Nico Krell

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Nico Krell is an Uruguayan-American stage director of plays, operas, performance art, and, once, a gastrotheatrical adaptation of Medea. He creates new plays, musicals, contemporary gems, and visceral classics.

He is the recipient of the Louis Sudler Prize for his cross-disciplinary research on the ethical dynamics of presenting media depicting violence. At Princeton, he is the creator of and Program Director for Try On Theater, a holistic and generative alternative to traditional auditions.

He has directed stage projects at Lincoln Center, Heartbeat Opera, The University of Toronto, the wild project, Mercury Store, TheaterLab, Princeton Summer Theater, Princeton University, Lucid Body House, and PlayGround NY. He has supported work at Soho Rep., Opera America, and Berkshire Theatre Group, and he serves as an associate artist with Sanguine Theater.

His work is provocative and socially-conscious, building a forum through formally-inventive, design-forward drama—he exalts the social role of theater through practice, praxis, and performance. When he works, the health and honest expression of the creators involved is held above all. He believes in a humane theater.