Nick is a playwright, poet, screenwriter and dramaturg.
Screen
ONE LIFE (See-Saw Films)
Co-written with Lucinda Coxon
Starring Anthony Hopkins, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Flynn
Directed by James Hawes
On release worldwide
ROMULUS MY FATHER (Arena Films)
Directed by Richard Roxburgh and starring Eric Bana and Franka Potente.
Won Best Feature the Australian Film Institute Awards
In Development
UNTITLED TRUE STORY (Mubi)
Feature Screenplay
MEMOIR ADAPTATION (Brouhaha)
Feature Screenplay
NOVEL ADAPTATION (Made Up Stories)
Feature Screenplay
ORIGINAL TV SERIES (New Regency)
Pilot and Bible
Current Theatre
Nick is writing a new commission, SERVER, for The Young Vic. His play BIRCH GROVE for producer Ruth Jackson is in in development.
He is writing a new play for Bath Theatre Royal to be directed by Deborah Warner.
Previous Theatre
ALL THE ANGELS
The Globe
Dir. Jonathan Mumby
BETWEEN WORLDS original libretto
Barbican
Composer Tansy Davis
directed by Deborah Warner
CAVE
London Sinfonietta
Tenor Mark Padmore
EARTH SONG original libretto
Composer Rachel Portman,
Broadcast on Radio 3
TO REACH THE CLOUDS
Nottingham Playhouse
SUCCESS
National Theatre Connections project
Poetry
THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT (Bloodaxe) won the Waterstone’s/Forward Prize for Best First Collection. It was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His subsequent collections are FROM THE WORD GO (2007), THE FAREWELL GLACIER (2012) and OUT OF RANGE (2018). His poem “The Future” was recorded by Andrew Scott, and appears in Letters to the Earth (Collins, 2019). Nick has collaborated with United Visual Artists on MESSAGE FROM THE UNSEEN WORLD, a permanent poetic installation about Alan Turing at Paddington, and HIGH ARCTIC about climate change at the National Maritime Museum in London. He has also published a study of THE POETRY OF W B YEATS (Penguin).
Nick’s adaptation of THE FAREWELL GLACIER was streamed live from COP26 in Glasgow, read by Peter Mullan, with music composed and performed by Emma Donald and Isbel Pendelbury.
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