{"id":1177,"date":"2022-04-01T13:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=1177"},"modified":"2025-07-18T08:57:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-18T12:57:17","slug":"nick-vargas","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/about\/contact-directions\/directory\/nick-vargas\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Vargas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nick Vargas<\/strong> (he\/him\/his) is the Executive Director of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wheelockfamilytheatre.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wheelock Family Theatre<\/a> (WFT), greater Boston\u2019s home for professional, intergenerational theatre. He leads the strategic vision for the organization, advancing its artistic, educational, and social justice mission. A director and educator, Nick has helmed numerous productions at WFT that reflect its commitment to storytelling that fosters creativity, empathy, and equity.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"481\" data-end=\"750\">Nick previously served as WFT\u2019s Interim Artistic Director and Associate Artistic &amp; Education Director. Before joining WFT, he was the Casting Director and Artistic Associate at Imagination Stage in Bethesda, MD, one of the nation\u2019s leading theatres for young audiences.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"752\" data-end=\"1017\">He currently serves on the Board of TYA\/USA and holds a BA in Theatre Education and Directing from Emerson College and an MBA in Social Impact with a concentration in Leadership and Organizational Transformation from Boston University\u2019s Questrom School of Business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19544,"template":"","bu_progs_degree-option":[],"dicipline":[127],"school":[],"unit":[136],"program":[],"position":[124],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19544"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":123331,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/1177\/revisions\/123331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"bu_progs_degree-option","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/bu_progs_degree-option?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"dicipline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dicipline?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"school","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/school?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"unit","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/unit?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"program","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/program?post=1177"},{"taxonomy":"position","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cfa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/position?post=1177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}