Travis Nicholson

Travis Nicholson is an actor and producer who grew up in Garland, Texas, and later in Nashville, where he began writing songs and playing guitar, spending time in a band called The Swindlers before filmmaking won out. In 1999 he joined the film program at Watkins Film School to study writing and directing, and after two years he interned on the Coen brothers' O Brother, Where Art Thou? Los Angeles work followed, on The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty, and he has also worked with Clint Eastwood, Harmony Korine, D.A. Pennebaker, Walter Salles and William Monahan. His acting covers more than twenty film and television projects, and he has produced features, a pilot, shorts and commercials. The Arm, a short he produced, won Best Comedic Short at Sundance in 2012, and Super Zeroes, which he co-wrote, produced and starred in, took an audience award at the Nashville Film Festival. Listening drew praise from The Hollywood Reporter and Moviemaker.