About
Nick Anselmo, Theatre Program Director, Producing Artistic Director Theatre Program, Teaching Professor.
Nick is the Theatre Program Director and teaches Acting Fundamentals, Scene Study, Meisner Acting Technique, Musical Theater History, Play Direction and Musical Theater Cabaret.
He has directed numerous productions at Drexel over the years including Be More Chill, ALiEN8 (world premiere musical), Reefer Madness, Crimes of the Heart, Godspell, Our Town, and The Laramie Project.
Before coming to Drexel he was the Artistic Associate/Education Director of the Passage Theatre Company in Trenton, New Jersey, where he directed several productions for their youth outreach program The State Street Project. He has also directed for Temple University, The National One Minute Play Festival, Writers Theatre of New Jersey, Mainstreet Musicals, Philadelphia Young Playwrights, Hedgerow Theatre, Players Club of Swarthmore, Double A Productions, Musicana Dinner Theater and his own adaptation of letters from soldiers fighting in Vietnam for a show called Vietnam: Letters and Remembrances, for which he also composed the score.
Nick is a proud native of Chicago where he often worked with Music Theatre Workshop on original musicals that were performed in the Chicago Public Schools that dealt with gangs, drugs, and gun violence. Part of the “Under Pressure Series,” these performances were followed by discussions and role-playing exercises with the students on the issues raised in the show.
As an actor Nick has appeared Off-Broadway at the York Theatre in Carmelina in their Musicals in Muft series, and at the Ensemble Studio Theater working with director Rene Buch. He was a company member of The Pulse Ensemble on 42nd Street, and the American Globe Theatre in New York City. He has appeared in many shows in regional theaters and in industrial films. A few of his favorite roles include the Cabaret Corp (Williamstown Theater Festival with Andrea Burns), Richie Valens in Buddy (Walnut Street Theater), Biondello in Taming of the Shrew (Asolo Theatre), and Raul/guitarist/original music in Fort Chaffee (World Premiere - Arkansas Repertory with choreographer Mia Michaels), West Side Story (Mill Mountain), Into the Woods (Jekyll Island) and Zorba (Apple Tree).