Audition Prep

Hickory Arts offers Amateur and Professional preparation for upcoming Film, Music, or Theatrical Auditions (equity, film, NCTC/SETC, grade school, college, community theatre); Admittance, Competition, Position, or Scholarship. #auditionprep @hickoryarts Book now

Piano Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Piano Lessons — Traditional or Contemporary. Through exercises that explore the interpretation of lead sheets and chord symbols, Hickory Arts can help you to improve your performance, harmonic vocabulary, and composition/arranging skills. Students will master the basics of keyboard technique and chord voicings and gain an understanding of ...

Artist Development

Artist Development is for "Everything Artists," managing a diversified portfolio of talent and interests. What’s an “Everything Artist?” Well, Hickory Arts was formed by a variety of working and teaching artists talented and skilled in more than one way who have committed to helping develop other jacks of all trades; singers who are songwriters who ...

Voice Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Voice Lessons — Contemporary, Theatrical, or Classical; Technique and Vocal Coaching. Hickory Arts offers you the most comprehensive voice education to be found anywhere. We provide individualized instruction in all contemporary music styles including jazz, pop, rock, and theater, and prepare you for both concert performance and studio ...

Violin Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Violin Lessons. Hickory Arts offers you the most diverse and contemporary string education to be found anywhere. We provide individualized instruction in Fiddle, Violin, Viola, and more. We offer you professional faculty who are specialists in each discipline; sessions specifically designed to enhance your talents and abilities and ...

Acting Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Acting Lessons for Stage or Screen. Private, one-on-one sessions are weekly and employ “The Method” (The Stanislavsky System). Emphases include human behavior, interpersonal communication, threading, choices, between the lines, physicality, empathy, character study, musical theatre applications, and the dos and don’ts of interview and audition protocols and procedures. ...

Guitar Lessons

Hickory Arts offers Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced Guitar Lessons — Electric or Acoustic; Traditional or Contemporary; Self-Accompaniment. To become a truly accomplished guitarist, you first have to master the basics. Players that have an intimate understanding of chords, scales, blues, and rock and improvisation techniques are more comfortable in different musical situations and are more ...

Shakespeare

I never thought that I would meet my equal, but I concede I have been bested by the best.Shakespeare, Something Rotten! William Shakespeare, played by Corey Knighton, is the ultimate rock star of the Renaissance… and beginning to feel the pressure of it all. Though outwardly confident, Shakespeare is gradually losing his cool, trying to ...

Nigel Bottom

Oh—is that your folio?Shakespeare, Something Rotten! Nigel Bottom, played by Branden Nuhfer, is the troupe’s primary writer, and there’s little doubt that his talent rivals and perhaps outshines Shakespeare’s. Nigel is very sensitive, so when he meets Portia, he falls fast. The younger of the two brothers, Nigel has two great passions – to love ...

Nick Bottom

You will not make an ass of me.Nick to Shakespeare, Something Rotten! Nick Bottom, played by Scott Hudson, is Nigel’s brother and leader of the acting troupe. He’s driven by success, but above all, his ability to support his most loved ones. That pursuit leads him down a rabbit hole of trying to outwrite and ...