Nick Hrutkay is an award-winning director, arts leader, and educator based in Pittsburgh. He has spent ten 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, Playwrights Local, Alchemical Studios, Stagedoor Manor, Keystone Repertory Theater, Carnegie Mellon University, and Point Park University. Recently he co-directed A Night with Janis Joplin at Bell Theater/Axelrod Performing Arts Center with Mary Bridget Davies, who also reprised her Tony Award nominated performance from the Broadway production.

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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 the Point Park University Musical Theatre Junior Lab and serving as a Dramaturg for Dramafest at Stagedoor Manor leading the annual new work festival whose selected plays were published through Stephen Sondheim's Young Playwrights Inc. Nick directed the world premiere of the Music Theatre International (MTI) pilot production of Dear Evan Hansen at Stagedoor Manor, working with Steven Levenson, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul on developing the show for schools.

 

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. 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.

 

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.