Ron Nicol

Ron Nicol is an award-winning playwright published in the UK, the USA, and in the Netherlands in Dutch. There have been over 500 productions of his plays and pantomimes, with performances in Britain, Ireland, America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Holland, Germany, Spain, Luxembourg and Hong Kong. Productions of his one-act plays have won many awards at festivals in the UK, Ireland, the USA and Canada.

Ron became a member of the Lyric Players while he was a student at Queen's University Belfast, going on to spend several years in professional theatre. He worked in repertory, pantomime, music hall, variety and with touring productions as an actor, stage manager and stage director at Perth Theatre, Lincoln Theatre Royal, Harrogate Theatre and York Theatre Royal, and as production manager with John Ridley Projects at Chelmsford Civic Theatre.

Now based in Fife, Scotland, he has trained radio broadcasters at Glenrothes College, lectured in theatre with the University of St Andrews Adult Education Department, produced and presented a weekly programme on Radio Tay's Campus Radio, and was an adviser for the Scottish Community Drama Association. A member of the Guild of Drama Adjudicators, he's been adjudicating drama festivals since 1995.

Ron has a BA from Queen's University, Belfast, a post-graduate teaching qualification from Moray House College of Education, Edinburgh and is a Licentiate of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London.

In 1978 he co-founded Glenrothes Theatre Company with his wife Norma, a former professional actress, and writes and directs most of their productions.

Writer's Website

•  www.ronnicolplays.co.uk

Titles We Represent

• A Bird In The Bush (One Act, Comedy)
• Accident Of Circumstance (One Act, Drama)
• Beggar Your Neighbour (One Act, Comedy)
• Best Of Enemies (One Act, Youth Drama)
• Chairs (One Act, Comedy)
• Childe Rowland (Full Length, Youth Fantasy)
• Cinderella (Pantomime)
• Flushed (One Act, Comedy)
• Flushed Again (One Act, Comedy)
  
• Friends And Neighbours (One Act, Youth Drama)
• Going Home (One Act, Drama)
• Molly Whuppie (Full Length, Youth Fantasy)
• Molly Whuppie and the Double-Faced Ogre (One Act, Youth Fantasy)
• Murder At The Cathedral (One Act, Comedy)
• Nearly All At Sea (One Act, Comedy)
• Nearly Pulls It Off (One Act, Comedy)
• Nearly Up A Gum Tree (One Act, Comedy)
• Nearly Up The Pole (One Act, Comedy)
• Pig Tale (One Act, Comedy)
• Scoundrels And Stratagems (One Act, Comedy)
• Sisters And Their Secrets (One Act, Drama)
• Splits In The Skin (Full Length, Drama)
• The Edge (One Act, Youth Drama)
• The Man Who Collected Women (A Sherlock Holmes One Act, Drama)
• The Mazarin Stone (A Sherlock Holmes One Act, Drama)
• The Spiriting of Burd Ellen (One Act, Youth Fantasy)
• Thicker Than Water (One Act, Black Comedy)
• Three's A Crowd (One Act, Comedy)
• Too Many Brides For Dracula (One Act, Comedy)
• Two Bodies And A Bottle Of Sauce (One Act, Comedy)
• Waiting For The Whale (One Act, Drama)
• Wolf Tale (One Act, Comedy)