Over the last few years Nick has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company. For the World Shakespeare Festival, he played Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Gonzalo in The Tempest and Egeon in The Comedy of Errors. He was in The History Boys at the Sheffield Crucible Theatre and 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, then transferred to the West End before a fifteen week run on Broadway. Nick re-joined the RSC in 2017 for his seventh season, in Vice Versa and Marlowe’s Dido, Queen of Carthage. After TV’s Brexit: the Uncivil War, Nick was at the Almeida Theatre in Robert Icke’s highly acclaimed The Wild Duck. He played Jim Prior in the latest series of The Crown. In 2022 Nick made his seventh series of Murder Maps, following his latest documentary series, Railway Murders for UKTV. His series, Myths and Monsters, is available on Netflix. Nick won the Offie award for Best Supporting Performance by an Actor for Yellowfin at the Southwark Playhouse. In 2023 he completed a run in Agatha Christie’s Witness for the Prosecution, and in 2024 he played the Rabbi in Don’t Destroy Me at the Arcola Theatre. More recently Nick played the controversial role of Anthony Fox in Emmerdale. The tour of A Man fo All Seasons, in which he plays Wolsey contiues until 16th March. 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, top left, to purchase a copy.

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