About
I'm a writer and director. This year Adopt-A-Playwright are 'fostering' my new play WASTELAND and I'm under commission to the National Theatre for NT Connections (2027!). I was selected for The Writers Lab UK & Ireland with my sci-fi feature script BLACK MOSS which I'm now developing among other feature and TV ideas. I recently wrote and directed a short film The Nervous State and am making a film based on my digital residency at the Alan Turing Institute.
As a writer, my plays have previously been commissioned /produced by the Royal Court, Royal Exchange, Crucible, the egg, Unicorn, Theatre of Debate, Resonance FM, BBC Radio 3 & 4, and have won the George Devine award, Time Out theatre award, twice shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Prize and three times for BBC Audio awards. I'm an MGCfutures bursary recipient for Woman From Mars. I’ve written original TV single dramas for new writing strands on ITV/BBC, multiple episodes of ITV series, and pilot scripts for United / Mammoth and World Productions/Skreba Films.
As a director, I’ve made music videos, dance films and several short dramas. During the pandemic I collaborated with NHS healthcare scientists and actors on The Nosocomial Project which won the CSO Partnering Patients and Citizens award from the Chief Scientific Officer of NHS England.
CV below, showreel and trailers on Links page.
FILM
BLACK MOSS Feature screenplay (The Writers Lab UK&Ireland)
MILO 11 Feature screenplay
DEVILS AFTER THE FALL verbatim 'disaster movie' based on newspaper reports of the Industrial Revolution. Developed during Living With Machines digital residency at The Alan Turing Institute.
THE NERVOUS STATE short film (2024)
LA BIOTIQUE Short film. Written by Rahila Gupta, directed by Nicola Baldwin (2021)
NOSOCOMIAL Short film. Written & directed by Nicola Baldwin (2021)
DUCHESS, REVOLT Short film. Written & directed by Nicola Baldwin (2020)
WRITING HERO 6 Short films about writing. Featuring Jonny Wright. Written and directed by Nicola Baldwin for the Royal Literary Fund (2018)
THINGS I COULDN’T TELL YOU Monologues. Theatre of Debate. Directed by Nigel Townsend.
THE DREAM TICKET (BABYISH) Feature screenplay. World productions / Skreba (unproduced) (1995)
OF SHADOWS AND WALLS with Rosemary Butcher Dance, Royal Festival Hall, distributed by LUX.
FALLING UNDER with choreographer Suzanne Scott, screened at LFF, distributed by LUX.
A.B... THE DEVILS AFTER THE FALL Super 8 short drama film, screened at LFF.
Various music and corporate videos eg St.Etienne, Ragged Boys, Philips, the Post Office.
RADIO
THE THWARTING OF BARON BOLLIGREW Audio adaptation of screenplay by Robert Bolt.
Mercury Pictures USA (unproduced).
ONE STORY, MANY VOICES: ALONE BUT TOGETHER / THE SCOTS PINE With Manchester Jewish Museum and Devil's Porridge Museum for Imperial War Museum. Writer/ director (2021)
CAMBERWELL GREEN 2-part crime thriller for BBC Radio 4. Director Celia de Wolff (2021)
EMPTY STAGES: MADISON CHORUS Short drama for BBC Radio 4. Director Celia de Wolff (2021)
ABDICATION: THE CRISIS OF WALLIS SIMPSON BBC Radio 4. Director Celia de Wolff (2016)
EUSTON TO WHITECHAPEL BBC Radio 4. Director Celia de Wolff (2015)
TONY AND ROSE BBC Radio 4. Director Celia de Wolff (2013)
SEVEN SCENES Radio 3, The Wire. Director Celia de Wolff.
HAVE YOUR CAKE Serial, BBC Radio 4 (2008) / Audible (2021) Director Steven Canny.
EDWARD ALLEYN’S DEVIL BBC Radio 4. Director Steven Canny (2006)
CHALKIE COBB BBC Writers Room / Resonance FM. Director Jonny Brown (broadcast live, 2005).
POPPY Q BBC Radio 3 ‘The Wire’. Director Polly Thomas.
FOREIGN LEGION BBC Radio 4. Director Polly Thomas.
TELEVISION
THE LAUNDRESS (Series development / pilot script)
NORTHERN STAR (Series development / pilot script, United /Mammoth)
WHERE THE HEART IS (TV Series) 8 x 60 minutes episodes
NIGHT AND DAY (TV Series) 3 episodes / omnibus commission, Granada / ITV
THE GIFT (single drama) Adaptation of stage play for BBC Learning Zone,
LONDON BRIDGE (TV Series) Two episode commission ITV
CAPITAL LIVES: PROUD (Single drama), Carlton / ITV
THEATRE
Untitled new play (2027) NT Connections, National Theatre.
WASTELAND (2025) supported by Adopt-A-Playwright / MGCfutures.
WOMAN FROM MARS
WE THE YOUNG STRONG
CABARET HAVANA Composer Tarek Merchant; Director Tiffany King; British Youth Music Theatre (2022).
THE NERVOUS STATE (2022) Created in collaboration with Prof. Julie Gottlieb. Montgomery Theatre; Being Human Festival.
MRS X AND ME / WHAT IS AMR? (2021) Devised and directed. Created in collaboration with Prof. Elaine Cloutman-Green. Bloomsbury Theatre; Wellcome Collection; Bloomsbury Festival.
SOCK THE PUPPET / REMEMBER REMEMBER! Nosocomial Project shows for children(2021-2022).
NOSOCOMIAL Co-created with Prof. Elaine Cloutman-Green and NHS Healthcare Scientists.
Camden People's Theatre; Rise of the Resistance festival; various site-specific shows (2018-2020).
HOTEL BASTILLE Director Saskia Marland; Camden People’s Theatre (2014).
ALL SAINTS Director Helen Sheals; Last Refuge (2013); transfer to King’s Head (2013)
CONFETTI Director Sarah Frankcom, Ovalhouse, Chelsea Centre (1992), Helen Sheals, Last Refuge (2012).
23.59 Director Sarah Frankcom; Sheffield Crucible (main stage).
THE RIB CAGE Royal Exchange Theatre (Royal Court commission). Director Gordon Anderson.
THE GIFT / CRACKED, Director Nigel Townsend / Theatre of Debate, both UK tours & Edinburgh Festival.
METROPOLIS Director Steve Marmion, the egg at Theatre Roya, Bath 'Storm on the Lawn'
BEOWULF Director Lisa Spirling, the egg at Theatre Royal, Bath 'Storm on the Lawn'
LEAP OF FAITH Director Lisa Spirling,
THE EYES OF MARIE THERESE (Unicorn theatre commission, unproduced)
& WGGB Audio Committee Co-Chair (2022-25)
Digital residency, The Alan Turing Institute 'Living With Machines' (2023)
Public Engagement coordinator Precision AMR / Creative Director, Rise Of The Resistance (2021)
Hospitalfield resident 2020.
UCL Creative Fellow UCL Urban Laboratory (2019-2021)
Great Ormond Street Hospital visiting writer, funded RLF & NIHR BRC at GOSH
RLF Fellow, including University of Greenwich (2012-2014), Advisory Fellow (2014-2016)
Associate Lecturer (Scriptwriting), Drama Centre London / Central St Martins
Writers Tutor, Royal Court Theatre Young Writers Programme
Workshop tutor: Sheffield Theatres, Leeds Playhouse Youth Theatre, Unilever, Royal Court Writers on Schools, NT Education, Healthcare Science Student Network.
Links
Agent: Rachel Daniels, Berlin Associates racheld@berlinassociates.com
The Nervous State short film (2024) website & WATCH
Nicola Baldwin director's showreel (2022)
The Nosocomial Project website & trailer
LUX Film and Video https://lux.org.uk/artist/nicola-baldwin
Website photos & stills by Nicola Baldwin unless otherwise credited