
He has been twice nominated for BAFTA awards and his first novel, Starter for Ten was featured on the first Richard and Judy Book Club. Simpatico was turned into a feature film in 1999, and this allowed David to start writing full-time. He also wrote his first original script, a situation comedy about frustrated waiters, Waiting, which was later optioned by the BBC. This led to script-editing jobs at London Weekend Television and Tiger Aspect Productions.ĭuring this period, he began to write, developing an adaptation of Sam Shepard’s stage-play Simpatico with the director Matthew Warchus, an old friend from University. He worked sporadically as an actor for the next eight years, eventually earning a three year stint at the Royal National Theatre, followed by a job at BBC Radio Drama as a script reader/researcher.


A student of Toynbee Comprehensive school and Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, he Graduated from the University of Bristol having studied English Literature and Drama.Īfter graduation, he won a scholarship to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, before returning to London in 1991 and finally earning an Equity card. Urn:isbn:0340994681 Republisher_date 20120217020316 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120216182622 Scanner Nicholls is a British author, screenwriter, and actor. OL15424701W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 95.58 Pages 454 Pdf_module_version 0.0.17 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:9866076121 Urn:lcp:onedayvintagecon00davi:epub:9c04d660-b583-4bbe-8c42-c73ed8c55685 Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier onedayvintagecon00davi Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6834vw7v Isbn 9780307474711Ġ307474712 Lccn 2010280440 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Openlibrary OL24084020M Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 15:10:21 Boxid IA170501 Boxid_2 CH101101 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
