Positions
Biography
Nick DeGruccio is a three-time recipient of the LA Ovation Award for Direction and has received the 2008 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Joel Hirschhorn Award for Outstanding Achievement in Musical Theatre as well as the 2009 BackStage Garland Award for Direction for an Outstanding Season of Work. He received Ovation Awards for his direction of Jekyll & Hyde at Cabrillo Music Theatre, The Laramie Project (LA Premiere) at the Colony Theatre & Laguna Playhouse and 1776 at Performance Riverside. Recent credits include Putting It Together, A Year With Frog and Toad for South Coast Repertory, 1776, RENT, the West Coast Premiere of The Andrews Brothers at Musical Theatre West (also at Cabrillo Music Theatre) as well as The Story Of My Life (LA Premiere), Kiss of the Spider Woman (LA Ovation Award for Musical) and the LA Premieres of Thrill Me and Dog Sees God for Havok Theatre Company’s inaugural season. His other productions and Ovation-nominated works include Side By Side By Sondheim for The Rubicon Theatre and Pasadena Playhouse, the LA premiere of Side Show (Colony Theatre), Guys and Dolls and La Cage Aux Folles (Musical Theatre West), The Last Five Years in rep with I Do! I Do! (Pasadena Playhouse), The Full Monty (San Diego Music Theatre), The Spitfire Grill (Laguna Playhouse/OC Weekly Award Best Musical), Zanna, Don’t! at West Coast Ensemble (LADCC Award for Direction), Bad Apples, a World Premiere Play for The Rubicon Theatre Company, Beehive at the El Portal Theatre, I Left My Heart…a tribute to Tony Benett, Altar Boyz and The Andrews Brothers for the Welk Theatre and City of Angels, An Ideal Husband and Putting It Together (Colony Theatre). For Musical Theatre Guild, he directed the L.A. Premiere of A Man Of No Importance and Andrew Lippa’s The Wild Party. Other credits: Basic Training (2nd Stage), The Fantasticks (Performance Riverside), Pippin (BCLO) and Happily Ever After…After All (voiceovers byAngela Lansbury) ( 9 O’clock Players).
Productions
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Director GUYS AND DOLLS (2009) |
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Director Caught (2010) |
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Choreographer THE FANTASTICKS (2005) |
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Choreographer THE FANTASTICKS (2005) |
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Choreographer THE FANTASTICKS (2005) |
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Director The Andrews Brothers (2010) |
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Director Man of La Mancha (2012) |
Awards
Nominations
2010 Ovation Award Nomination
Direction of A Musical
Cabrillo Music Theatre
The Andrews Brothers