1 -  What are your basic stats? Name: Nicolas Gamboa, Age: 30, Weight: 160lbs,Height: 5’11”, Ethnicity: Latino from Bogota Colombia.

2 - Have you always wanted to be an actor or work in the Performing Arts? For as long as I can remember.

3 - Right now Chicago is considered, “the theatre capitol of America”. What are your thoughts about this? I believe it to be true. Not only that, but every time, more and more the community is opening to diversion and directors are taking chances and utilizing new creative routes by spicing their plays with ethnic actors.

4 - Who are 3-5 of your favorite playwrights/why? José Rivera - I have always seen him as the Gabriel García Márquez of theater. I guess that could also be because he worked and was mentored by him. Nilo Cruz- I believe he offers the actor the capability to fly trough language and action. Martin Mcdonah- I am enchanted with how subtle his comedy is….you can be in the most of dramatic moments and somehow he finds a way to make you laugh laudly without taking you away from the emotional tension of the situation, and the always great Bill Shakes. (Do I really have to elaborate?)

5 - What’s your favorite play/why? My favorite plays are Macbeth and Salome. I like tragedies that are triggered by human ambition that truly reveal till what point is the human willing to go to acquire it.

6 - Favorite Chicago Director? Theatre Company? I don’t have a favorite yet, but Cecilie is right up there! I don’t have a favorite company, I am in search for projects that attract me at the moment and I am too new to the city to really be able to venture that statement.

Beauty of the Father by Nilo Cruz, directed by Cecilie Keenan closes November 19th! Only THREE show left. Performances are Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8pm. For tickets go to: www.UrbanTheaterChicago.org or call 312-239-8783.