Nick Gandiello

NICK GANDIELLO [he/him] is a playwright, teaching artist, and theatre administrator based in New Jersey.  His play The Blameless premiered at The Old Globe and has an excerpt published in Smith and Kraus's Best Women's Monologues. Other productions include The Wedge Horse with Fault Line Theatre, Oceanside with Merrimack Repertory Theatre, the children's play Not My Monster! with The Flea, and How the Moon Would Talk with Keen Company which is published by Concord Theatricals and has subsequently performed around the country.  He was the winner of the David Calicchio Emerging American Playwright Award for Sunrise Highway, a Page 73 Playwriting Fellow, the recipient of the Roe Green Award for Excellence in Playwriting for Cicada, was featured in Lark's Playwrights Week and was a member of the Goldberg Playwrights Workshop, twice invited to the Ojai Playwrights Conference, and is a recipient of MTC's science and technology focused Sloan Commission for his new play deep/fake/play. Nick taught Playwriting at Marymount Manhattan College,  was the Literary Manager of Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc., designed and served as the Head of the Dramatic Writing Division at the Tony Award-winning Broadway For All, and has worked as a Teaching Artist around the country. He is currently the Education and Play Festival Manager at Premiere Stages at Kean University.  MFA, New School for Drama.