Will Nunziata is a NYC-based award-winning director, writer, and creator of film, theatre, and television.

 

Most recently, Will’s short film The Old Guitarist starring legendary actor Dominic Chianese (The Sopranos, Godfather: Part 2) had its world premiere screening at the New York Shorts International Film Festival. The film has garnered recognition (as of January 2023) from the Gold Movie Awards, Corsenal International Film Festival, Garden State Film Festival, New York Best Actor & Director Awards, Rome Prisma Film Awards, Heart International Film Festival, Indie Short Fest, Paris International Short Festival, Florida Shorts, Venus International Film Festival, and South London Film Festival.

 

As a theatre director, Will is the recipient of the 2019 BroadwayWorld Best Director Award. His credits include the first NYC revivals of John Kander & Fred Ebb’s The Act (starring TV’s Anna Chlumsky and Tony Award winners Randy Graff & Cady Huffman) and Over Here (starring Tony Award winner Debbie Gravitte and Broadway's Haley Swindal and Jessica Hendy).

 

Will wrote, conceived, and directed the original NYC theatrical-concerts Our Guy, Cy: The Songs of Cy Coleman (starring Tony Award winners Lillias White, Cady Huffman, Judy Kaye, and Randy Graff) and the critically acclaimed off-Broadway show Miss Peggy Lee: In Her Own Words and Music starring and co-conceived with Tony Award winner Cady Huffman. His collaboration in 2016 with the late-great songwriter and performer Charles Aznavour resulted in a world-premiere industry presentation of the original theatre piece he wrote, conceived, and directed titled Game of Love: The Songs of Charles Aznavour. The show starred Grammy Award nominee Clint Holmes and Soul Train Award winner Nicole Henry.

 

Upcoming theatre projects include: Little Black Book: A New Musical (Co-Conceiver, Director), Sensation: A New Musical (Director), Van Gogh: A New Musical (Co-Conceiver, Director), Poupelle of Chimney Town: The Musical (Director), White Rose: The Musical (Director), The Light Effect: A New Musical (Developer, Director), and Figaro: A New Musical (Co-creator, Director).

 

In the concert world, Will has written and directed concerts for Grammy, Tony, and Emmy Award winning artists including Lillias White, Jackie Evancho, Clint Holmes, Haley Swindal, and Nicole Henry (to name a few).

 

Will is also developing three television situational comedies and his psychological-thriller feature that he wrote and is tapped to direct, Lillith, is currently being developed.

 

Will began his career in show business at 10 years old singing jingle commercials with his twin brother, Anthony (an acclaimed singer-songwriter). He went on to perform for 25 years after that with Anthony across the country and around the world with dozens of symphony orchestras eventually headlining Carnegie Hall with the New York Pops.

 

Will graduated from Boston College with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre and is a proud member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (SDC).

 

For more, please visit https://www.WillNunziata.com