Last year Gareth Evans, from Prestatyn, won the Bafta Cymru award in the Best Newcomer category, having made his debut as a director. This time he is one of three nominees for the directors' award.
Gareth, who goes under the stage name Gareth Bryn, has been nominated for his work on the S4C drama series Y Pris (The Price), about gangsters in West Wales.
Two others involved in the series, Mathew Gravelle and Tim Price, have also been nominated in the Best Actor and Best Screenwriter categories.
Gareth, 30, attended Ysgol y Llys, Prestatyn, and Ysgol Glan Clwyd, St Asaph, before going on to study at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.
His big break came when he had one of the lead roles in the West End musical Mamma Mia, and in 2005 he appeared in another hit London show, Acorn Antiques - The Musical.
He has appeared in numerous Welsh language productions including the soap Rownd a Rownd and Treflan, and won the 2006 Bafta Cymru for his work on the light drama Cowbois ac Injans.
Now living in Cardiff, he has recently completed the second series of Y Pris, which will be screened later this year.
He now hopes to try his hand at writing a drama which he can then direct.
He said that as an actor he felt a little like a puppet, having limited control on what the end result might be because fine performances could be edited out.
"The beauty about being a director is that you get to say something with your work," he said.
The 17th Bafta Cymru awards will be presented at a ceremony in Cardiff's Millennium Centre on April 27. The compere will be Blue Peter presenter Gethin Jones.