Over the last few years Nick has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare
Company. In 2011 he was in Cardenio, The City Madam, and Marat/Sade, and
for the World Shakespeare Festival, in the following year, he played Sir Toby Belch
in Twelfth Night, Gonzalo in The Tempest and Egeon in The Comedy of Errors.
Nick was in one of the last episodes of Poirot, and The History Boys at the
Sheffield Crucible Theatre. Nick also played the irascible New Yorker, Ben Lyon, in
The Lyons at the Menier Chocolate Factory.
Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies opened to rave reviews at the RSC in
Stratford before transferring to the West End, then had a fifteen week run on
Broadway. Nick’s Broadway Blog can be read here.
Nick was more recently in Platonov, at the Chichester Festival Theatre, which then
transferred to the National. He re-joined the RSC for the 2017 Swan Season,
beginning with Vice Versa, and later in the year, Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of
Carthage.
Nick completed shooting on a James Graham screenplay for Channel 4 earlier in the
year, and has just completed a fourth series of the popular documentary Murder
Maps, which he presents. His latest documentary series, Myths and Monsters, is
available on Netflix.
He is currently appearing at the Almeida Theatre in The Wild Duck.
Nick’s book On Bard Duty, about Shakespeare, Stratford and working at the RSC,
is available on Amazon. Click here for a reader review, or click on the cover picture,
left, to purchase a copy.
