Nick Sandys

Artistic Associate Since 2002

Birthplace
Coventry, England

Productions with Remy Bumppo
Old Times; The Marriage of Figaro; The Real Thing; Tartuffe; Aren't We All; Arcadia; Hidden Laughter; Money; The Secret Rapture; No Man's Land; Hapgood; Fiction (director); 365DAYS/365PLAYS (director); American Ethnic (director)

Bio
Nick first joined Remy Bumppo in 2001 in the hit production of Stoppard's Hapgood, having previously appeared in New York, Dallas/Fort Worth, and various regional theatres and Shakespeare festivals. He is also an experienced fight director, having choreographed violence for The Metropolitan Opera (NYC), The Goodman, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Timeline, Shattered Globe, Victory Gardens, and The Theatre School at DePaul where he has been adjunct faculty since 1995.  Nick holds two MAs in English Literature, one from Loyola Chicago and one from Cambridge University.

Other Theater Credits
My Fair Lady (Light Opera Works), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Pride and Prejudice (Northlight); Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, A Midsummer Night's Dream (First Folio—Artistic Associate);Around the World in 80 Days (Lookingglass); Othello, Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare); Oedipus Complex (Goodman Theatre); Duchess of Malfi (Writers' Theatre); Sherlock's Last Case (Drury Lane Oakbrook); The Misanthrope (Next Theatre); Macbeth (Riverside Theatre Shakespeare Festival); Making History (Irish Repertory); Othello (Shakespeare on the Green); Dancing at Lughnasa (Madison Repertory); Importance of Being Earnest (Texas Stage); King Lear, Othello, Henry V, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Hamlet Quarto 1, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry I Parts 1&2 (Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park); Thank You Jeeves, Ion, Lend Me Tenor, Serious Money, Blithe Spirit, Rough Crossing (Stage West); Once In A Lifetime (Dallas Theater Center); Camille (Long Wharf Theatre); Sherlock Holmes & The Hands of Othello (Off-Broadway).  As a director, productions for First Folio Theatre, Noble Fool Theatricals, Chamber Opera Chicago, Fort Worth Shakespeare in the Park, Stage West, Circle Theatre, Steppenworlf's First Look Festival.

Television
Voice-overs for national commercials for Polaroid, McDonald's and Hampton Inns (UK), Web commercials for HBO’S True Blood and for Hampton by Hilton.
 
Film

In Love with a Nun  (2009 Cannes Short)


Awards
Joseph Jefferson award-- Requiem for a Heavyweight 2008 (fight choreography)
Joseph Jefferson nomination-- Much Ado About Nothing 2008
Joseph Jefferson nomination-- The Real Thing 2007
Joseph Jefferson nomination--The Misanthrope 2004
After Dark Award--Outstanding Performance-- The Secret Rapture 2003
Dallas/Ft.Worth Critics Circle Award--Best Actor-- Thank You, Jeeves (Stage West) 2002
Stage West Awards--Best Supporting Actor--Rough Crossing 1989

Latest News
Will appear in Les Liaisons Dangereuses next season.
 
Online Interviews/Articles
Click here for a video of Nick accepting his Jeff Award for Requiem for a Heavyweight.
Click here for a video with Nick discussing Fiction from September 2007.
Click here to read an interview Nick conducted with Steven Dietz in August 2007.
Click here to read an interview with Nick conducted in October 2006.

Click here to listen to an audio interview with Nick conducted in November 2006.