Nicholas Wright (playwright)

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Nicholas Wright
Born

1940 (age 75–76)


Cape Town, South Africa

Nicholas Verney Wright (1940, Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist. He was born in Cape Town, attended Rondebosch Boys' School and from the age of six was a child actor on radio and on the stage. He came to London in 1958 to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and subsequently worked as a floor-assistant in BBC Television and as a runner in film, notably John Schlesinger's "Far From the Madding Crowd." He started work at the Royal Court in 1965 as Casting Director and became, first, an Assistant Director there and then the first Director of the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs, where for several years he presented an innovatory programme of new writing. From 1975 - 1977 he was joint artistic director of the Royal Court and he was subsequently a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Board. He is former literary manager and associate director of the Royal National Theatre, and a former member of the National Theatre Board. In 2015 and 2016 he will be the judge of the Yale Drama Series competition for playwrights. His publications include 99 Plays, a survey of drama from Aeschylus to the present day, and Changing Stages, co-written with Richard Eyre.

Theatre work

His libretto for "Marnie", an opera by Nico Muhly, based on the novel by Winston Graham, will be produced by the English National Opera, London in 2017 and by the Metropolitan Opera, New York in 2018.

He is currently (2016) writing a stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's "Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" for Gale King Productions and writing an original play about the last twenty-four hours in the life of Benazir Bhutto.

References

Nicholas Wright at the Royal Court: http://www.royalcourttheatre.com/about-us/artistic-directors/nicholas-wright

Nicholas Wright on "Mrs. Klein": http://www.connectingconversations.org/?location_id=2&item=277

Nicholas Wright on "His Dark Materials" http://www.stagework.org.uk/webdav/harmonise@Page%252F@id=6010&Section%252F@id=159.html

Neil Dowden in Exeunt Magazine on "Travelling Light" http://exeuntmagazine.com/features/nicholas-wright/

Spectator review of "A Human Being Died That Night" http://www.spectator.co.uk/arts/theatre/9225251/a-play-whose-value-to-history-it-would-be-hard-to-exaggerate/

Michael Coveney on Nicholas Wright: http://www.whatsonstage.com/london-theatre/news/05-2014/nicholas-wright-interview-hampstead-theatre-a-human-being-died-that-night_34562.html

Paul Taylor reviews "Regeneration" http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/regeneration-royal-and-derngate-northampton--review-gutting-and-unmissable-9710669.html

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