Nicholas Polonio is a director of plays and musicals based in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
He has directed productions including THE SELF IMPROVEMENT AND MALE PRESERVATION SOCIETY, or S.I.M.P.S. (IRT Theater), THE POLICE (Hangar Theatre), MARY STUART (Strasberg Institute at NYU Tisch), POV: U RUN JOE BIDEN’S TIKTOK (Ars Nova’s ANTFest), WE ARE WOMBATS! (Williamstown Director’s Lab), who’s a good girl (Williamstown Director’s Lab), THE 100 MOST BEAUTIFUL NAMES OF TODD (Williamstown Director’s Lab), if all that You take from this is courage, then I’ve no regrets (Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Festival, Winner) LATE FAME (Rutgers University), and GLORIA (Rutgers University).
Bringing a dramaturg’s approach to new material, Nick has worked in close collaboration with writers to develop new plays and musicals at New York Theatre Workshop, Movement Theatre Company, Bedlam, Ma-Yi Theater Company, The TEAM, Normal Ave, Asian American Arts Alliance, Sống Collective, and American Playwriting Foundation. He has worked as a writers’ assistant on TV projects for Hulu and Disney, and was the Associate Producer on OFF-BROADWAY (Critics’ Pick).
As Associate Director: SHIT.MEET.FAN. (MCC), JELLY’S LAST JAM (New York City Center Encores!), PUBLIC OBSCENITIES (Soho Rep), SLAVE PLAY (West End, Broadway, Center Theatre Group) X: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF MALCOLM X (Metropolitan Opera and Tour), A RAISIN IN THE SUN (The Public, Williamstown Theatre Festival), RICHARD III (Shakespeare in the Park, The Delacorte), A LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT (Minetta Lane Theatre), A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE (Audible), PARIS (Atlantic Theater Company), 17 BORDER CROSSINGS (New York Theater Workshop), HENRY IV, PART I (Shakespeare’s Globe), and RICHARD II (Shakespeare’s Globe).
Alumnus of the NYTW 2050 Fellowship, Drama League Directing Fellowship, Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, Mercury Store Directors Lab, Roundabout Directors Group, Williamstown Theatre Festival Directing Corps, Young Vic Genesis Directors, and the National YoungArts Foundation.
Nicholas teaches a directing seminar at NYU (Playwrights Horizons Theater School), and received his BFA in acting from Rutgers Mason-Gross School of the Arts.
let’s make something great: nicholaspolonio@gmail.com