Nicole Ricciardi

Nicole Ricciardi is a theatre director, actor, producer and instructor.

She has directed, developed and assisted with productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Third Avenue PlayWorks, Primary Stages, Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Flea Theater, the Drama Book Shop, Chelsea Repertory Lab, Two River Theater Company, Shadow Lawn Stage, Circle East Theatre Company, Bushwick Arts, Irish Repertory Theater, and Central Square Theatre, Boston. She has been an Associate Artist at Shakespeare and Company since 2012, where she has directed Christopher Lloyd in "King Lear," as well as several critically acclaimed contemporary plays.

Additionally, Nicole has worked with a company of NYC artists to create "The Juliet and Romeo Project," a cross-gender adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece; "Roasting Alice," a modern, new musical based on Lewis Carroll's classic story; "We Eat Chekhov," a new play with music adapted from the vaudevilles of Anton Chekhov; "Article 140," a stage adaptation of Jean-Paul Sartre's "Les Jeux Sont Faits"; and "The Comedie of Errors (As Presented by the Miners of Hell's Half Acre)," an all-male production of Shakespeare's play performed by California gold miners in 1852 (and two actual sets of identical twins).

Nicole has taught on the theatre faculties of Drew, Monmouth and Syracuse Universities, as well as the National Theater Institute at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center. For two years, she coordinated Syracuse Drama's program at Shakespeare's Globe, London. She has led classes and workshops for Keene College, Shakespeare and Company, Eastern Connecticut State University, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, The New York Film Academy, Two River Theatre Company, Walnut Hill School for the Arts, and the Acting Studio, New York.

Nicole received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.