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Simon Nye

SIMON NYE  (1958 - )

 Nationality:    English
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Literary Agent:    Knight Hall Agency Ltd  represented by Charlotte Knight


Simon's current projects include taking over the BBC sitcom IN WITH THE FLYNNS, a play for the National Theatre, and a comedy drama for ITV Studios. Simon Nye was born in 1958 in Burgess Hill, Sussex, England. He translated books on Wagner, Matisse and Braque before turning in his late 20s to fiction, publishing two novels. He started writing for TV in 1990, adapting his first novel MEN BEHAVING BADLY into a situation comedy. MEN BEHAVING BADLY has won numerous awards and was the most-repeated comedy show in the 1990s. Simon Nye also won the 1995 Writers' Guild of Great Britain's award for Best Situation Comedy. His comedy drama series, FRANK STUBBS PROMOTES, starring Timothy Spall as a low-life wheeler-dealer cum-ticket tout, was based on his second novel WIDEBOY. Three series of Simon's situation comedy IS IT LEGAL? were broadcast between autumn 1995 and 1998. It won the Best ITV Sitcom award at the British Comedy Awards. TRUE LOVE, a one-hour romantic comedy film produced by Granada TV and starring Emma Wray was aired in 1996. Simon adapted it into the comedy-drama MY WONDERFUL LIFE, which ran for three series to 1999. Simon's critically acclaimed BBC2 series HOW DO YOU WANT ME? starring Dylan Moran debuted in 1998 and ran for twelve episodes. He wrote four pantomimes for ITV between 1998 and 2001. Two series of BEAST, a sitcom set in a veterinary practice, were broadcast on BBC1 in 1999-2000, and Simon's family comedy THE SAVAGES was shown also on BBC1 the following year. Simon adapted THE RAILWAY CHILDREN for ITV. The 2-hour film was broadcast in 2001. His adaptation of POLLYANNA was shown on New Year's Day 2003.

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

 Accidental Death Of An Anarchist         Don Juan

Accidental Death Of An Anarchist

Simon Nye
Highly contentious and subversive at the time of its first production in Milan in December 1970, Accidental Death of an Anarchist has since become one of Fo's best known and translated texts. Based on a true-life story it throws in to relief the judicial and police corruption of 1970s Italy. Simon Nye's superb translation brings out the parallels with our situation today in witty, contemporary dialogue.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Dario Fo

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Methuen Drama    9780413773425

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Don Juan

Synopsis:
Moliere's audacious 1665 comic masterpiece about serial womaniser, Don Juan

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Original Playwright - Moliere

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