Niki Hatizidis
Bridgewater, MA
Niki Hatzidis is an actor and award nominated playwright based in NYC.
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Niki Hatzidis is an actor and award nominated playwright based in New York City. Her first full-length play she co-wrote, Steel Birds, was nominated for two New York Innovative Theater Awards; Outstanding Premiere Production of a Play and Outstanding Original Full-length Script. Niki has had one-acts and short plays featured in various festivals and readings in New York City, California and the UK. She is a writer and producer of The Beautiful Work Challenge podcast and a writer on Standby, a sketch comedy podcast by DimlyWit Productions. She is a features writer in OnStage.com. Niki is a graduate of Guildford School of Acting. NikiHatzidis.com.

 

Plays

Good People are Always so Sure They're Right
by Niki Hatzidis

Jessica is a Phd candidate speaking on behave of an inmate, Alex, at a hearing in the hopes of gaining him a stay of execution.

Cast:
JESSICA: Female, late 20's, early 30's. Smart, clever, assertive but flustered, passionate.
Ice Cream, DNA , and Stuff
by Niki Hatzidis

A young woman and an older gentleman plan a meeting on a bench by a river. But their ties run deeper than how it might first appear.

Cast:
ROBERT: Male, 50+. Gentle, neat, soft-spoken. ISLA: Female, 30's. Smart, sharp, assertive.
The C Word
by Niki Hatzidis

Darcy finds herself in a city park after seeing a spot on her breast at a mammogram appointment. Convinced she has cancer, she sparks up a conversation with Ben, a stranger in the park, about how she plans to. change the way she lives her life.

Cast:
DARCY: Late 20's/Early 30's. Everything about her appearance says put together and in control. She is independent and successful. BEN: Late 20's/Early 30's. He's laid back, rugged, maybe bearded with some tattoos. He probably has some crazy stories up his sleeves.
The Gopher Method
by Niki Hatzidis

Beatrice's ex-husband has been invited to her parent's annual Valentine's Day party, forcing her to confront him about how she feel's about their relationship and why it ended.

Cast:
BEATRICE: 30's female. Upper Middle Class. Witty, smart and slightly flustered. MARC: 30's male. Upper Middle Class. Kind, charming and willing to make it work.
Poison and Wine
by Niki Hatzidis

A short play about a widow visiting her husband's mistress to help undertand the man he truly was.

Cast:
CAMILLE: Late 20's to mid 30's, a writer, an artist, passionate, sad, drunk, comfortable with who she easy and how she is perceived. SARAH: 30's or older She is dressed neatly, expensively. Her hair is done, her nails trimmed. She’s dressed quietly, anything but a loud personality. She is determined to look pleasant and polite.
Ariathne
by Niki Hatzidis

A short play about a woman trying to figure out how to mourn a mother she never really knew and gets help by a fellow mourner at her mother's gravesite.

Cast:
ARI: Late 20's-Late 30's, grieving, anxious, confused and adamant. JAMES: Mid 30's to older, mourning, wise, patient, paternal.
Lucinda

A Pulitzer Prize winning author has hauled up in a cabin with a couple confidants in order to help her complete her second novel. It becomes clear that not all is how it seems when her husband arrives unexpectedly.

Cast:
All should look alike LUCINDA: Female, 30's. All consumed with making sure her second novel is as good as the first. LUCY: Female, 20's. Encouraging, bubbly, sharp LUCAS: Male, 20's. Quippy, casual, silly LUKE: Male, 30's. Concerned husband
Setting the Sky on Fire
by Niki Hatzidis

From 1943-1945, women from all over the country followed their husbands to a secret compound in the middle of New Mexico, with the promise that they would have a hand in ending the war abroad. In the early hours of July 16th, 1945, five women sit on a porch in Los Alamos, looking towards the southern horizon, waiting to see... something.

Cast:
All are mid to late 20's CELIA: A wife, a mother, has a chemistry degree but is not allowed to work on the project. She is tired of living on the mesa and is bitter and considered about what the project has done to her husband and their relationship. HENRY: A scientist on the project. He is engrossed in his work but believes the gadget will bring about the end to all wars. DOT: The mesa's busy body. She knows about all the goings on. Cheery and jolly soul. A wife and mother of three young children. GRACE: The newest wife to the mesa. She is polite, good-natured and optimistic. Newly married. JOAN: Poised and proud. Her husband just got a higher clearance and she wants everyone to know it. She organizes the gatherings and events on the mesa. MARION: Very pregnant. Quiet. She was a secretary to a high clearance scientist. Might know more than she lets on.
An Almost
by Niki Hatzidis

A one-act about a man pining for the girl that got away and he creates circumstances where he can tell her all the things he never said.

Cast:
MAX: (Female) Early 20's. Smart, witty, clever. YOUNG ELLIOT: Early 20's Can keep up with Max's banter. Slightly nervous and awkward. OLDER ELLIOT: 40's+ More poised and wise, still holds some boyish charm.
Cohesion
by Niki Hatzidis

Cohesion, in chemistry, is the action or property of like molecules sticking together, being mutually attractive.

Jake and Val are each other's person, but the both are too scared and broken to make the leap into the vulnerable it take to be in an honest relationship. Life get's in the way, they get in their own way and things are always complicated.

Cast:
VAL: Mid- late 20’s female. She is extremely clever and sarcastic. Deadpan. She has had a troubled passed, being a vagabond and recovered drug addict. She has trouble being vulnerable and has never really gotten over her failure in coping with the pressures of being an academic prodigy. JAKE: Late 20’s- early 30’s male who works in marketing. He has lead a sheltered, upper class life. He is charming and quick witted, which has helped him succeed in all aspects of life, but fears getting truly close to women. DENISE: late 20’s- early 30’s female. Upper class, confident and successful lawyer. Naturally condescending. WAITRESS: Early 20’s female. Keen and eager waitress on her first day working at a New York City cafe. HANK: Early- mid 30’s arts podcast host. The proud and doting fiance of Val. MOM: Voice of middle-aged Greek immigrant female. . DAD: Voice of middle-aged Greek immigrant male.
CommonWealth: A Play Set in Massachusetts
by Niki Hatzidis and Anastasia Rutkowski

In CommonWealth, Two young women in dire circumstances hatch a plan to propel themselves into a better life, but their decisions set in motion consequences they could never have foreseen. Set on the backdrop of the opioid epidemic, a story about trying to escape your environment when the system is stacked against you.

Cast:
Molly O'Riordan: Late 20's, Can hold her own. She tends to be a bit of a follower. Can think quickly on her feet. Best friends with Angela. Angela Rossi: Late 20's, Smart, sexy and confident. She knows how to survive. Will do anything for her child. Best friends with Molly. Janet Zaleski: Early 40's, local busy body, boisterous and street smart. A heroin addict. Colin O'Connell: Early 30's, MA cop. Charming and witty. Is helplessly in love with Angela. Molly's brother. Ryan O'Riordan: Early 30's, a MA cop rising up the ranks. He plays by the rules. Is married to Molly. Riley Rossi: Age 8, Angela's daughter. Precocious and witty. Tom boy.
Steel Birds
by Niki Hatzidis and Anastasia Rutkowski

An adapatation of Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters set in Oahu, Hawaii, before, during and after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Cast:
Andrew Pavel: Oldest Brother, 30 Male Julia Pavel: Oldest Sister, 29 Female Mary Pavel Hardy: Middle Sister, 28 Female Irene Pavel: Youngest Sister, 23 Female Nakeli: Local Girl, 20 Female 33 Male Theodore Hardy: Mary's Husband, 33 Male Lt. Nicholas Archer: Air Man, 27 Male Capt. William Meridew: Air Man, 40 Male Admiral Wentworth: Navy Man, 40 Male Doctor John Burden: A Doctor, 65 Male Annie: Housekeeper, 60+ Female

Successes

June 2019

Good People are Always so Sure They're Right was performed at the Bath Fringe Festival as part of Fake Escape's and 20:20 Vision's new writing festival Famous Last Words for writers under 30.

April 2019

The Gopher Method was featured in the Just the 2 of Us Festival at The Tank.

March 2019

Ice Cream, DNA, and Stuff were featured in Love Drink, produced by Riegn and Shine Productions at The Drama League.

March 2019

I was a finalist in Pilots, a playwighting competition for first-generation Americans at Town Stages

January 2019

Little Fish Theatre will be producing The C Word as part of their Pick of the Vine 2019.