- Date Of Birth: 1981
- Date Of Death: 2020
- State: Connecticut
Nicholas Whitney Tucci of Middletown, Connecticut and Ridgewood, New York died on March 3, 2020 at the Smilow Cancer Hospital in New Haven, Connecticut. Born on April 3, 1981 in Middletown, he attended Middletown public schools and graduated from Middletown High School in 1999. He attended Yale University and graduated in 2004 with a B.A. in Theater Arts. At Yale, Nicholas was a member of Saybrook College, the Suite 13 improvisational comedy troupe, and the 1999 Ivy League champion Yale Football team. He was active in undergraduate theater, appearing in over thirty Yale student stage productions with notable leading roles in A Streetcar Named Desire and Angels in America.
He is survived by his parents Alexander and Marjorie Allison Tucci of Middletown, his sister Natalie Tucci Shoff, her husband Harrison of Brooklyn, NY and their son Theodore Whitney Shoff. Additionally, he is survived by his paternal grandmother Flora Tucci of Chester, Connecticut, his uncles Richard, Theodore, Michael, and John Tucci, uncles Thomas M. and Gerard Allison, and aunts Linda Tucci Lichtman, Christine Bednarz, Suzanne O’Shea, Lorolie Wishart and their respective families.
