Nick Navari is a Pittsburgh born and bred writer, composer and director, and the former Producing Artistic Director at The Strand Theater. His first original musical, Local Singles, for which he wrote the book, music & lyrics, opened Off-Broadway at The Players Theatre for a 5-week run in January of 2025. In 2020, Navari was named Pittsburgh's Community Supported Artist and was awarded a grant for the show's first full production through the National Endowment for the Arts. It opened at The New Hazlett Theater and won 5 Broadway World Awards, including, for Navari, Best Direction. The show has since been produced at The Lamp Theatre in Irwin, The Colorado New Musical Festival in Denver, and with Queen City Concerts in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has also written and produced a running segment for the 2x EMMY nominated Fan Nation television series on CBS Pittsburgh, debuted his original play at Duquesne University, played over 150 shows at the dueling piano bar Howl at the Moon, and has directed and music directed musicals all over the Pittsburgh area. Currently, he is writing his next musical and earning his Masters in Writing and Production for Musical Theatre at Berklee College of Music’s Manhattan Campus, BerkleeNYC. He is a graduate of Kenyon College with degrees in Economics and Law, an Ambassador for the Pittsburgh CLO, a member of Grammy U with The Recording Academy, a staff writer for The Broadway Beat, and a proud member of The Dramatist Guild.
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