Joanna Nicks

My
work

Produced plays, awards and press

  • Two women on a sofa in And It Rains, one holding the other’s face to comfort her, against a wall of pinned pictures.
  • A woman in a blue top and white shorts laughing, hands to her face, on a pink-lit stage in Fresh Meat.
  • And It Rains flyer: a pink and orange sky over the title, Salford Arts Theatre, 8th to 11th November, written by Joanna Nicks.
  • A performer in a red slip dress dancing centre stage in Fresh Meat under pink lighting, two women watching from the side.
  • Two women in And It Rains sitting back to back on a low stool, warmly lit, with fairy lights and pinned pages behind them.
  • Vignettes poster: an evening of six short plays by female playwrights at Hope Mill Theatre, including work by Joanna Nicks.
  • Two performers on a pink-lit stage in Fresh Meat, one seated and laughing, the other dancing with both arms raised.
  • Close-up of a woman in a pink t-shirt mid-scene in And It Rains, caught between laughing and crying.

And It Rains

Full-length play: Salford Arts Theatre

Winner, Shelagh Delaney New Writing Award

A surprisingly hopeful story of millennial women navigating the collision of world events and personal crises, about connection, friendship, and the noise of the modern world.

Longlisted for the Bruntwood Prize 2019, the Sky Studios & Box of Tricks Screen/Play Award and the Theatre503 International Playwriting Award.

A realistic and punchy picture of life in our times. Seeing Liv and Nadz’s inner feelings and tensions slowly emerge was akin to the peeling of an onion. Peeling an onion brings tears, but there was hope as well. Number 9
A sensitive and perceptive study of emotionally damaged or politically disenchanted personalities. British Theatre Guide

Fresh Meat

Short play: Hope Mill Theatre

Commissioned by HER Productions for Vignettes, an evening of six short plays. Currently being adapted into a 30-minute drama-comedy pilot, placed in the top 12% of the BBC Writersroom Open Call 2022.

A sharp, fun story of empowerment packed with some punchy dialogue. Opening Night
Avoids all the cosy clichés upon which we rely. Tightly written with a very satisfying ending. British Theatre Guide

We, The Undersigned

Short play: DINA, Sheffield

Part of Next Left’s evening of short plays.

What a lovely two-hander. My mum

Adelaide Road

Poetry: Royal Shakespeare Company

Poem included in the RSC’s interactive promenade performance Adelaide Road, directed by Ola Animashawun.

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