“No one ever accused Nicole Ricciardi of being a timid theatre director.”

- The Berkshire Edge

Nicole Ricciardi directs new plays and classics for the stage. She is based in Chicago.

She has directed, developed, and assisted with productions at Third Avenue PlayWorks, Primary Stages, Youngblood/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, Central Square Theatre (Boston), and Shakespeare and Company.

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 received an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University.

She is on the faculty of The Theatre School at DePaul University.