

Stephen Nicolazzo
Director, Creator, Besen Family Artist
Stephen is a Melbourne based theatre maker, director and co-founder of queer theatre company, Little Ones Theatre. Recent Credits include: Director, Looking for Alibrandi, Loaded (Malthouse Theatre), Considerable Sexual License (Joel Bray Dance), Merciless Gods (Arts Centre Melbourne, Griffin Theatre Company), and Abigail’s Party (Melbourne Theatre Company). Stephen has also directed Ash Flanders’ End Of. (Griffin Theatre Company, Darebin Arts Speakeasy), Judith Lucy and Denise Scott’s Still Here (Token Entertainment), The Happy Prince (Griffin Theatre Company, La Mama), The Moors (Red Stitch Actors Theatre), and Daddy (Joel Bray Dance, Arts House, Arts Centre Melbourne, Brisbane Festival, Perth Festival, Darwin Festival, Liveworks). He is a Green Room Award winner for Best Director (The Happy Prince), his productions have received 12 Green Room Award wins and a Sydney Theatre Award.
Stephen was also the recipient of the Besen Family Artist Program placement in Direction in 2009 (Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd) and was a member of the 2019 Lincoln Centre Theatre’s Directors Lab.