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Nicola Wilson

NICOLA WILSON

  (1975 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    The Writers Company  

Nicola has written for theatre, radio and television. Her new play, PLAQUES AND TANGLES, will be premiering at The Royal Court Theatre in Autumn 2015 and has been selected as one of three plays to be supported by the Jerwood Charitable Foundation as a Jerwood New Playwrights commission. Nicola completed the BBC Writers' Academy in 2009 and wrote across Continuing Drama Series in 2010. After the Academy, she continued to write for HOLBY CITY and wrote further episodes of EASTENDERS. She has written two episodes of FATHER BROWN for BBC Daytime. She has written an afternoon play, CUT TO THE HEART for Radio 4 and Radio 3's The Wire produced her play LIFE ON THE EDGES earlier in the year. Her stage play, MOONWALKING, was performed at Oran Mor theatre in Glasgow 2008 and she has also written short plays for Clean Break and Paines Plough. Prior to writing, she was Literary Manager at the Bush Theatre between 2001 and 2005 and Senior Reader at the National Theatre before that. She is also a freelance florist and dramaturg and co-adapted Margaret Atwood's PENELOPIAD for the RSC, playing at the Swan Theatre before opening at the National Arts Centre in Canada in 2007. She is currently developing original TV projects with BBC Drama and Drama Republic.

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below is a list of Nicola Wilson's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Moonwalking         Penelopiad, The         Plaques And Tangles         Standing In the Sun         Tick Tock

Moonwalking

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Written as interlinking monologues, the play presents three characters suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Theyre strangers who have been brought together by something that happened a year ago, she says. Its about what it does to us as people when were exposed to the brutality of war or the guilt of being married to someone who does remarkable things.

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Oran Mor, Play, Pie and A Pint

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short play

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Penelopiad, The

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RSC

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Adaptation

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Plaques And Tangles

Plaques And Tangles
I do not accept there is anything wrong with me Days before her wedding Megan discovers she has a 50-50 chance of developing early onset Alzheimer's. Years later she's offered a genetic test. But if she's got the gene does she really want to know? Megan, 21. Megan, 47. Megan, 32. Megan, 27. One woman lurches through time on a wild memory trip while her young family deal with the consequences. "I can't think. But I still feel. And most of the time I feel scared. Scared because it's too soon. I haven't finished yet."

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Play/Drama

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Standing In the Sun

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P.S. Clean Break

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Tick Tock

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Later for Paines Plough

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