South of Broadway

Nick Smith is a BBC and British Equity-trained actor who has been coaching adults and children for more than ten years.

Nick was founder and managing director of The Film School Scotland from 1997 to 2002. During that time the school trained over 2,000 actors, writers and filmmakers, many of whom went on to study the subject at college or gain work in the industry. In 2003 he moved to South Carolina, where he has worked with film and theatre companies as an instructor, director and actor.

He has taught classes with the Actor's Theatre of South Carolina, North Charleston Cultural Arts, Creative Spark, the Lowcountry Senior Center, Charleston Day School and Charles Towne Child Development Center.

Nick's career has involved all disciplines of film, theatre, TV, radio and print. His credits include Testament, a short movie set on death row that was showcased at the Edinburgh International Film Festival NBX and Milk Treading, a stage adaptation of his novel. He has worked on films as diverse as The House of Mirth (a period drama with Dan Aykroyd, Gillian Anderson and Eric Stoltz), The Little Vampire (with Jonathan Lipnicki and Richard E. Grant), Women Talking Dirty (with Helena Bonham Carter) and The Road to Glory (with Robert Duvall and Michael Keaton). Most recently he worked in the casting/extras casting department for Army Wives and Reinventing the Wheelers.