Nico Greetham Swaps Power Ranger For Scripture In Raw Queer Short Film “Those Who Prosper”
Nico Greetham, the former Power Rangers star turned Ryan Murphy regular, is taking on one of his most personal roles yet. In Those Who Prosper, a new short film written and directed by Tony Tacheny, Greetham plays Aaron, a college sophomore who falls for the charismatic leader of a church community and spirals into religious self-destruction.
A romance that becomes a reckoning
The film follows Aaron as he’s drawn into a tight-knit evangelical group and begins a secret relationship with Isaac, the congregation’s golden boy, played by Tacheny himself. What starts as an intense connection turns dark as Aaron internalises the church’s teachings about his sexuality. He begins to self-harm in an attempt to “cure” himself of his queerness, and his two worlds, faith and desire, are forced into collision.
It’s a story drawn from lived experience. According to the film’s official campaign page, Tacheny frames the project as an exploration of “loving God and wanting boys,” and the horror of surrendering your body in pursuit of redemption. The weight of that premise sits in the detail: conversion rhetoric repackaged as purity, and intimacy that becomes either worship or a weapon.
Greetham has built a career on roles that don’t shy away from queer storytelling. After his breakout as the Yellow Ranger in Power Rangers Ninja Steel, he appeared in the final season of Love, Victor and landed a lead role in American Horror Story Season 10. He’s also starred in the Sundance drama Dinner in America and Netflix’s The Prom.
Those Who Prosper feels like a different gear entirely. With an estimated budget of just US16,000 and a cast that includes Alivia Levie and Jean Evans alongside Greetham and Tacheny, this is indie filmmaking at its most stripped-back. The film is currently in post-production, according to its IMDb listing, though no release date has been announced.
The bigger picture
The short arrives at a time when queer horror is having a genuine moment. Adrian Chiarella’s Leviticus, which premiered at Sundance earlier this year, also tackles conversion therapy through a supernatural lens. But where Leviticus goes gothic, Those Who Prosper appears to stay grounded in psychological realism, making its subject matter feel that much closer to home.
