Nick DeGruccio is the recipient of the LA Ovation Award for Direction of both a Play and a Musical.  Nick most recently directed the LA Premieres of Thrill Me for Havok Theatre Company, Zanna, Don’t! at West Coast Ensemble (LADCC Award for Direction, 2007 LA Ovation Nomination for Direction, Production), The Andrews Brothers for Musical Theatre West, Bad Apples, a World Premiere Play for The Rubicon Theatre Company and Beehive at the El Portal Theatre (5 2006 LADCC Award nominations including Direction/2 2007 LA Ovation Award Nominations) as well as Jekyll & Hyde for Cabrillo Music Theatre. He also directed The Laramie Project for the Laguna Playhouse having directed the LA premiere at The Colony Theatre, which received 3 LA Ovation Awards for Best Play, Best Direction, Best Ensemble and has raised over $36,000.00 for the Matthew Shepard Foundation.  He directed the LA premiere of Side Show, which received 8 Ovation Nominations including direction and was voted One of the Top 10 Plays of 2002 by The Los Angeles Times. He directed the production of 1776 at Performance Riverside receiving the 2004 LA Ovation Award for Direction and the production garnered 5 LA Ovation Awards including Best Musical.  Also, recently he directed The Last Five Years and I DO! I DO! in rep at The Pasadena Playhouse, The Full Monty for San Diego Music Theatre’s inaugural production and I Left My Heart…a tribute to Tony Bennett for the Welk Resort, San Diego. He directed the LA Premiere of A Man Of No Importance for MTG, which was nominated for 3 2006 Los Angeles Drama Critic’s Circle Awards as well as a GLAAD award for production. He directed Side By Side By Sondheim at the Rubicon Theatre which was moved to The Pasadena Playhouse (2004 LA Ovation Nominations for Production and Ensemble). He directed the west coast premiere of The Spitfire Grill at The Laguna Playhouse receiving the OC Award for Best Musical as well as My Way for McCoy-Rigby Entertainment at the La Mirada Performing Arts Center and for the Welk Resort in San Diego. He directed Guys and Dolls for Musical Theatre West which was nominated for 4 2005 LA Ovation Awards including Direction of a Musical and the The Fantasticks at Performance Riverside. He also directed a staged concert of Andrew Lippa's The Wild Party at the Alex Theatre (MTG), Basic Training at 2nd Stage receiving an NAACP nomination for direction and La Cage Aux Folles for Musical Theatre West (which received 2 2004 LA Ovation Nominations). He directed the Colony Theatre Company productions of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, City of Angels (LA Ovation Award for Best Musical Smaller Theatre), the West Coast Premiere of Sondeim’s Putting It Together, (Garland Award and LA Ovation Award nomination for Direction) and Tennessee Williams’ Suddenly Last Summer.. Other directing credits include: Pippin for the BCLO, Two By Two and How Now Dow Jones for the Musical Theatre Guild at the Pasadena Playhouse, Happily Ever After...After All (voiceovers by Angela Lansbury), Jack & the Giant, Secret Garden, Oz! and Sleeping Beauty for the 9 O’clock Players, The Foreigner and The History of The Musical Theatre in 44 Minutes and 28 Seconds for MTG which is touring LA Schools. Nick is an alumnus of the Lincoln Center Theatre Director’s Lab West. www.nickdegruccio.com

As an actor, Nick has performed in numerous plays throughout the US. Various credits include Sonny in City of Angels (Broadway National Tour, LA Company), Joey in Tony 'n Tina's Wedding (LA Company), Renfield in Dracula (Sacramento Theatre Company, Pennsylvania Centre Stage), Antony & Cleopatra (Nevada Shakespeare Company), Cool My Tongue (Celebration Theatre) and most recently Hines in The Pajama Game for Musical Theatre West. With the Colony Theatre Company, recent productions include The Man Who Came To Dinner (Banjo), June Moon (Fred), How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying (Finch), Our Country's Good (Wisehammer), and Snoopy in You’re A Good Man, Charlie Brown. Various TV and film credits include Frasier, Everybody Loves Raymond, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Jenny, Saved by the Bell, Josh Kirby - Time Warrior, Tales of the City, Tony n’ Tina, Where or When and General Hospital.
AEA, SAG, AFTRA, SSDC