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Nicholas Pierpan

NICHOLAS PIERPAN

  
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Nicholas Pierpan writes for stage, screen and radio. His most recent play, the MADDENING RAIN, had a successful London run before going on a UK tour and to New York City's 2011 Brits Off Broadway festival. Nicholas Pierpan has twice won the Cameron Mackintosh Award for New Writing for TOO MUCH the SUN and the PROBLEM WITH the SEVENTH YEAR. TOO MUCH the SUN was published by Samuel French in 2008. the PROBLEM WITH the SEVENTH YEAR was produced in 2009 by Theatre Ulm, Germany, after an Edinburgh run: Nicholas Pierpan was also a finalist for the 2009 Yale Drama Prize for DEVOLUTION. His short play BIRD was recently chosen for the Miniaturists at the Arcola Theatre. Another short piece, SOMETHING CAME OUT, was selected for the 2009 Off Cut Festival. Nicholas Pierpan won the 2009 BAFTA/Script Factory Serious Screenwriting Award. In 2010 he was chosen by Faber for their screenwriting academy. Nicholas Pierpan was commissioned by BAFTA-award winning Little Brother Productions to create a six-part television Drama about a London school. Nicholas Pierpan was selected for the 2010 BBC Sparks Radio Residency. He has since written an Afternoon Play for BBC Radio4 (TAKE A VIRTUAL GIRL LIKE YOU), an episode for BBC Radio7's Man in Black series (the PRINTED NAME) and appeared on BBC Radio3's the Verb (with FROM A DISTant ROOM). Nicholas Pierpan has published his poetry in Poetry Review, the Guardian Review, Granta/British Council New Writing, Tower Poetry Review, the Liberal and elsewhere; his first volume is forthcoming. He holds a PhD in English Literature from Oxford University, where he captained the boxing team. He lectures on film and reviews fiction for the Times.

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

         Bird         Devolution         Maddening Rain, The         Problem With the Seventh Year, The         Something Came Out         Too Much the Sun         You Can Still Make A Killing

Bird

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Devolution

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Maddening Rain, The

Maddening Rain, The
"We're sixteen and Will writes this story about a medieval village that gets hit by a terrible storm. And the rain in that storm makes everyone go crazy. Everyone whose skin comes into contact with the rainwater goes insane, mental, like in a movie . . ." An unnamed Man speaks to the audience, describing how he first moved to London after leaving school and worked in a series of dead-end jobs before being recruited to a securities finance company in the City. Seduced by the prospect of new suits and six-figure bonuses, he is soon assisting Andy, a trader, in borrowing and making millions of pounds a day. But when the economy takes a downturn and Andy's risk-taking starts to incur huge losses, the pressure begins to take its toll. Disturbing revelations and unnerving sound effects combine to create a sense of impending personal breakdown in Nicholas Pierpan's powerful monologue.

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Darourne Luff

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Samuel French, London >>>   978-0573142147

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Problem With the Seventh Year, The

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Something Came Out

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Off Cut Festival    2009

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Too Much the Sun

Too Much the Sun
A young man just out of prison gets a job with a friend of his Father repairing clocks. Meanwhile a young prince who has been usurped has to perform a number of quests to regain his throne

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Samuel French Ltd, London   978-0573023866

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You Can Still Make A Killing

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Four years on from the collapse of Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis. It's time to work out what's wrong. It's time to look at the heart of the system. You Can Still Make a Killing is the story of the normal men and women who fill the City's institutions, of a world radically altered when right became wrong, and of the private worlds that fall apart when there are no alternatives in sight.

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