ACTING

Nico Grelli (they/them) is an Award Winning Actor, Writer, & Director.

They were born in San Francisco, and spent their childhood summers in Italy.

Nico is based in NYC, but also calls Chicago and The Bay Area home. Nico has worked on stages all over the country to acclaim, and has appeared in numerous short films, and the feature ‘It Had To Be You’ by Sasha Gordon.

Nico is also a Theatremaker, Experimental Comedian, and Accomplished Teaching Artist. More info on this on their Writing & Directing page!

Currently: Betrayal at The Goodman Theatre directed by Susan V. Booth, starring Helen Hunt, Robert Sean Leonard, and Ian Barford (and me!)

From Third Coast Review

“Pinter’s dialogue is spare but always to the point, with the pauses and moments of silence that the playwright is known for. The three actors each perform their roles thoughtfully, with passion or quiet angst. The fourth character, an Italian waiter (Nico Grelli), is a delightful cameo role and always an audience favorite. The waiter adds some welcome levity to the scene and we wish the plot had required more meals in that Italian café.”

From Broadway World:

“Rounding out the cast is Nico Grelli as a waiter at a restaurant that Robert and Jerry frequent during workdays. Grelli finds levity and humor in a role that otherwise seems to only serve as jumping off point for Robert’s reflections on fathers, sons, and the question of posterity.

From the Hyde Park Herald:

“As the mostly two-person scenes (replete with Pinteresque pauses) move backward in time, we see Jerry and Emma in 1975 break up and give up the flat they took together for their afternoon trysts, a crucial falling-out between Emma and Robert in Venice in 1973, the follow-up lunch between Robert and Jerry the same summer (with Nico Grelli providing comic relief as the waiter)…”

AEA. SAG-AFTRA.

Recently: Nico appeared in the workshop presentation of LM Feldman’s hand foot hand directed by Jessi D. Hill, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Realm.

*Nico won a New York Innovative Theatre Award for Best Actor for J. Stephen Brantley’s The Jamb directed by Obie Winner David Drake.

*Nico received an Equity Jeff Award Nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in The Rose Tattoo at Chicago’s Shattered Globe Theatre.

Click Photos Below for More Info–Scroll Down for Full Acting CV