Nicholas Packwood, MA

Nicholas Packwood set out on a career in Canada’s entertainment industry in the early 1990s, working with Moses Znaimer on projects including CityTV, Bravo!, Space: The Imagination Station, MuchMusic, the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology and Olympus Management. As the owner of an independent film production company and partner of a digital media production company, he has since had the opportunity to work on film, television and video game productions with a variety of Canadian and international industry players including CBC, BBC, HBO, Paramount Pictures, Nelvana, Corus Entertainment, White Wolf Publishing, Ellis Entertainment, Microsoft/Xbox Live, Epic Games, and Unreal Technology.

Since 2008, Nicholas has been a member of the faculty at George Brown College's postgraduate Digital Design - Game Design program. As one of a handful of academics worldwide teaching narrative design at a postgraduate level, he participated by invitation in Nevigo's 2011 closed beta for articy:draft, a story design tool, offering feedback on the product  and its suitability for a classroom setting. Prior to this,  Nicholas taught for two years in the post-graduate International Fashion Development & Management program teaching Communication Across Cultures, and went on to facilitate a multidisciplinary Fashion Jam game-design project, contribute to curriculum development and course design at the Centre for Arts, Design & Information Technology, and participate in college-level research projects such as the Building Capacity to Measure Essential Employability Skills initiative. Since 2015, Nicholas has taken on the role of Program Coordinator for Screenwriting & Narrative Design at George Brown College’s School of Media and Performing Arts.