The American premiere of Constellations opened on Broadway in January 2015 at Manhattan Theatre Club's Samuel J. The play stars Charlie Cox, Heather Lind, Morgan Spector, and Geneva Carr and is directed by Doug Hughes. Sloan Foundation at New York's City Center in 2016. Incognito was produced Off-Broadway (in New York) by the Manhattan Theatre Club with support from the Alfred P. It returned to Live Theatre in May and then had a sell-out run at The Bush Theatre, London. Incognito was a co-production between Live Theatre, nabokov, HighTide Festival Theatre and in association with The North Wall in spring 2014, which previewed at Live Theatre in April 2014, before going to HighTide Festival and The North Wall, Oxford. In 2014, two episodes of The Secrets which were written by Payne were broadcast on BBC One. In January 2014 Blurred Lines, a piece he devised with the director Carrie Cracknell, opened at the National Theatre's Shed. In August 2013 his play The Same Deep Water As Me opened at the Donmar Warehouse, with a cast including Nigel Lindsay, Daniel Mays and Marc Wootton. In January 2013 Payne revealed that a film adaptation was under way. That month it won the Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best Play. It transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in November 2012. It is playful, intelligent and bursting with ideas, but also achieves a powerful undertow of emotion" while Paul Taylor in the Independent wrote that "one would be hard put to begin to do justice to the dazzling way it creates it own rules, while at the same time being wise enough not to jettison the old rule book either". It was extremely well received, with Charles Spencer in the Daily Telegraph commenting that "Nick Payne's drama lasts just over an hour but packs in more than most shows manage in three times that length. Directed by Michael Longhurst and starring Rafe Spall and Sally Hawkins, it explores love, friendship and the notion of free will against the backdrop of quantum physics. He took part in the Bush Theatre's 2011 project Sixty Six Books, for which he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.Ĭonstellations opened at Royal Court Theatre on 13 January 2012. In November, Payne was shortlisted for the Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award, but lost out to Anya Reiss. Payne's second play Wanderlust opened in September 2010, directed by Simon Godwin, at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs and also garnered excellent reviews. In September 2012 it was staged at New York's Laura Pels Theatre, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. His first play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet opened at the Bush Theatre in October 2009 and received a positive response from critics at the Evening Standard and the Financial Times. In 2008 Payne worked at the bookshop of the National Theatre. He is also a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writer's Program. Payne studied at the University of York and subsequently at the Central School of Speech and Drama. Nick Payne (born 1984) is a British playwright and screenwriter.
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