Nicky Fearn has worked in physical theatre since graduating from Flinders University in 1979. She has worked extensively in the Northern Territory since 1980 with the Northern Territory Theatre-in Education Company TIE-DIE, Darwin Theatre Company and Business Unusual. Nicky has worked with The Sydney Theatre Company. She co-founded Skin and Blisters, a circus theatre company based in the UK and toured Europe and Australia for four years.

Now she works regularly in both Europe and Australia. In England Nicky works with the Trestle Theatre Company, Britain’s leading mask and visual company and with Horse and Bamboo Theatre, a horse-drawn physical company touring Hungary, the Czech Republic, Holland and the UK.

Nicky grew up in England and Australia, finishing school in Alice Springs.