Nick Payne

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Wanderlust

Writer

A Life

Writer

Constellations

Writer

Theatre

Writer 

A Life
Director Carrie Cracknell
Starring
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
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    A meditation on how we say goodbye to those we love most, starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

    The Public Theater and Broadway
    Incognito US
    Director Doug Hughes
    Starring
  • Geneva Carr, Charlie Cox, Heather Lind, Morgan Spector
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    Manhattan Theatre Club, New York
    Elegy
    Director Josie Rourke
    Starring
  • Barbara Flynn
  • Zoe Wanamaker
  • Nina Sosanya
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    A moving story of three women who’ve made the choice between love and survival.

    Donmar Warehouse
    Constellations
    Director Michael Longhurst
    Starring
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Ruth Wilson
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    A relationship between a man and a woman plays out in multiple different ways in parallel universes

    Constellations has been nominated for the Drama League Awards 2014-2015 for Outstanding Production of a Broadway of Off-Broadway Play and Distinguished Performance Award. 

    Samuel J. Friedman Theatre, Broadway
    The Art of Dying
    Part of the Open Court season
    The Royal Court
    Incognito
    Producer HighTide/nabokov/Live Theatre Newcastle in association with the North Wall
    Starring
  • Paul Hickey
  • Amelia Lowdell
  • Alison O'Donnell
  • Sargon Yelda
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    New commission premiering at HighTide Festival 2014 focusing on identity

    The Bush
    Blurred Lines
    Director Carrie Cracknell
    Starring
  • Marion Bailey
  • Ruth Sheen
  • Claire Skinner
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    Created with Carrie Cracknell, play exploring contemporary gender politics

    Shed, National Theatre
    The Same Deep Water As Me
    Director John Crowley
    Starring
  • Monica Dolan
  • Isabella Laughland
  • Nigel Lindsay
  •  

    Play set in the world of compensation claims and injury lawyers. 

    Nominated for the Olivier Award for Best New Comedy in 2014. 

    Donmar Warehouse
    If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet (US)
    Starring
  • Annie Funke
  • Michelle Gomez
  • Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Brian F. O'Byrne
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    American début of Nick's incisive look into an ordinary family
    Roundabout Theatre, New York
    Lay Down Your Cross
    Director Clare Lizzimore
    Starring
  • Lucy Phelps
  • Angela Terence
  • Andy de la Tour
  • Susan Wooldridge
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    Play about how bereavement fractures a family

    Hampstead Theatre
    Electra
    Director Carrie Cracknell
    Starring
  • Natasha Broomfield
  • Madeleine Potter
  • Alex Price
  • Martin Turner
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    New adaptation of the Greek myth
    Gate Theatre, London
    Wanderlust
    Director Simon Godwin
    Starring
  • Charles Edwards
  • Pippa Haywood
  • Isabella Laughland
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    Nick Payne's Royal Court debut is a comic look at sex and intimacy
    The Royal Court
    One Day When We Were Young
    Director Clare Lizzimore
    Starring
  • Maia Alexander
  • Andrew Sheridan
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    Play about the impact of the Second World War on the lives and loves of two people
    Sheffield Theatres/Paines Plough
    If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
    Winner: The George Devine Award
    Director Josie Rourke
    Starring
  • Michael Begley
  • Ailish O'Connor
  • Rafe Spall
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    The Bush Theatre
    Switzerland
    Director Kate Wasserberg
    Hightide Theatre Festival, Suffolk
    Constellations (1)
    Nominated: Evening Standard Best Play
    Starring
  • Sally Hawkins
  • Rafe Spall
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    Play exploring love and free will through quantum phsyics
    The Royal Court

    TV

    Writer & Creator 

    Dreams of Leaving

    Adaptation of Rupert Thomson novel. 

    See-Saw Films
    In Development
    Wanderlust
    Producer Roanna Benn, Kate Crowther
    Director Luke Snellin, Lucy Tcherniak
    Starring
  • Toni Collette
  • Steven Mackintosh
  • Zawe Ashton
  • Royce Pierreson
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    Drama Republic for BBC One, Netflix

    Writer 

    The Secrets
    Director Dominic Savage
    Starring
  •  

    New series, for which Nick wrote 'The Dilemma' and 'The Return'

    Working Title Television for BBC

    Film

    Writer 

    Lolito
    Producer Judy Counihan

    Feature adaptation of book by Ben Brooks

    Film Four
    In development
    Last Letter From Your Lover
    Starring
  • Felicity Jones
  • Shailene Woodley
  • Joe Alwyn
  • Nabhaan Rizwan
  • Ncuti Gatwa
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    Adapted from JoJo Moyes' best-selling novel

    Studiocanal
    Blueprint Pictures
    The Sense of an Ending
    Creator Julian Barnes
    Director Ritesh Batra
    Starring
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Charlotte Rampling
  • Michelle Dockery
  • Emily Mortimer
  • Billy Howle
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    Adaptation of Julian Barnes' Man Booker Prize winning novel. Released in 2017.

    BBC Films
    Origin Films
    Nora
    Director Carrie Cracknell
    Starring
  • Hattie Morahan
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    Short film in response to Ibsen's A Doll's House
    The Space
    Young Vic

    Radio

    Writer 

    Celebrating 40 years of Paines Plough

    How I Learned to Drive
    Director Sasha Yevtushenko
    Starring
  • Amaka Okafor
  • James Lailey
  • Susie Riddell
  • Karl Theobald
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    Second part of Vital Statistics, about Agent Y who uses his statistical superpowers to intervene in troubled relationships

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    10 Lessons in Love
    A short piece as part of a collection of 10 writers different perspectives on love

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    The City is at a Standstill
    Producer Sasha Yevtushenko

    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4
    The Day We Caught the Train
    Producer Sasha Yevtushenko
    Starring
  • Olivia Coleman
  • Ralph Ineson
  • Nishi Malde
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    Broadcaster BBC Radio 4