Nicholas Wright

Co-Artistic Director 1975-1977.

Nicholas joined the Royal Court as Casting Director before becoming the first director of the Theatre Upstairs in 1969. From 1975 to 1977, he was Co-Artistic Director of the Royal Court along with Robert Kidd. He joined the National Theatre as Literary Manager in 1984 and was an Associate Director until 1998. He is also a playwright.

DIRECTING CREDITS FOR THE ROYAL COURT INCLUDE

The Great Caper by Ken Campbell; Bird Child by David Lan; Captain Oates’ Left Stock by John Antrobus; Owners by Caryl Churchill; AC/DC by Heathcote Williams; Was He Anyone? by N.F. Simpson.

PLAYS INCLUDE

Treetops and One Fine Day (Riverside Studios); The Gorky Brigade (Royal Court); The Crimes of Vautrin (Joint Stock); The Custom of the Country and The Desert Air (both RSC); Cressida (Almeida at the Albery); Mrs. Klein, Vincent in Brixton, The Reporter and His Dark Materials, adapted from Philip Pullman’s novel (all National). Also, versions of Ibsen’s John Gabriel Borkman, Chekhov’s Three Sisters and Zola’s Thérèse Raquin (all National); versions of Pirandello’s Naked and Wedekind’s Lulu (Almeida).

OTHER WRITING CREDITS

Libretto for the opera The Little Prince (music by Rachel Portman), premiered by Houston Grand Opera in 2003; libretto for the television opera Man on the Moon (music by Jonathan Dove), shown on Channel 4 in 2006. Also, three episodes of The No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, transmitted by the BBC in 2009. Writing about the theatre includes 99 Plays, a personal selection from Aeschylus to the present day and Changing Stages, co-written with Richard Eyre.