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Dateline: 25th November, 2009

Scene from "The Present" at the Cock Tavern

Writer in Residence at the Cock Tavern

The Cock Tavern Theatre in Kilburn has appointed Nick Ward as its first Playwright in Residence.

Nick Ward made a major impact on the London fringe in the late eighties. He won the George Devine Award for Apart From George and worked extensively at the National Theatre Studio alongside Peter Gill. His return to theatre is, says the thetare's artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher "of key importance and we are honoured and thrilled to welcome him to the creative team."

The theatre first worked with Nick Ward in August this year on the first UK revival of The Present since it premiered at the Bush. The revival was produced by resident theatre company Good Night Out Presents and directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, a production Mark Shenton described as "an electrifying rediscovery" in his speech at the Peter Brook Empty Space Awards. The revival of The Present followed the equally successful revival of Apart From George two months earlier at the Finborough.

Future projects with Nick Ward include:

• His translation of Strinberg's Ghost Sonata, first performed at the National Theatre Studio in 1986 and feared lost until it was recovered by Adam Spreadbury-Maher in the archives at the National Theatre this month
• The Nick Ward Retrospective Season at Riverside Studios in autumn 2010
• Workshop presentations of his new musical Dirt Music

Nick Ward was born in Geelong, Australia, in 1962. His first plays as writer/director won three Fringe First Awards at the Edinburgh Festival. He won the George Devine Award in 1988 for Apart From George (National Theatre, Edinburgh Festival, Royal Court, a national tour and New York). He subsequently wrote The Strangeness of Others (National Theatre), Trouble Sleeping (National Theatre Studio and Warehouse Theatre Croydon), Splendid Isolation (National Theatre Studio), an adaptation of The Decameron (National Theatre Studio), Eastwood (Man In The Moon Theatre -Time Out Award, 1986), The Cenci (commissioned by Almeida Opera) and a translation of A Doll's House (Leicester Haymarket). His radio work includes Trouble Sleeping with Jim Broadbent and Patricia Routledge (BBC Radio 3). He has also written and directed two films, Dakota Road (Channel 4) and Look Me in the Eye (BBC).

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