Nicholas J. Clarey (he/him) is Artistic Director of interACT Theatre Productions. He worked with and founded several theatre companies across the Northeast and served as Theatre Education Program Director at Dryden Schools near Ithaca, New York, before landing in NJ where he assumed the helm of interACT in 2012. Nicholas's and interACT's work has been repeatedly recognized by Broadway World, the NJ Perry Awards and the Essex County Local Arts Program. interACT proudly represents Essex County through deliberately diverse casting, original works, and high quality productions in the Maplewood-South Orange communities and beyond.