Nick Blakeley

For the National:

Underdog: The Other Other Brontë

Training

Nick Blakeley studied Drama and English at the University of Bristol and trained at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.

Theatre

For the National Theatre: Underdog: The Other Other Brontë (also Northern Stage), Damned by Despair, 13 and A Woman Killed with Kindness

In London’s West End: The Sunshine Boys at the Savoy

Other theatre includes: The Cold Buffet and Petrification (also Northern Stage) for Live Theatre; The Good Person Szechwan for Sheffield Crucible, ETT and the Lyric, Hammersmith; The White Card at Northern Stage, Soho Theatre and on tour; Dead Dads Club at Camden People’s Theatre; The Spider’s Web at Riverside Studios; Twelfth Night and And Other Stories at the Orange Tree; Brideshead Revisited at Theatre Royal York and on tour; Hapgood at Hampstead; I Heart Catherine Pistachio for Soho Theatre, Hackney Yard and Paines Plough; Comment is Free at the Old Vic; The Last of the De Mullins at Jermyn Street; Hard Feelings at Finborough; and Happy Never After at Edinburgh Pleasance

Father Brown, Belgravia, Summer of Rockets, Theresa vs Boris, Guiltology, Scams and Doctors

Film

One Life, Northern Comfort, Goodbye Christopher Robin and Eyes & Prize

(Published March 2024. Photo: Harry Livingstone)