Work

Writer
Constellations
2012
The Royal Court
Director Michael Longhurst Writer Nick Payne Starring Sally Hawkins & Rafe Spall

Play exploring love and free will through quantum phsyics

If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
2012
Roundabout Theatre, New York
Director Michael Longhurst Writer Nick Payne Starring Annie Funke, Michelle Gomez, Jake Gyllenhaal & Brian F. O'Byrne

American début of Nick's incisive look into an ordinary family

Lay Down Your Cross
2012
Hampstead Theatre
Director Clare Lizzimore Writer Nick Payne Starring Lucy Phelps, Angela Terence, Andy de la Tour & Susan Wooldridge

Play about how bereavement fractures a family

The Same Deep Water As Me
2012
Under Commission at the Donmar theatre
Writer Nick Payne

New commission

66 Books
2011
The Bush Theatre, London
Writer Nick Payne

Fugitive Motel was written as part of The Bush's project designed to open its new theatre

Electra
2011
Gate Theatre, London
Director Carrie Cracknell Writer Nick Payne Starring Natasha Broomfield, Madeleine Potter, Alex Price, Martin Turner & Cath Whitefield

New adaptation of the Greek myth

One Day When We Were Young
2011
Sheffield Theatres/Paines Plough
Director Clare Lizzimore Writer Nick Payne Starring Maia Alexander & Andrew Sheridan

Play about the impact of the Second World War on the lives and loves of two people

Wanderlust
2010
The Royal Court
Director Simon Godwin Writer Nick Payne Starring Sian Brooke, Charles Edwards, Pippa Haywood, Isabella Laughland & Stuart McQuarrie

Nick Payne's Royal Court debut is a comic look at sex and intimacy

If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet
2009
The Bush Theatre
Director Josie Rourke Writer Nick Payne Starring Michael Begley, Pandora Colin, Ailish O'Connor & Rafe Spall

Starlings
2009
Royal Court Writers Festival
Writer Nick Payne

Old Vic 24 Hour Plays
2008
Old Vic
Writer Nick Payne

Switzerland
2008
Hightide Theatre Festival, Suffolk
Writer Nick Payne

Flourless
2006
Soho Theatre
Writer Nick Payne

Writer
How I Learned to Drive
1 x 30' 2012
BBC Radio 4  
Director Sasha Yevtushenko Writer Nick Payne Starring Amaka Okafor, James Lailey, Susie Riddell, Karl Theobald & Al Weaver

Second part of Vital Statistics, about Agent Y who uses his statistical superpowers to intervene in troubled relationships

 
The Day We Caught the Train
1 x 45' Jul 2011
BBC Radio 4  
Producer Sasha Yevtushenko Writer Nick Payne Starring Simon Bubb, Olivia Coleman, Ralph Ineson, Nishi Malde & John Rowe

 
10 Lessons in Love
1 x 45' Apr 2011
BBC Radio 4  
Writer Nick Payne

A short piece as part of a collection of 10 writers different perspectives on love

 
The City is at a Standstill
2011
BBC Radio 4  
Producer Sasha Yevtushenko Writer Nick Payne

 
Writer
Nora
Short
2012
Young Vic for The Space
Director Carrie Cracknell Writer Nick Payne Starring Hattie Morahan

Short film in response to Ibsen's A Doll's House