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
I’ve launched an account on Cameo! Fans of my voice acting work have regularly asked if I could record greetings, birthday wishes, or messages of advice and encouragement, and now you can request one through the Cameo app.
While my contract does not allow me to use the voice of Von Lycaon in these videos, I hope my natural speaking voice is near enough to the sound you enjoy; and I’ll do my best to make every requested message meaningful. Thank you to every fan for their ongoing support.
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.
The holidays saw me return to Bedford Falls for another run in It’s a Wonderful Life – a Live Radio Play, produced by the artists of STAGEStheatre at the beautiful Brea Curtis. And while I spent three performances playing the menagerie of supporting characters I played last year, this time I also had the honor of three shows playing the richest man in town himself, George Bailey. Getting to bring this role to life in a story that’s meant so much to me over the years surpassed all my expectations, the experience will live deep in my heart and audiences loved it too!
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, Black Desert Online, Crusaders of Light, and Book of Demons; plus talking animals in the family film Toby’s Big Adventure, and anime dubs such as Bullet/Bullet, Synduality: Noir and Go! Go! Loser Ranger! He can also be heard dubbing Netflix documentary series Chef’s Table: Pastry, Russian horror-action movie The Last Vampire Princess, and the Malaysian children’s film Upin & Ipin: The Lone Gibbon Kris. 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 Reclaiming Friendship Park. 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. He is the performer behind “Alvin the Alien,” part of a collection of chatbots developed by Meta. But his roots in acting are on stage, where favorite roles include Prospero in The Tempest, Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, and Renfield in Dracula. 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 60 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 web series pilot “Ass in Assassin” and 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.
Room 9 Entertainment (Thank You For Smoking) purchased his comedy screenplay Queen Lara, which earned him membership in the Writers Guild of America; and he was hired to write the Crunchyroll anime pilot Children of Ether, 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., and is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA and the WGA.
Thurkettle’s Theatrical representative is Elyah Doryon at Coast to Coast Talent Group. For voicework, contact Luanne Regis at RegalVO. 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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