He has been twice nominated for BAFTA awards and his first novel, Starter for Ten was featured on the first Richard and Judy Book Club. Simpatico was turned into a feature film in 1999, and this allowed David to start writing full-time. He also wrote his first original script, a situation comedy about frustrated waiters, Waiting, which was later optioned by the BBC.
This led to script-editing jobs at London Weekend Television and Tiger Aspect Productions.ĭuring this period, he began to write, developing an adaptation of Sam Shepard’s stage-play Simpatico with the director Matthew Warchus, an old friend from University. He worked sporadically as an actor for the next eight years, eventually earning a three year stint at the Royal National Theatre, followed by a job at BBC Radio Drama as a script reader/researcher. A student of Toynbee Comprehensive school and Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, he Graduated from the University of Bristol having studied English Literature and Drama.Īfter graduation, he won a scholarship to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, before returning to London in 1991 and finally earning an Equity card. David Nicholls is a British author, screenwriter, and actor.
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