Born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Nicholas Bradley Gray (he/they) began his ballet training at Milwaukee Ballet School & Academy. They went on to receive their Bachelor’s Degree in Ballet with a minor in Theatre and Drama from Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. Upon graduation, Nicholas moved to Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he has been living and working for the past six years as a teacher of Ballet and Musical Theatre dance styles at Grand Rapids Ballet School and Grand Rapids Civic Theatre’s School of Theatre Arts, as a freelance Director/Choreographer for Collegiate and Community Theatres, and as a frequent Guest Artist with Grand Rapids Ballet.