who has a pretty astonishing track record for getting writers to a payday. Grateful for the partnership so far and here’s hoping it blossoms for us both.
One of the most exciting projects in my voice acting career has finally dropped after many months of secrecy. I am the English voice of Pinnec, Rito Warrior and one of the playable heroes in the action-packed new musou game “Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment” for Nintendo Switch 2.
As a lover of gaming, my relationship with the “Legend of Zelda” franchise goes all the way back to childhood. And so it is profoundly fulfilling to add a creative contribution to the saga.
I’ve launched an account on Letterboxd. I resisted for a long time, fearing it could be a time sink, but I’ve always felt the urge to put my reactions to film and TV into words and it’s played a crucial role in my development as a writer over the years. I’ll largely be focusing on older films as well as my long-term project to run the Classic seasons of Doctor Who. Feel free to follow!
Bio
Nicholas Thurkettle is most widely known as the original English voice of Von Lycaon (from release through version 1.6) in the videogame Zenless Zone Zero and the voice of Pinnec in Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment. He voices a wide variety of characters in games like MapleStory PC and Black Desert Online as well as anime dubs such as Bullet/Bullet, Synduality: Noir and Go! Go! Loser Ranger! He can also be heard dubbing the Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table: Pastry. A SAG-AFRTA member, he stars in independent feature films like Moon Students, To a Dead Friend (from Sundance alumni Mike Sakamoto,) Cloudy With a Chance of Sunshine, Revelator, and more. His TV debut came on the season 2 finale of Wild West Chronicles. His role in the sci-fi/horror short “Prefigured” earned him nominations for Best Supporting Actor at FilmQuest and Best Actor at the Nightmares Film Festival; it now streams on the scifi channel DUST. But his roots in acting are on stage, where favorite roles include Prospero in The Tempest, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, Renfield in Dracula, and George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play. He performed for five seasons with the outdoor summer festival Shakespeare Orange County, also serving as Artistic Associate and Casting Director, and currently leads the Modjeska Shakespeare Players.
Short films directed by him have played at over 65 festivals and counting, winning awards such as Best Director, People’s Choice – Best Short Film, Best Sci-Fi Short and Best Comedy Short. His short “The Dinner Scene” is distributed by IndieFlix, and he has also directed the music video “Sitting on the Launchpad” for the band Freefall Rescue. He is a producer of the paranormal drama feature The Buildout from writer/director Zeshaan Younus, now streaming via Ethos Releasing, and co-produced Adam Stovall’s horror-romance feature A Ghost Waits, distributed by Arrow Films and currently streaming on Shudder.
A WGA Member screenwriter, he sold his comedy screenplay Queen Lara to Room 9 Entertainment (Thank You For Smoking.) He wrote the anime pilot Children of Ether for Crunchyroll, which premiered on over 300 U.S. movie screens as part of Anime Movie Night. He has three books published – short story collection Stages of Sleep and the sci-fi thrillers Seeing by Moonlight and A Sickness in Time; the latter two co-written with M.F. Thomas. He also worked with Thomas as Senior Story Editor for the first 38 episodes of his podcast My Dark Path, exploring strange stories from history, science, and the paranormal.
He is a writer, producer, director, and performer with the sci-fi/fantasy/horror anthology audio drama podcast Earbud Theater. And he narrated over 100 new short stories and novellas from contemporary horror/sci-fi authors for the Parsec Award-winning Brick Moon Fiction Podcast. His plays have been produced on regional stages in Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, West Virginia, Maryland, and throughout California, including at the OC-Centric New Play Festival and the Hollywood Fringe Festival. His one-act play The Rothko is represented for licensing by publisher Heartland Plays and is his first play to be produced internationally, at a festival in Taipei, Taiwan.
Thurkettle guest lectures, teaches workshops, and conducts private coaching in voice acting, storytelling, and screenwriting. He has spoken on panels at the Phoenix and Borrego Springs Film Festivals, Creative Screenwriting Expo, and the Willamette Writers Conference, and judged for both UCLA’s MFA Screenwriting Competition and the Nicholl Fellowship. He spent five years in Short Film Programming for the Newport Beach Film Festival and regularly consults with filmmakers on their festival submission strategies. He currently works as a Program Coordinator with the non-profit arts council Arts Orange County, managing public art searches and grant/fellowship programs.
He has volunteered for the Second Harvest Food Bank and Laura’s House, and captained a team for the Orange County Out of the Darkness Walk raising money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He graduated Bradley University with a degree in Theatre and Music which included a semester abroad at Hull University in the U.K.
Thurkettle’s Theatrical representative is Elyah Doryon at Coast to Coast Talent Group. For voicework, contact Luanne Regis at RegalVO. Managed for Writing/Filmmaking by Marc Manus of Persistent. For convention/fan appearances, contact Kris Jones at the booking agency CelebWorx. For any other professional inquiries, use the Contact Form below.
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