Nick Damici

Nick Damici is an American actor and screenwriter known for such films as Mulberry Street and Stake Land.^[2]

Nick Damici
Damici at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival
Born	1959 or 1960 (age 65–66)[1] United States
Occupations	Actor, screenwriter
Years active	1998 – present

Early life

Nick Damici grew up in Hell's Kitchen in the 1960s and early 1970s. His father was a bartender, and Damici would occasionally tend bar at the age of 12.^[3] He is of mixed Italian and Canarian descent.

Career

Damici's mentor is Michael Moriarty, who encouraged him to write scripts. Acting remains his primary love; in an interview, he described writing as a "lonely, thankless job".^[3] After he tired of supporting roles on television shows, he decided to write starring roles for himself. Damici and Jim Mickle have worked together since 2001^[4] and have collaborated on four films: Mulberry Street, Stake Land, We Are What We Are, and Cold in July.^[5] Damici originally wrote Stake Land to be a web series, but Larry Fessenden was enthusiastic about making it into a feature film.^[6] In February 2013, he was cast in Adrian Garcia Bogliano's Late Phases.^[7]

Filmography

As screenwriter

Title	Year	Notes
Mulberry Street	2006
Stake Land	2010
We Are What We Are	2013
Cold in July	2014
Bushwick	2016
Hap and Leonard	2016–2018	TV series
Stake Land II	2017

As actor

• In the Cut (film) (2003)
• World Trade Center (2006)
• Mulberry Street (2006)
• Stake Land (2010)
• We Are What We Are (2013)
• Late Phases (2014)
• Dark Was the Night (2014)
• Cold in July (2014)
• Stake Land II (2016)