Nick Gandiello’s plays include Oceanside (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Sunrise Highway (Ojai Playwrights Conference),  Black Fly Spring (Xavier University), Swept (Williamstown Theatre Festival), At the Finish (Smith and Kraus’s The Best 10 Minute Plays of 2014), and Teeming Shore (The Best 10 Minute Plays of 2015).  He holds an MFA from The New School for Drama, where his play Off the Realness received a workshop production.  He is an alum of the Ars Nova Play Group.  Twice a Finalist for the Page 73 Playwriting Fellowship, he attended the company’s Summer Residency at Yale and was a member of the 2014 I-73 Writers Group.  He has attended residencies at The Blue Mountain Center and SPACE on Ryder Farm.  For the screen, Nick developed and shot a television pilot, Substance, with Ready Set Go Productions.  As a teaching artist, he led the Naked Angels 3 Thursdays Summer Style and their playwriting workshops in the GUILD Conference. Nick is currently the Literary Manager of Young Playwrights Inc., for which he has led playwriting workshops in Virginia, Miami, and NYC.