Nicholas Wardigo

Nicholas Wardigo

I am a Philadelphia-based playwright whose produced plays include Snowglobe, Hum, Concrete Dinosaur, Exit Corpse, The Do’s and Don’ts of Time Travel, The Biggest Box of Crayons, and Editorial Decisions. I’ve been produced by such forward-thinking theaters as the MacKnight Foundation (Philadelphia), Plays & Players, Straw Flower Productions, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, The Brick Playhouse, The Phoenix...
I am a Philadelphia-based playwright whose produced plays include Snowglobe, Hum, Concrete Dinosaur, Exit Corpse, The Do’s and Don’ts of Time Travel, The Biggest Box of Crayons, and Editorial Decisions. I’ve been produced by such forward-thinking theaters as the MacKnight Foundation (Philadelphia), Plays & Players, Straw Flower Productions, Philadelphia Theatre Workshop, The Brick Playhouse, The Phoenix Theatre (Indianapolis), the Theater Alliance (Washington, DC), and Quantum Dragon Theatre (San Francisco). I’ve received staged readings in lots of other places, including PlayPenn, InterAct Theatre Company, Theatre Exile, Society Hill Playhouse, and Flashpoint Theatre Company.

I’m proud to be the recipient of grants from the Pew Fellowships in the Arts and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. I was also a nominee for the 2009 F. Otto Haas Award for an Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist.

Plays

  • Snowglobe by Nicholas Wardigo
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: comedy, experimental + 1 more
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    Keyword: snowglobe, philosophy
    Genre: comedy, experimental, fantasy
    Keyword: snowglobe, philosophy
    The universe is half a sphere, fifteen feet in diameter and fifteen feet high. It contains three trees, a tiny house, and two women. Occasionally, fake snow falls. The women attempt to figure out what the universe is, what it's for, and what their place in it is.
  • The Do's and Don'ts of Time Travel by Nicholas Wardigo
    Recommendations: 2
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    Genre: drama, science fiction
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    Keyword: time travel, Lesbian + 1 more
    Genre: drama, science fiction
    Keyword: time travel, Lesbian, gay
    Zoey is a time traveler. Her girlfriend, Claire, is dying from brain cancer, and Zoey has spent decades reliving the same three years...the period between Claire’s diagnosis and her death.

    There are problems.
  • Hum by Nicholas Wardigo
    Recommendations: 4
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    Genre: drama, experimental + 2 more
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    Keyword: Dystopia, sound + 2 more
    Genre: drama, experimental, mystery/thriller, science fiction
    Keyword: Dystopia, sound, soundscape, hum
    The world is filled by a ubiquitous Hum that prevents its inhabitants from hearing one another. Having never experienced any other sound, everyone communicates with written notes and cheerfully accepts the status quo, until a conspiracy irrevocably changes everything.

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  • Playing the Assassin by David Robson
    22 Mar. 2019
    “ Stripped-down, undiluted, bare-bones tension. The kind of play that makes you squirm in your seat. Two men circle each other for ninety minutes, and by the end, you're left with a riveting portrayal of how we live with our sins, and the philosophical adjustments we make to move on. I saw the production at Act II Playhouse, and years later, I still think about it. Honest, hard-hitting writing. ”