Nick Payne

Nick Payne (born 1984) is a British playwright and screenwriter. Known for his work on the West End and Broadway stages, as well as on the screen, he has received nominations for a Laurence Olivier Award and a Tony Award. Payne studied at the University of York and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama before graduating from the Royal Court Young Writers' Program. Whilst working at the National Theatre Bookshop, he wrote his first play, If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet, which premiered in 2009. It was followed by Wanderlust in 2010. He made his Broadway debut with Constellations (2015). For his play Elegy (2016), he received a Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Play nomination. Payne returned to Broadway with Sea Wall/A Life (2019) at the Hudson Theatre. He created and wrote the BBC One series Wanderlust(2018) and wrote the screenplay for The Sense of an Ending (2016). He co-wrote the romantic drama The Last Letter From Your Lover (2021). Description above from the Wikipedia article Nick Payne, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

We Live in Time

An up-and-coming chef and a recent divorcée find their lives forever changed when a chance encounter brings them together, in a decade-spanning, deeply moving romance.

Release Date2024-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1318

The Last Letter from Your Lover

A young journalist in London becomes obsessed with a series of letters she discovers that recounts an intense star-crossed love affair from the 1960s.

Release Date2021-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count673

Midwinter Break

Longtime retired couple Stella and Gerry realise that their relationship has reached a crossroads while on holiday in Amsterdam. After so much time and so many memories, long-held promises and deeply concealed wounds threaten to come to light and force them to confront their future.

Release Date2026-02-20

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

Wanderlust

Joy Richards is a therapist trying to find a way to keep the spark with her husband, Alan, after a cycling accident causes her to reassess their relationship. As family, friends, neighbours and clients live their lives, stories of love, lust and forbidden desire emerge.

Release Date2018-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count53

The Sense of an Ending

A man becomes haunted by his past and is presented with a mysterious legacy that causes him to re-think his current situation in life.

Release Date2017-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count223

The Secrets

Series of stand-alone dramas. Each story explores the links, pressures and expectations that draw people together and tear them apart.

Release Date2014-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

The Midnight Library

Nora Seed finds herself in a library between life and death with the chance to experience all the potential lives she could have lived.

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Constellations - Donmar Warehouse

The play follows Roland, a beekeeper, and Marianne, a cosmologist through their romantic relationship. Marianne often waxes poetic about cosmology, quantum mechanics, string theory and the belief that there are multiple universes that pull people's lives in various directions. This is reflected in the play's structure as brief scenes are repeated, often with different outcomes.

Release Date2021-06-08

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Lickerish

John, a lone wolf in his mid twenties who's struggling to make ends meet, crosses paths with a lady name Jewel, who happens to be a Pimp and opens John up to more then just a new profession.

Release Date2026-06-22

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

National Theatre Live: Constellations

A quantum physicist and a beekeeper meet at a barbeque. They hit it off, or perhaps they don't. They go home together, or maybe they go their separate ways. In the multiverse, with every possible future ahead of them, a love of honey could make all the difference. See each of the four casts of Donmar Warehouse's summer 2020 production in this filmed presentation.

Release Date2021-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Nora

Short film inspired by the Young Vic production of A Doll's House.

Release Date2012-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Writers and Lovers

Casey Peabody is an underemployed, aspiring novelist in 1990s Boston whose world is rocked by a recent love affair and her mother's sudden death. Her life becomes more complicated as she then falls for two very different men at the same time.

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Constellations

The story of a couple entangled in string theory and their own relationships. An excursion to the quantum multiverse, where every action of the heroes, every decision they make, exists in all possible variants simultaneously.

Release Date2020-03-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay