Nick Stafford

Nick Stafford

Nick Stafford (born 1959 in Staffordshire) is a British playwright and writer.[1] He is best known for writing the stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse, which garnered him a Laurence Olivier Award nomination for Best New Play in 2008,[2][3] and the Tony Award for Best Play in 2011.[4]

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Career

Stafford trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance,[5] and his first professionally produced play was commissioned in 1987 by the Half Moon Young People’s Theatre, where Stafford was writer-in-residence. He also got commissions from other small companies, before going to the Young Vic, also as writer-in-residence.[6] His first play there, The Snow Queen, ran for two years.[6] He has had several plays produced at the National Theatre and at Birmingham Rep.[7] Stafford's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse was first produced in London in 2007, where it is still running; other productions are running in New York and will open next year (2012) in Toronto, Canada. His play Katherine Desouza has been adapted as a forthcoming film, Baptism.[8] Five of his plays have been published by Faber and Faber.[1]

Stafford also has had several plays produced on BBC Radio 4,[1] and has been commissioned to write movies and television drama; none of these bar a BBC short has been filmed.[6]

Stafford was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Roehampton University from 2003–06 and at the University of Southampton from 2007-09.[1][6]

Stafford's first novel, Armistice, was published in 2009.

Works

Plays

Radio plays

All were produced for BBC Radio 4.

Novels

  • 2009 Armistice novel.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Nick Stafford". Royal Literary Fund. http://www.rlf.org.uk/fellowshipscheme/profile.cfm?fellow=48&menu=4. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  2. ^ Smith, Alistair (2008-02-07). "Hairspray leads the nominations at the Laurence Olivier Awards". The Stage. http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/19773/hairspray-leads-the-nominations-at-the. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  3. ^ Thwaite, Mark. "Interview: Nick Stafford". Quercus Books. http://www.quercusbooks.co.uk/blog/2010/09/20/interview-nick-stafford/. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  4. ^ "Winners List - All Categories". Tony Awards. http://www.tonyawards.com/en_US/nominees/winners.html. Retrieved 14 June 2011. 
  5. ^ "News: Rose Bruford College would like to congratulate all those involved in War Horse". Rose Bruford College. 2011-06-13. http://www.bruford.ac.uk/news/rose-bruford-college-would-like-to-congratulate-all-those-involved-in-war-horse.aspx?newsyear=. Retrieved 2011-06-14. 
  6. ^ a b c d "Nick Stafford Interview". WriteWords. 2006-01-16. http://www.writewords.org.uk/interviews/nick_stafford.asp. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Nick Stafford". Doollee.com. http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsS/stafford-nick.html. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  8. ^ "Baptism". Slingshot Studios. http://slingshot-studios.com/our-films/in-development/baptism/. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 
  9. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Nick Stafford". The Agency. http://www.theagency.co.uk/clients/clientdisplay.html?viewListing=Mjkx. Retrieved 2011-04-05. 
  10. ^ "Playback: The Bulletin of the National Sound Archive". The National Sound Archive. Summer 1993. http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/soundarch/saplayback/playback5.pdf. Retrieved 2011-04-05. 
  11. ^ "War Horse: Nick Stafford". Faber and Faber. http://www.faber.co.uk/work/war-horse/9780571240159/. Retrieved 2011-04-03. 

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