photo by Lauren Eliot Photography
“N” // Nicky Maggio is a Director with a focus on New Play development.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
I engage in unapologetic and risk-taking theatrical narratives by bringing my entire sense of self to every project. I am a natural leader. I am a life-long learner. I am a lover of writers. I am transgender. I am plus-sized. I am a rape survivor. I am an advocate for BIPOC voices. I am complex and I shift, de-center, change, collaborate.
I find my absence of language to be freeing. T. Fleischman writes about the uninscribed as “a site of change, where I might understand my actual context and do something about it…I can’t escape the language but that won’t stop me from refusing it anyways, and believing that a blank paper might transport me somewhere else”. I tattooed uninscribed on my body and ventured into the world as my very own blank paper. I turn to writers to invite me into their lived experiences and imaginations and in doing so I find endless possibilities of who I can be. This is why I am an artist.
My Directing is a form of theatrical curation. I define my role by
Upholding the integrity of the artist’s perspective, curiosities and relevant immediacies.
Establishing an aesthetic through actualizing the living environment for the work.
Inviting exploration; to transition from the ethereal to the concrete.
Following these principles, I dream of what our collective worlds can be. I tend to drift towards unconventional structures that experiment. If something doesn’t work- blow it up, build something new. I never stop looking for a “new”.
BIO:
N is a new works director and theatrical curator for the disquiet. Experimenting with form, composition, and space, Nicky manifests theatrical worlds with an eye towards transition, discovery, and a gemini-like quality of intensity. They were a director for Mercury Store's inaugural Director's Intensive, Mercury Store Director's Lab (Spring 2023) and Cultivate Theatre Lab's inaugural cohort (Summer 2024). N currently is a member of Roundabout Directors Group (2024-2025).
Nick has directed, assisted, and workshopped productions at Juilliard School, Breaking the Binary Theatre, Clubbed Thumb, Atlantic Acting School, The Brick, IRT Theatre, National Queer Theatre, Cherry Lane, Pipeline Theatre Company, The Drama League, The Wilma Theatre, The Public, The Lark, Boston’s Lyric Stage Company, Arts Emerson/Emerson Stage, Teatro LATEA, and ItalyTime. N also noteably directed JHANJAR DI PAANWAN CHHANKAR at NQT's innaugral Criminal Queerness Festival partnered with World Pride 2019, featured in New York Times’s “Pride Month’s Theatre To See!”.
BFA Emerson College, MFA The New School.
www.nmaggio.com Instagram: @nickymaggio
UPCOMING PROJECTS:
SWEETFISH! by Nikhil Mahapatra - Development Reading at Breaking the Binary Theatre (February 2025)
LOVE YOU MORE by Nikhil Mahapatra as a Core Production of The Tank (May-June 2025)