Nick Perry is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is a graduate of the

University of Hull The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1927 as University College Hull. The main university campus is located in Hull and is home to the Hull ...

and the

National Film and Television School The National Film and Television School (NFTS) is a film, television and games school established in 1971 and based at Beaconsfield Studios in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England. It is featured in the 2021 ranking by ''The Hollywood Repor ...

. His first play ''Arrivederci Millwall'' was produced by The Combination at The Albany Empire, Deptford in 1985 and jointly won the

Samuel Beckett Award The Samuel Beckett Award was a British award set up in 1983 and, over the next decade, awarded to writers, who in the opinion of a committee of critics, producers and publishers, showed innovation and excellence in writing for the performing arts. ...

. ''Smallholdings'' was first performed at the

King's Head Theatre The King's Head Theatre, founded in 1970 by Dan Crawford, is an off-West End venue in London. It is the second oldest operating pub theatre in the UK. In 2021, Mark Ravenhill became Artistic Director and the theatre focusses on producing LGBTQ ...

in 1986 and ''The Vinegar Fly'' at the

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in 1988. ''Near Cricket St Thomas, 1919'' was directed by

Alan Ayckbourn Sir Alan Ayckbourn (born 12 April 1939) is a prolific British playwright and director. He has written and produced as of 2021, more than eighty full-length plays in Scarborough and London and was, between 1972 and 2009, the artistic director of ...

at the

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, Scarborough in 1997. ''An Illustrated Talk'' was performed at the New Theatre, Sydney as part of the 2008 Short and Sweet festival. Perry's first radio play '' The Loop'' was broadcast on

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in November 2009 and won a

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bronze award. Andrew Scott was named Best Supporting Actor at the inaugural BBC Audio Drama awards in 2012 for his performance in Perry's radio play, ''Referee''. In 2022, ''London Particular'' was shortlisted for the Best Original Series or Serial award.BBC Audio Drama Awards 2022 The Finalists
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Filmography

* Arrivederci Millwall (1990) *

Tube Tales ''Tube Tales'' is a 1999 British anthology film of nine short films based on the true-life experiencesThe person who submitted the details of the experience to Time Out magazine being credited as 'Originator'. of London Underground passengers as ...

(1999) **segment "Steal Away" * The Escapist (2002)

Plays

*Mamma (1982) * Kind (1983) * Arrivederci Millwall (1985) *Smallholdings (1986) *The Vinegar Fly (1988) *Near Cricket St Thomas, 1919 (1997) *An Illustrated Talk (2008) *

Moll Flanders ''Moll Flanders'' is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1722. It purports to be the true account of the life of the eponymous Moll, detailing her exploits from birth until old age. By 1721, Defoe had become a recognised novelist, wit ...

(2018)

Television

Rockliffe's Babies ''Rockliffe'' is a British television police procedural drama series, produced by the BBC, which ran for three series between 9 January 1987 and 14 December 1988. ''Rockliffe'' was devised by Richard O'Keeffe, and produced by Leonard Lewis. The ...

(2 episodes) *

Tales of Sherwood Forest Tales may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Tales'' (album), a 1995 album by Marcus Miller * ''Tales'' (film), a 2014 Iranian film * ''Tales'' (TV series), an American television series * ''Tales'' (video game), a 2016 point-and-click adventure ...

(1987) *Clubland (1991) *

Horizon The horizon is the apparent line that separates the surface of a celestial body from its sky when viewed from the perspective of an observer on or near the surface of the relevant body. This line divides all viewing directions based on whether i ...

(1992) **"Hitler's Bomb" episode *

Nuclear Secrets ''Nuclear Secrets'', aka ''Spies, Lies and the Superbomb'', is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series which looks at the race for nuclear supremacy from the Manhattan Project through to Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme. Production The ser ...

(2007) **"Superbomb" episode

Radio

* The Loop (2009) *

Planet B ''Planet B'' is a science fiction drama series first broadcast on BBC Radio 7 on 2 March 2009 as part of BBC Radio's science fiction season between February and March 2009. ''Planet B'' is set in a virtual world called "Planet B" in which peop ...

(2011) **episode "Doing Time" *Referee (2011) *

Jack's Return Home ''Jack's Return Home'' is a 1970 novel by British writer Ted Lewis (writer), Ted Lewis. It was adapted into the 1971 film ''Get Carter'', starring Michael Caine as Jack Carter. The novel portrays a subsection of society living on the borderline ...

(2012) *London Bridge (2013) *

He Died With His Eyes Open ''He Died with His Eyes Open'' (original title: ''On ne meurt que deux fois'') is a 1985 French erotic neo-noir thriller film directed by Jacques Deray. It was based on the 1984 English-language novel ''He Died with His Eyes Open'' by Derek Raymon ...

(2013) *November Dead List - series one (2014) *

The Shootist ''The Shootist'' is a 1976 American Western film directed by Don Siegel and based on Glendon Swarthout's 1975 novel of the same name.Swarthout, Glendon (1975). ''The Shootist'', New York, New York: Doubleday. It is John Wayne's final film ro ...

(2014) *The Transfer (2015) *November Dead List - series two (2016) *

(2016) *

The Confidential Agent ''The Confidential Agent'' (1939) is a thriller novel by British author Graham Greene. Fuelled by Benzedrine, Greene wrote it in six weeks. To avoid distraction, he rented a room in Bloomsbury from a landlady who lived in a flat below him. He use ...

(2016) *Death At The Airport: The Plot Against Kim Jong-nam (with Paul French, 2017) *

The Battle of San Pietro ''The Battle of San Pietro'' is a documentary film directed by John Huston about the Battle of San Pietro Infine, from Naples, during World War II. It was shot by Jules Buck. It was released in the US in 1945 but shown to US troops earlier. ...

(2019) * Journey Into Fear (2019) *

Epitaph For A Spy ''Epitaph for a Spy'' is a 1938 spy novel by Eric Ambler. Plot Josef Vadassy is a Hungarian refugee who is effectively stateless. He was born in Szabadka, then in Hungary, but it became Subotica and part of Yugoslavia following the 1920 Treaty ...

(2019) *Babelsberg Babylon (2020) *London Particular (2020) *Fake Psychic (with Vicky Baker, 2022) *Exit Game (with Alex Millar, 2022)

References

*Discussion of Arrivederci Millwall in ''Political Violence in Drama: Classical Models, Contemporary Variations'' by Mary Karen Dahl. Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1987 () *''Arrivederci Millwall and Smallholdings'' by Nick Perry. Faber and Faber, 1987. ()

External links

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