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 nicholas wright
nicholas wright -lrb- playwright -rrb-

nicholas verney wright -lrb- 1940 , cape town , south africa -rrb- is a british dramatist .
he was born in cape town , attended rondebosch boys ' school and from the age of six was a child actor on radio and on the stage .
he came to london in 1958 to train as an actor at the london academy of music and dramatic art -lrb- lamda -rrb- and subsequently worked as a floor-assistant in bbc television and as a runner in film , notably john schlesinger 's `` far from the madding crowd . ''
he started work at the royal court in 1965 as casting director and became , first , an assistant director there and then the first director of the royal court 's theatre upstairs , where for several years he presented an innovatory programme of new writing .
from 1975 - 1977 he was joint artistic director of the royal court and he was subsequently a member of the royal court theatre 's board .
he is former literary manager and associate director of the royal national theatre , and a former member of the national theatre board .
in 2015 and 2016 he will be the judge of the yale drama series competition for playwrights .
his publications include `` 99 plays '' , a survey of drama from aeschylus to the present day , and `` changing stages '' , co-written with richard eyre .
