Nicky Jasper (she/they) is a Chicago-based actor, choreographer, and teacher. She graduated from East Carolina University with a BFA in Professional Acting in 2013. She has been training in stage combat since 2010 and is a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors. Nicky is a founding member of and lead instructor with Open Gate Movement Arts, a stage combat and movement company in Chicago whose mission is to provide accessible and quality stage combat training to movement artists. She is an adjunct faculty member in the Stage Combat Department at Columbia College Chicago. Nicky also works as a part of the motion capture team at Raven Software.

After graduating, Nicky was a part of the cast at Horn in the West, where she also served as Fight Swing. She later spent two summers in the cast of Tecumseh! Outdoor Drama, where she not only served as Fight Captain and Assistant Fight Choreographer, but was also the first female-identifying actor to have an on-stage featured fight in the show’s long history. Other theatre credits include Gruesome Playground Injuries (Carolina Actor’s Studio Theatre), The Tale of the Little Gentleman (Children’s Theatre of Charlotte), Detroit (Actor’s Theatre of Charlotte), Wasteland Hero (Reutan Collective), and Fight Quest 2 & 4 (Otherworld Theatre Company).

Nicky currently serves as the Coordinator for the National Stage Combat Workshop. She can be reached in this capacity at nscwcoordinator@safd.org.