Nick Stimson

Nick Stimson is a freelance playwright, theatre director and poet. He is also Associate Director of The Theatre Royal, Plymouth. Productions include: writer and director of ‘A Winter’s Tale’ (with the composer Howard Goodall) at The Sage, Gateshead and The Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford & Landor Theatre, London, (winner of Best Off West musical at the Offies 1914); ’Sailors and Sweethearts’, a play about the artist Beryl Cook, at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth; writer and director of ‘NHS The Musical’ (with music by Jimmy Jewell) at the Drum Theatre, Plymouth and the The Venue, Leicester Square, London; writer of ‘Hello Mister Capello’ for the Palace Theatre, Watford; co-writer of ‘Promised Land’ (written with Anthony Clavane) for Red Ladder Theatre, The Carriage Works, Leeds; writer of ‘Who Ate All The Pies?’ (with music by Jimmy Jewell) at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London; writer of ‘The Venus Factor’ and ‘The Sunshine Gang' (with music and lyrics by Annemarie Lewis Thomas) for the MTA at the Bridewell Theatre, London; writer and director of ‘Korczak’ (with music by Chris Williams) at Theatre Royal, Plymouth, YMTUK at The Rose Theatre, London and Bialystok Opera Poland (international tour); writer and director of ‘The Day We Played Brazil’ (with music by Chris Williams) for the Northcott Theatre, Exeter; writer and director of ‘Gabriel’ (with the composer Andrew Fisher) for the University of Southampton; writer of ‘Inventing Utopia’, a play about Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst, for production at Dartington; co-writer (with Anthony Clavane) of ‘Leeds Lads’ for Red Ladder Theatre at the Carriage Works, Leeds.