NICK STIMSON is a writer and theatre director. He has written over forty plays, musicals and large-scale community productions.
His musicals include: ‘Korczak’ (with the composer Chris Williams, for the Theatre Royal Plymouth); ‘A Winter’s Tale’ (with the composer Howard Goodall, for The Sage, Gateshead); & ‘NHS The Musical’ with the composer Jimmy Jewell, for the Theatre Royal Plymouth) ‘Korczak’ won a major UNESCO award and the prestigious Jan Kiepura Award for Poland’s Best Musical-Theatre Production. ‘A Winter’s Tale’ won the Offie for The Best Off West End Musical. He is also the recipient of a Vivian Ellis Prize for musical-theatre.
Plays include ‘Promised Land’ (written with Anthony Clavane, for Red Ladder Theatre, Leeds); and ‘Sailors and Sweethearts’ (a play about the artist Beryl Cook, for the Theatre Royal Plymouth). Large-scale community productions include: ‘Union Street’ (for the Theatre Royal Plymouth), ‘The Cornish Phoenix’ (for Sterts Theatre Cornwall), ‘Matthew Miller’ and ‘The Day We Played Brazil (for the Northcott Theatre, Exeter) and ‘Hello Mister Capello’ (for the Palace Theatre, Watford).
Musicals written with Annemarie Lewis Thomas for the Musical Theatre Academy include: ‘Just The Ticket’, ‘Dangerous Daughters’ & ‘Oh My, Nellie Bly’.  Publications include three collections of poetry: In Magnet Air (Phoenix-Springwood); Flying Pigs (Enitharmon) and ‘Histories’ (Priapus Press). Published musicals include: ‘Dangerous Daughters’ and ‘Oh My, Nellie Bly’ (Concord Theatricals) and ‘A Winter’s Tale’ (Faber Music).
For several years he was an Associate Director of the Theatre Royal Plymouth, and for three years he was Artistic Director of the UK’s National Student Drama Festival. He is currently writing ‘A Secret Never To BE Told,’ a tragicomic novel about an ENSA concert party preparing to go on tour during the closing days of the Second World War.
