Plays by Ron Nicol

Ron Nicol has had a varied career as actor, director, stage manager, lecturer, broadcaster, playwright and drama adjudicator. He became a member of the Lyric Players while he was a student in Belfast, going on to spend several years in professional theatre. He worked in repertory at Perth Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Theatre Royal, Harrogate Opera House and York Theatre Royal, with John Ridley Projects at Chelmsford Civic Theatre, with touring productions, and in musicals, pantomime, music hall and variety.

Now based in Fife, Scotland, he trained radio broadcasters at Glenrothes College, produced and presented a weekly programme on Radio Tay's Campus Radio, lectured in theatre with the University of St Andrews Adult Education Department, and was a drama adviser for the Scottish Community Drama Association . A member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators, he's well known at festivals all over Scotland and in Northern Ireland. He's currently Principal Judge of the Geoffrey Whitworth playwriting competition.

An award-winning playwright, he's published in the UK, the USA and the Netherlands (in Dutch), and has been produced throughout Britain and in Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Holland and Luxembourg.

In 1978 he co-founded Glenrothes Theatre Company with his wife Norma, a former professional actress, and since then he's written and directed most of their senior, youth and children's productions.

He has a BA from Queen's University Belfast, a post-graduate teaching qualification from Moray House College Edinburgh, and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

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Links to Ron Nicol's publishers...

Baker's Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

New Theatre Publications

Spotlight Publications

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