Nicholas Wright (playwright)

Nicholas Verney Wright 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 and subsequently worked as a floorassistant in BBC Television and as a runner in film, notably John Schlesingers 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 Courts 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 Theatres 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 com

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