Cook County News Herald

Jackson Nickolay earns role in Russian play





 

 

Jackson Nickolay of Hovland had a role in The
Seagull
by Anton Chekhov, Russia’s greatest playwright. The classic drama was on stage at Northwestern College, Orange City, Iowa, Nov. 11-13 and 18-20.

Director Robert Hubbard has set the 1898 Russian play in 1920s Romania, in the Carpathian Mountains, which he visited last spring as a guest of Northwestern’s Romania Semester program. Jack will perform the role of Shamrayev.

Jack, a freshman majoring in theater, was an intern at the Grand Marais Playhouse and a recipient of the 2010 Playhouse college scholarship.

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