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NICK UNDERWOOD (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: Scottish Email: Click here to contact Website: n/a |
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Literary Agent: Amber Personal Management |
Nick graduated from Edinburgh University in 1998. He has worked in Scotland since 2001, mostly as an actor though also as a song-writer and more recently as a writer. His work as actor includes shows with The Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow, The Arches Theatre and Theatre Modo (for whom he has also written songs, most notably in Fringe First-winning show, Faustus and more recently for Ubu). He features regularly in radio drama for the BBC and is currently to be heard in Paul Temple and The Madison Mystery, an 8-part serial for Radio 4. TV credits include Emmerdale, The Royal Today, River City and The Angry Brigade (a drama-documentary for BBC 4). Nick has been writing since his university days where he wrote and directed Coffeelepsy, a farce for 7 actors, produced at the Edinburgh University Theatre in 1995. He joined forces with Catherine Shepherd and Harriet Smedley, devising comedy dramas for Who La Hoof Theatre Company which enjoyed success at the Edinburgh Fringe with shows, Overtired and Showing Off and Dance With Me (be mine) in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, he wrote and performed two comic monologues, 03 Shunter & Pat On Site, for The Man in The Moon Theatre in London. These plays brought him back to Scotland where he performed them at The Gilded Balloon. He re-wrote and extended the second of these pieces for his solo performance study module of the Acting Masters at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in 2003. The piece was performed under the title Loose Tongues in the Henry Younger Hall in the Edinburgh Fringe 2003. He is currently funded by the Scottish Arts Council to develop Naked Neighbour (twitching blind), which will be performed in early 2009 (venue t.b.c.). He is also waiting to hear if his latest work, Opening Lines, is to be commissioned by BBC Radio. As an invited participant in the Space 11 project at the CCA, he is in the process of founding company, Never Did Nothing. The mission of the company is to bring theatre and music together in original ways and to celebrate the power of the imagination to transcend the ordinary and shed light on what it might mean to be human.
Plays by Nick Underwood
Naked Neighbour (Twitching Blind) | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2007 | |||||
Company: | Never Did Nothing | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #74831 | |||
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Genre: | Comedy | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | 1 | ||
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Notes: | This play is being re-worked with funding from The Scottish Arts Council and will be produced early in 2009 in Scotland (venue t.b.c.), to be directed by writer/director Rob Evans and performed by Claire Knight and Ben Lewis. | |||||
Synopsis: | Narrated by a woman who appears in the guise of an Afterlife Detective. Bearing a resemblance to Humphrey Bogart, she is in touch with The Truth. The Truth is that life is a fiction but it beats the hell out of death. Drawn to life on earth and all of its fantasies, she tells a beautiful love story. At the centre of the story is Darcy, a man who has lived alone too long. Deeply romantic and a fanatic of 1940s cinema, Darcy talks to himself in the brogue of Brief Encounter but he confuses reality with fiction. He is on the brink of paranoid madness when a beautiful woman enters his life on roller-skates. She is called Charlie and has arrived in response to his advert for someone to sing with. And so they jam together in beautiful a cappella harmony. The chemistry bodes well but Darcy's conscience is getting the better of him. In his sleep, he creeps up to his loft where there's a large box, the contents of which he dare not admit. | |||||
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One Night Stand | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Mar 2010 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #107883 | |||
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Genre: | Piece | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 1 | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written by Nick Underwood, Developed with Sandy Grierson. | |||||
Synopsis: | "I pull up at a light. A woman waits to cross the road. I know her, sort of. She seems to think so too. She gets in. Get reddy-amber, wait for it. Go . . ." A night of romance like no other. Charged, funny, wistful and dark, One Night Stand is a tale suffused with charm and lyrical passion. "Morning has broken and it really is like the first morning. No blackbirds to speak of but Jesus, the crows. . . I draw the rug up over my thoughts and cover us both in the darkness of love." | |||||
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What Happened Is This | ||
| 1st Produced: | 02 Apr 2011 | |||||
Company: | Never Did Nothing | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #122311 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | Dot's in her late youth. She's coming home for a bit. Her Dad's tenant, Danny, wouldn't mind but he's not good with people unless they're not in the same room. Meanwhile, Dot's suspicion is roused as her Dad makes evermore frequent excursions on his bicycle, clad in professional lycra. A kitchen in a state of semi-permanent repair; a childhood bedroom where Dot can't get unpacked; a loft-studio where Danny broadcasts strange music and muses on a life in which he takes no part. Not yet anyway. | |||||
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