Nick Warburton
Playwright, Director & Actor
Nick is a highly successful playwright and author, and an accomplished director and actor.
Nick's published stage plays include Sour Grapes And Ashes, Don't Blame It On The Boots, Zartan, Receive This Light, The Loophole, Not Bobby, Easy Stages, Distracted Globe, The Droitwich Discovery, Ghost Writer, Round The World With Class Six, The Last Bread Pudding, Office Song, Domby Dom, Secrets, The Nativity Letters, Waiting For Nesbit, Music Loversand The Frozen Fields. His full-length play Touch Wood was premiered at The Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough.
A number of his plays have appeared at the Edinburgh Festival, including Straightening Pictures, Out Of The Rose Garden, Bright Glade - Tales From Tolstoy, Ackford's Monster, Shy and Critical Condition.
Nick has also written over 20 plays for BBC Radios 3, 4 & 5 as well as a number of television scripts for Doctors, Holby City, Born And Bred and Eastenders. Nick was the winner of the BBC Peter Tinniswood Award for Best Radio Play of 2005. His many radio plays include Witnessand the successful Radio 4 series On Mardle Fen and Holding Back The Tide.
His adaptation of The Moonstone was premiered by Bawds in December 2003; in it he played Begbie, Herncastle, Dr Candy, Old Ablewhite, Mrs Yolland and A Stationmaster!
Nick directed The Elephant Man and, due to the illness of the actor who was to have played Frederick Treves, took over the role at the dress rehearsal!
He directed his own one-act play The Last Bread Pudding in 2018, which won 2nd Place at the Sawston Drama Festival, and then 1st Place, Best Actor, Best Cameo Performance & the Audience Award at the Cambridge Drama Festival that year.
In 2008 we were delighted that Nick became a Patron of Bawds.
Performing Roles have included:
- A Man For All Seasons (Sir Thomas More)
- A Christmas Carol(Ghost of Christmas Present & Others)
- An Ideal Husband (Sir Robert Chiltern)
- The Elephant Man (Frederick Treves)
- Katherine Howard (Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk)
- The Happiest Days Of Your Life (The Reverend Edward Peck)
- The Man In The Iron Mask (Aramis)
- The Moonstone (Multiple roles)
- Dick Barton – Special Agent (BBC Announcer)
- Three Men In A Boat (Sexton, Train Traveller & others)
- Twelfth Night (Fabian)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Grandfather)
- When We Are Married (Herbert Soppitt)
- One Night In November(John Martin)
- The Count Of Monte Cristo (De Boville / Noirtier)
- Comic Potential(Doctor/ Lester Trainsmith / Man in Shop / Man in Restaurant)
- Separate Tables (Mr Fowler)
- The Real Mrs Tiggy-Winkle (Radio Play) (William Heelis)
- Night Of January 16th (Dr Thomas Kirkland)
- Treasure Island (Squire Trelawney)
- The Secret Rapture (Irwin)
- Educating Rita (Frank)
- Round And Round The Garden (Norman)
- A Chorus Of Disapproval (Guy)
- The Lady’s Not For Burning (Thomas)
- The Importance Of Being Earnest (Jack Worthing)
- Murder In The Cathedral (Priest)
- Hedda Gabler (Tesman)
- Racing Demon (The Rt Revd Gilbert Heffernan)
- The Man Born To Be King (Jesus)
- Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me (Michael)
- Travels With My Aunt (Wordsworth, Visconti & Others)
- Measure For Measure (Provost)
- Witness (Pilate)
- Oh! What A Lovely War (Ensemble).
Production Roles have included:
- Dickens’ Children (Devised)
- Three Men In A Boat (Adaptation)
- The Old Curiosity Shop (Adaptation)
- The Count Of Monte Cristo (Adaptation)
- The Moonstone (Adaptation)
- A Little Brief Authority (Adaptation)
- Doctor Faustus (Adaptation)
- North Of Boston (Two productions) (Adaptation & Director)
- Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales(Adaptation & Director)
- The Tinderbox & Other Stories (Director – Princess And The Pea)
- Nicholas Nickleby (Director)
- Under Milk Wood (Director)
- Absent Friends (Director)
- The Authentic Life Of Billy The Kid (Director)
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director)
- Waiting For Lefty (Director)
- The Last Bread Pudding (Director)
- Where People Perform (Director)
- A Cold Supper Behind Harrods(Director)
- Chekhov Four Farces (Director – Swan Song)
- Twelfth Night (Director)
- Time Of My Life (Director)
- Joking Apart (Director)
- The Elephant Man(Director)
- Sailor, Beware! (Director)
- Supernatural Shakespeare(Asst Director & Script Narrative)
- Shakespeare Shorts (Asst Director & Script Narrative)
