Nestruck was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He was raised in Montreal. He is bilingual.
Nestruck began writing for the McGill Daily, one of the student-run newspapers at McGill University in Montreal, while studying drama at the school's English department. He began an internship at the National Post as a reporter in 2003. He moved to feature writing shortly after.[2]
In 2006, Nestruck became a subeditor and writer for The Guardian in London, England.
He returned to Toronto in 2008 to take the role of theatre critic for The Globe and Mail. He is a four-time winner of the Nathan Cohen Award for Excellence in Critical Writing,[3][4][5][6] and in 2013, he was a runner-up for a National Newspaper Award in the Arts and Entertainment category.[7]
He completed a masters at the Centre for Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies at University of Toronto in 2013.
In 2016, Nestruck married playwright and screenwriter Charlotte Corbeil-Coleman. He cited the need to be more present at home for their children, thus making it difficult for him to attend evening theatrical shows, as a reason for his shift to television criticism in 2024.[1]
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