Nicolas Curcio
Writing
Biography
Nicolas Curcio (he/him) is a writer and director with experience in both animation and live-action. He has worked as a screenwriter at Sony Pictures Animation on projects including Goat, and has written films for Paramount and Universal. He has also built a rapidly growing audience on TikTok and Instagram focused on storytelling and the creative process. A graduate of USC’s MFA Film & Television Production program, his horror film Play House—his directorial debut—won the 2025 Inaugural Fantastic Fest Fantastic Pitches competition and will premiere at Fantastic Fest 2026.
Known For
A small goat with big dreams gets a once-in-a-lifetime shot to join the pros and play roarball, a high-intensity, co-ed, full-contact sport dominated by the fastest, fiercest animals in the world.
GOAT
While renovating a dilapidated house to win back his ex, a young man discovers VHS tapes of an unaired TV show in the basement. But as the show’s dark history surfaces, it seeps into his life, threatening his last chance at reconciliation.
Play House
Killing Animals is a portrait of a lost generation of California youths. The lives of troubled teenage misfits intertwine as they experiment with vices of all kinds, and succumb to self-destructive, often heartless nihilism.
Killing Animals
Tom Sawyer, Huck Finn, and Becky Thatcher have the adventure of a lifetime after witnessing an innocent man get framed for the murder of their town's local doctor in this re-imagination of Mark Twain's classic American novel.
The Adventures of Thomasina Sawyer
After years of helping euthanize the terminally ill, a "hospice" worker begins to question the ethics of her job.