NICK CHIODINI

FOUNDING PARTNER | GELATIERE

Nick Chiodini has built a career on the belief that every great project begins with a powerful story. A veteran Casting Director and Creative Producer, he spent eight years at MTV, where he pioneered a documentary-style approach to casting and storytelling rooted in discovering life through other people’s stories. He later shaped projects for all the major broadcast networks and streamers, as well as countless global brands, sharing the stories of every day people in over 28 countries around the World. His most personal story, however, began not on a film set, but in the kitchen. While building a television career in Los Angeles, Nick found himself rediscovering his Italian American roots through the flavors of his childhood. It began almost by accident, when he baked his mother’s Gooey Butter Cake, a nod to his upbringing at Zia’s on The Hill, his family’s legendary St. Louis restaurant. That single tray of cake sparked an obsession. Travel through Italy deepened Nick’s interest in gelato and inspired him to connect a career shaped by people and cultures around the world with the Italian American kitchen of his childhood, where his father taught him how classic Italian recipes take on new life through regional flavors. As Uomo’s master gelatiere, Nick creates gelato that honors tradition while highlighting regional flavors and cultures not often represented in the category and a belief that the flavors that bring us home are the ones we never really outgrow.