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 re-joined the RSC for the 2017 Swan Season, with Vice Versa and Marlowe’s
Dido, Queen of Carthage.
Last year, after completing shooting the James Graham screenplay Brexit: the
Uncivil War, Nick was at the Almeida Theatre in highly Robert Icke’s highly
acclaimed The Wild Duck. He is now working on The Crown and filiming the fifth
series of the popular documentary Murder Maps, which he presents. His
documentary series, Myths and Monsters, is available on Netflix.
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.
