Wheelock Family Theatre Names Nick Vargas as Executive Director
Wheelock Family Theatre Names Nick Vargas as Executive Director
An experienced theatre professional with a sincere and proven commitment to creating high-quality, professional theatre for multigenerational audiences leads Wheelock Family Theatre.
Boston University College of Fine Arts and Wheelock Family Theatre are proud to announce the appointment of leader, educator, and artist, Nick Vargas, as Executive Director of Wheelock Family Theatre at BU. Established in 1981, Wheelock Family Theatre has provided affordable and award-winning, professional theatre and theatre arts education to families in the greater Boston area through an unwavering commitment to access, diversity, and inclusion. The Executive Director provides essential oversight of Wheelock’s performance activities and education programs.
Michael Jennings Mahoney and Kristian Espiritu star as Mr. and Mrs. Popper in Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of Mr. Popper’s Penguins, based on the novel by Richard and Florence Atwater. The production ran from February 10 through March 3, 2024. Photo by Jake Belcher
A scene from Wheelock Family Theatre’s production of A Wrinkle In Time, which runs through May 11, 2024. Photo by Jake Belcher
Maia Ettinger (from left) as Pack, Bonnie Shao as Quack, and Echo Kaufman as Lack in the Wheelock Family Theatre production of Make Way for Ducklings, the Musical, which was on stage through March 12, 2023. Photo by Dave Greene
Vargas is an experienced theatre professional with a sincere and proven commitment to creating high-quality, professional theatre for multigenerational audiences. Prior to joining the Wheelock Family Theatre staff in 2016, Vargas spent three years as Casting Director and Artistic Associate at the renowned Imagination Stage in Maryland. At Imagination Stage, he cast 40 productions (including seven world premieres), and managed touring productions.
Although Vargas has served Wheelock Family Theatre in a variety of roles over the past seven years (including as associate artistic director), he has been instrumental to the post-pandemic return of live, in-person arts experiences to the greater Boston area. Last year, Wheelock Family Theatre reached nearly 32,000 Boston-area audience members (including more than 14,000 children on school field trips) and engaged more than 600 children in summer and school break education programs. Both an arts administrator and a practicing theatre artist, Vargas recently directed The Addams Family for Wheelock Family Theatre.
Vargas holds a BA in Theatre Education from Emerson College and an MBA (with a concentration in Social Impact) from Boston University Questrom School of Business.