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Nicholas Verney Wright (1940, Cape Town, South Africa) 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 (LAMDA) and subsequently worked as a floor-assistant in BBC Television and as a runner in film, notably John Schlesinger's "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 Court's 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 Theatre's 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 competition for playwrights. 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'' (Riverside Studios) (George Devine Award) * 1979 ''The Gorky Brigade'' (Royal Court Theatre) * 1980 ''One Fine Day'' (Riverside Studios) * 1983 ''The Crimes of Vautrin'' (Joint Stock Theatre Company) * 1983 ''The Custom of the Country'' (Royal Shakespeare Company) * 1984 ''The Desert Air'' (Royal Shakespeare Company) * 1988 ''Mrs. Klein'' (i.e. Melanie Klein) (Royal National Theatre, Lucille Lortel Theatre, NY)) * 1993 ''More Tales of the City'' (TV adaptation) (Channel 4) * 1996 ''John Gabriel Borkman'' (adaptation) (Royal National Theatre) * 1998 ''Naked'' (adaptation) (Almeida Theatre and Playhouse Theatre) * 2000 ''Cressida'' (Almeida at the Albery Theatre) * 2001 ''Lulu'' (adaptation) (Almeida Theatre) * 2003 ''Vincent in Brixton'' (Olivier Award, best new play 2003) (Royal National Theatre, Golden Theater NY.) * 2003 ''Three Sisters'' (adaptation) (Royal National Theatre) * 2003 ''His Dark Materials'' adapted from the trilogy by Philip Pullman (Royal National Theatre) * 2003 ''The Little Prince'' (adapted opera libretto) (BBC Television) * 2006 ''Man on the Moon'' (TV opera libretto with music by Jonathan Dove) (Channel 4) * 2006 ''Thérèse Raquin'' (adaptation) Chichester Festival Theatre and Royal National Theatre) * 2007 ''The Reporter'' (Royal National Theatre) * 2008 ''He's Talking'' (Royal National Theatre) * 2008 ''The Big Bonanza'', ''Poison'' and ''The Boy with an African Heart'' for ''The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency'' (TV) (BBC TV, HBO) * 2011 ''Rattigan's Nijinsky'' (Chichester Festival Theatre) * 2011 ''The Last of the Duchess'' adapted from the book by Caroline Blackwood. (Hampstead Theatre) * 2012 ''Travelling Light'' (Royal National Theatre) * 2013 ''A Human Being Died That Night'', adapted from the book by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Hampstead Theatre, Fugard Theatre Cape Town, Market Theatre Johannesburg) * 2014 "Regeneration", adapted from the novel by Pat Barker (Northampton Royal and Derngate Theatre and Touring Consortium Theatre Company) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nicholas Wright (playwright)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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