Nick Chambers

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Nick Chambers
Birth nameNicholas Alexander Chambers
Born (1985-03-15) March 15, 1985 (age 37)
Worcester, MA, United States
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Years active2009–present
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Website www.chamberscomedy.com

Nick Chambers is an American stand-up comedian, actor, storyteller, songwriter and motion graphics artist. He is currently performing stand-up comedy in a number of venues weekly all across New England. [1]

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Education

Chambers received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Illustration and Animation from the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University. [2]

Stand-up career

Chambers started his career at an open mic in a downtown Boston comedy club venue on his birthday in 2009 and is currently performing regularly in clubs across New England. [3]

Stage Time Comedy Club

Between 2012 and 2015, Chambers founded and ran the Stage Time Comedy Club with weekly shows in Worcester, Massachusetts alongside comedians Shaun Connolly, Doug Guertin, and Ryan Staples. James Creelman was a regular on the show and always left the audience in stitches. [4] Chambers has performed with national headliners such as Cameron Esposito, Kyle Dunnigan and Bridget Everett.

The Comedy Studio

Chambers is a regular performer at The Comedy Studio at Harvard Square in Cambridge, MA and was chosen to be Comic-in-Residence for August in 2014. As Comic-in-Residence, comedians open each show at the club for the entire month. [5]

Acting career

As an actor, Chambers appears in the feature films Good Kids , [6] Hedgehog [7] and was cast in the lead role of the drama It's Not Funny Anymore. In 2016, he also appeared in the Visa commercial "Race to Kickoff". [8] [9] [10]

Old School Game Show

In 2015, Chambers joined the cast of the Boston-based Old School Game Show, an alt-trivia variety show which takes place monthly at OBERON in Cambridge, MA. He writes, produces, and performs content for song-based games during the show. On February 4, 2017, Old School Game Show appeared at Boston's historic Wilbur Theatre. [11] [12]

The 90's Party

With Felicia Morgan, Chambers began The 90's Party, an annual celebration of music, fashion, and pop culture from the 1990s. Together, they produced a number of videos promoting the event beginning in 2013. [13]

Side projects

Fake Song Friday

Since June 2015, every Friday on Instagram, Chambers posts 15-second music videos for songs he composed based on vintage photos. These photos are provided by comedian Ken Reid, who collects them from estate sales and flea markets. [14]

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  2. ↑ "LUCAD Animation & Motion Media" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Chambers Comedy" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  4. ↑ Sargent, Patrick (March 6, 2016). "Album on the way, Nick Chambers 'hot commodity' in Boston comedy". Worcester Sun. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Comedy Studio". The Comedy Studio. April 2, 2016. Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  6. ↑ "Good Kids, IMDB". IMDb . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  7. ↑ "Hedgehog, IMDB". IMDb . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
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  10. ↑ "It's Not Funny Anymore by Mark Phinney with Norm Laviolette" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
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  13. ↑ "The 90's Party" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.
  14. ↑ "Fake Song Friday" . Retrieved April 2, 2016.[ dead link ]
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