{{short description|British playwright and screenwriter}} {{Other people|Nick Perry|Nick Perry (disambiguation)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
'''Nick Perry''' is a British playwright and screenwriter. He is a graduate of the [[University of Hull]] and the [[National Film and Television School]]. His first play ''Arrivederci Millwall'' was produced by The Combination at The Albany Empire, Deptford in 1985 and jointly won the [[Samuel Beckett Award]]. ''Smallholdings'' was first performed at the [[King's Head Theatre]] in 1986 and ''The Vinegar Fly'' at the [[Soho Theatre#Soho Poly period|Soho Poly]] in 1988. ''Near Cricket St Thomas, 1919'' was directed by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] at the [[Stephen Joseph Theatre]], Scarborough in 1997. ''An Illustrated Talk'' was performed at the [[New Theatre (Newtown)|New Theatre]], Sydney as part of the 2008 [[Short and Sweet (festival)|Short and Sweet]] festival.
Perry's first radio play ''[[Toby Swift#The Loop|The Loop]]'' was broadcast on [[BBC Radio 4]] in November 2009 and won a [[Sony Radio Academy Awards|Sony Radio Academy]] bronze award.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?awid=215&awname=Best+Drama&year=2010 |title=Sony Radio Academy Awards {{!}} 2010 {{!}} Best Drama<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2010-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100413215621/http://www.radioawards.org/winners/?awid=215&awname=Best+Drama&year=2010 |archive-date=2010-04-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Andrew Scott (actor)|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''.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fradio%2F2012%2F01%2Fthe_winners_of_the_first_bbc_a.html The winners of the first BBC Audio Drama Awards]</ref><ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2h5vd2mcWjMYM4PKvBFRpPT/2012-winners The winners of the first BBC Audio Drama Awards]</ref> In 2022, ''London Particular'' was shortlisted for the Best Original Series or Serial award.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/21prGhRZnBc5dmHtwWYJCWx/audio-drama-awards-2022-the-finalists BBC Audio Drama Awards 2022 The Finalists]</ref>
==Filmography== *[[Arrivederci Millwall]] (1990) *[[Tube Tales]] (1999) **segment "Steal Away" *[[The Escapist (2002 film)|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]] (2018)
==Television== *[[Rockliffe's Babies]] (2 episodes) *[[Tales of Sherwood Forest]] (1987) *Clubland (1991) *[[Horizon (British TV series)|Horizon]] (1992) **"Hitler's Bomb" episode *[[Nuclear Secrets]] (2007) **"Superbomb" episode
==Radio== *[[Toby Swift#The Loop|The Loop]] (2009) *[[Planet B]] (2011) **episode "Doing Time" *Referee (2011) *[[Jack's Return Home]] (2012) *London Bridge (2013) *[[Derek Raymond#Black novels|He Died With His Eyes Open]] (2013) *November Dead List - series one (2014) *[[Glendon Swarthout|The Shootist]] (2014) *The Transfer (2015) *November Dead List - series two (2016) *[[Moll Flanders]] (2016) *[[The Confidential Agent]] (2016) *Death At The Airport: The Plot Against Kim Jong-nam (with [[Paul French (author)|Paul French]], 2017) *[[The Battle of San Pietro]] (2019) *[[Journey into Fear (novel)|Journey Into Fear]] (2019) *[[Eric Ambler|Epitaph For A Spy]] (2019) *Babelsberg Babylon (2020) *London Particular - series 1 (2020) *Fake Psychic (with Vicky Baker, 2022) *Exit Game (with Alex Millar, 2022) *London Particular - series 2 (2023) *[[Borodin Quartet|Stormy Applause]] (2025)
==References== {{reflist}} *''Arrivederci Millwall and Smallholdings'' by Nick Perry. Faber and Faber, 1987. ({{ISBN|978-0571147748}})
==External links== *{{IMDb name|0675234}} *[http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsP/perry-nick.html doollee.com page]
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