Nick Hrutkay is an award-winning director, arts leader, and educator based in Pittsburgh. He has spent nine seasons on the artistic staff at Stagedoor Manor where he is currently the Director of Education and Assistant Artistic Director.

 

His work has been seen in New York and across the country, having directed over 80 productions at theatres including Theatre Row, The Kennedy Center, The Brick, Central Square Theater, Hippodrome Theatre, The Media Theatre, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks, Cumberland Theatre, The Huron Playhouse, Keystone Repertory Theater, Playwrights Local, Alchemical Studios, Point Park University, and Stagedoor Manor.  

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Nick is the former Artistic Director of Keystone Repertory Theater and The Huron Playhouse, one the longest-running summer stock theatres in the United States. He has overseen several new work development initiatives, including serving as a Dramaturg for Dramafest at Stagedoor Manor leading the annual new work festival while mentoring students whose selected plays were published through Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc. He has also been heavily involved with The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival having three productions, The Embalmer, Black Friday: The Musical, and Discovering Eden, invited to perform in the Region II Fringe Festival.

 

He has taught at Point Park University, Stagedoor Manor, Hippodrome Theatre, Quantum Theatre, Stagedoor Manor Studios, Stagedoor Manor College Connection, Raue Center School for the Arts, The Huron Playhouse, Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks, and Pittsburgh Musical Theater, where he was the Chair of the Acting Department for the PMT Conservatory.

 

Nick is the recipient of an ArtWorks Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region II / Stage Directors and Choreographers Society Fellowship, a BroadwayWorld Award for Best Director of a Musical, and has been honored with over a dozen other award nominations.