Nicholas Wright (playwright)

For other people of the same name, see Nicholas Wright.

Nicholas Wright
Born	1940 (age 70–71) Cape Town, South Africa

Nicholas Wright (1940, Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist. He opened and ran the Theatre Upstairs at the Royal Court Theatre, was joint artistic director of the Royal Court and is a former literary manager and associate director of the Royal National Theatre. Wright began acting as a child, and trained at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA). 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

• 1978 Treetops
• 1979 The Gorky Brigade
• 1980 One Fine Day
• 1983 The Crimes of Vautrin
• 1983 The Custom of the Country
• 1984 The Desert Air
• 1988 Mrs. Klein (i.e. Melanie Klein)
• 1993 More Tales of the City (tv adaptation)
• 1996 John Gabriel Borkman (adaptation)
• 1998 Naked (adaptation)
• 2000 Cressida
• 2001 Lulu (adaptation)
• 2003 Vincent in Brixton
• 2003 Three Sisters (adaptation)
• 2003 His Dark Materials
• 2003 The Little Prince (adapted opera libretto)
• 2006 Man on the Moon (TV opera libretto with music by Jonathan Dove)
• 2006 Thérèse Raquin (adaptation)
• 2007 The Reporter
• 2008 He's Talking
• 2008 The Big Bonanza, Poison and The Boy with an African Heart for The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency (TV)
• 2011 "Rattigan's Nijinsky"
• 2011 "The Last of the Duchess" adapted from the book by Caroline Blackwood.

References

• "Plays by Nicholas Wright". The Playwrights Database. 2008. http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsW/wright-nicholas.html. Retrieved 2008-09-26. 

External links

• Nicholas Wright at the Internet Broadway Database
• Nicholas Wright at the Internet Movie Database
• Nicholas Wright at the Internet Off-Broadway Database

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Name	Wright, Nicholas
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Date of birth	1940
Place of birth	Cape Town, South Africa
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