Meet Nicholas
Hometown: Richmond, Virginia
Nicholas Patterson began his training at the Richmond Ballet School in 2005 at the age of eight. After seven years in the School, he went to the Boston Ballet Summer Intensive and was accepted into the Pre–professional Program. After a year in the Preprofessional Program, he was asked to join the Boston Ballet Trainee Program, where he spent two years before being offered a job at the Orlando Ballet Company. Nicholas spent four seasons at The Orlando Ballet before joining Philadelphia Ballet during the 2019/20 Season as a member of the Corps de Ballet. He was promoted to Demi Soloist for the 2022/23 Season and then promoted to Soloist for the 2024/25 Season. His favorite roles performed with Philadelphia Ballet include – Bronze Idol in Angel Corella’s La Bayadère, Lead Man in Stanton Welch’s Clear, Third Movement Lead in George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, and Puck in Sir Frederick Asthon’s The Dream. Nicholas’s awards include International Ballet Competitions Varna IBC (2016, 2018), Beijing IBC (2019), and Jackson IBC (2023).