The Glass Menagerie | August 9-25 | New Muses Theatre Company
Niclas Olson
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Niclas Olson is an actor, playwright, designer, and director based in Tacoma. Regional credits include Frankenstein, Hamlet, Romeo & Juliet, Into the Woods, The Seagull and Lysistrata for New Muses Theatre Company; Evil Dead: The Musical, Of Mice and Men, The Library, and My Name is Rachel Corrie for Tacoma Little Theatre; and Angels in America Parts I and II for Olympia Little Theatre. He is the managing artistic director of New Muses Theatre Company and technical director for Centerstage Theatre. 

Director's Resume

Theatre

Stuart Little | E.B. White | Centerstage Theatre (Federal Way, WA) [announced]
The Glass Menagerie | Tennessee Williams | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Winnie the Pooh | A.A. Milne | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
An Iliad | Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Henry IV | William Shakespeare | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Richard II | William Shakespeare | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
The Last Five Years | Jason Robert Brown | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Saint Joan | George Bernard Shaw | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Evil Dead: The Musical | Bond, Cipolla, Morris, Reinblatt | Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma, WA)
The Seagull | Anton Chekhov | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Tartuffe | Molière | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Hamlet | William Shakespeare | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Babes in Toyland | Glen MacDonough | Tacoma Little Theatre and New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Lysistrata | Aristophanes | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Frankenstein | Mary Shelley | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
A Servant of Two Masters | Carlo Goldoni | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
1984 | George Orwell | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Peer Gynt | Henrik Ibsen | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Of Mice and Men  | John Steinbeck  | Tacoma Little Theatre  (Tacoma, WA)
Every Afternoon | Gertrude Stein | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
The Rising of the Moon  | Lady Gregory  | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Dulcitius  | Hrotsvitha  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Riders to the Sea  | J.M. Synge  | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
In the Shadow of the Glen  |  J.M. Synge  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Six Characters in Search of an Author  |  Luigi Pirandello  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Into the Woods | Sondheim and Lapine | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Ghosts | Henrik Ibsen | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
A Doll's House | Henrik Ibsen | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
The Library | Scott Z. Burns | Tacoma Little Theatre (Tacoma, WA)
Romeo and Juliet | William Shakespeare | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Dying City | Christopher Shinn | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Reasons to be Pretty  | Neil Labute | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Sexual Perversity in Chicago | David Mamet | New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Miss Julie  |  August Strindberg  |  New Muses Theatre Company (Tacoma, WA)
Angels in America: Perestroika  |  Tony Kushner  |  Olympia Little Theater  (Olympia, WA)
Angels in America: Millennium Approaches  |  Tony Kushner  |  Olympia Little Theater  (Olympia, WA)
My Name Is Rachel Corrie  |  Corrie, Rickman, Viner  |  Tacoma Little Theater (Tacoma, WA)
Doctor Faustus  |  Christopher Marlowe  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Tacoma, WA)
Copenhagen  |  Michael Frayn  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Lakewood, WA) 
On The Verge  |  Eric Overmeyer  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Tacoma, WA)
This Is Our Youth  |  Kenneth Lonergan  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Tacoma, WA)
The Shape of Things  |  Neil Labute  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Tacoma, WA)
The Emperor's New Clothes  |  The Prince Street Players  |  Tacoma Musical Playhouse - YSAS  (Tacoma, WA)
The Fever  |  Wallace Shawn  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Seattle, WA)
Blithe Spirit  |  Noel Coward  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Morton, WA)
Hamlet  |  William Shakespeare  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Morton, WA)
The Importance of Being Earnest  |  Oscar Wilde  |  New Muses Theatre Company  (Morton, WA)
Anthem: A Musical Theatre Cabaret  |  Various  |  Roxy Theater  (Morton, WA)
Last Waltz on a Midnight Violin (World Premiere)  |  Niclas Olson  |  Pacific Lutheran University  (Tacoma, WA)
Oleanna  |  David Mamet  |  Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA)
Flop Cop  |  Laura Cunningham  |  Pacific Lutheran University (Tacoma, WA)

Film & Digital Theatre

Diary of a Madman | Niclas Olson | New Muses Theatre Company and Falling Sparrow Films
Manfred | Lord Byron | New Muses Theatre Company and Falling Sparrow Films
R.U.R  |  Karel Capek  |  New Muses Theatre Company

Education

Graduate of Pacific Lutheran University's BFA Acting and Directing program.  Cum Laude.

Awards and Nominations

​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Theatre Company of the Decade for New Muses Theatre Company (Nominee)​​​​​​
​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Production of a Play of the Decade for "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (Nominee)​​​​​​
​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Production of a Play of the Decade for "Frankenstein" (Nominee)​​​​​​
​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Production of a Play of the Decade for "Romeo and Juliet" (Nominee)​​​​​​
BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Musical of the Decade for "Evil Dead: The Musical" (Nominee)​​​
​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Musical of the Decade for "Into the Woods" (Nominee)​​​
BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Direction of a Musical of the Decade for "Evil Dead: The Musical" (Nominee)​
BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Direction of a Play of the Decade for "Frankenstein" (Nominee)​​
BroadwayWorld Seattle Decade Awards: Direction of a Play of the Decade for "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (Nominee)​
​​​BroadwayWorld Seattle: Top Streaming Production for "R.U.R" (Nominee)​​​
South Sound Stage Excellence: Best Play for "Evil Dead: The Musical" (Winner)

BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Play for "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Hamlet, Prince of Denmark" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Lysistrata" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Play for "Of Mice and Men" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Of Mice and Men" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Frankenstein" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Person to Watch 2017 (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Romeo and Juliet" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Ghosts" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Musical for "Into the Woods" (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Person to Watch 2016 (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "Miss Julie" (Nominee)
​BroadwayWorld Seattle: Person to Watch 2015 (Nominee)
BroadwayWorld Seattle: Person to Watch 2014 (Nominee)
​BroadwayWorld Seattle: Best Direction of a Play for "The Shape of Things"  (Nominee)
​BroadwayWorld Seattle: Person to Watch 2013 (Nominee)
​Alpha Psi Omega Awards:  Best Direction of a Play for "Oleanna" (Nominee)
​Alpha Psi Omega Awards:  Best Play for "Oleanna" (Nominee)
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