Stuff done

ABOVE; The cast and crew of 'Our Day Out'.  Nick has a number of newprojects he wants to get off the ground.

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Nick Hennegan formed the award-winning not-for-profit charity, The Maverick Theatre Company. in 1994.

Nick has an M.A. in Creative Producing for Theatre and Live performance from Birkbeck College, University of London.  He was nominated for both Millennium National Creative Briton and Midlander of the Year and has won a Sony Radio Award.  He has successfully produced shows on both the large and small scale, fringe, UK and international touring circuit and won numerous awards, most recently the Society of London Theatre's Stage One Bursary Scheme for New Producers, 2013 and 2014.

He presents a weekly radio show, Literary London on Resonance 104.4FM.  Listen to the shows on BohemianBritain.com and  the London Literary Pub Crawl website.

Nick Hennegan – Personal production (and other bits) Credits 

Wrote, directed and produced… 

Henry V - Lion of England  - Play - 1 person adaptation of Shakespeare’s Henry V.  Edinburgh Festival, Old Rep., Rep, Birmingham, small-scale UK and Ireland tour. (Won – and lost - Fringe First 1992)

Hamlet - Horatio's Tale. - Play -7-person adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.  The Theatre, mac. (With Sir Derek Jacobi) Later modified for one actor.

Boy, Girl, Boy, Bike – short film, created for Carlton’s First Cuts. Edinburgh Film Festival NBX    

PALS – partially devised play. Billesley Pub and small-scale tour.  And EDINBURGH 2019!

The Birth of Frankenstein (from an idea by Robert Lloyd George) EDINBURGH FRINGE 2023.



Wrote and Directed… 
Henry V - Lion of England
  - Play - 1 person adaptation of Henry V.  Waterside Stratford upon Avon (season), Kentucky, USA and national UK and Ireland tour.  Music by Robb Williams.

A Christmas Carol with Guy Masterson, music by Robb Williams  - UK and International Tour.  

Hamlet - Horatio's Tale -  Play - 1 person and the voice of Sir Derek Jacobi. Music by Robb Williams - Edinburgh Festival 2018 and tour.

Romeo and Juliet.  Four actors and a feisty Juliet bring football fever to a classic tragedy.

The Birth of Frankenstein  - with 'Robert Lloyd George. The story of how a teenage woman wrote a classic. Edinburgh Festival 2023


Just Wrote… 

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol -
The Wheatsheaf, London W1, 2014.  The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham 2015.

A Ghost of A Chance 
– Billesley Pub and Edinburgh Festival – directed by John Adams. (Winner of The Guinness Award for Pub Theatre through the Royal National Theatre)  

Henry The Second 
(working title) Play.  Rehearsed readings at 52nd Street Theatre, New York, USA.  Directed by Chris Hayes.  

How To Make A Crises Out Of A Drama – book – production diary for A Ghost of A Chance  

Susan And Friends 
– Radio Documentary. Won Sony Award for Best Community Programme.  

Images From Within – Radio Documentary. Network Broadcast.  

The Pocket Guide To Rock – 26 x 1 hour music documentaries – Chrysalis Radio.  

Bits of Bad Poetry, Ghostwriter, Social Media writer, assorted essays, column in Irish Newspaper and numerous theatre reviews for local papers and websites.    


Just Directed… 


Educating Rita 
by Willy Russell.   Billesley and West Mids. Tour  

Trench Kiss
by Arthur Smith.   Billesley and West Mids. Tour.  

Shirley Valentine 
by Willy Russell.  Birmingham Library Theatre

Henry V by Williams Shakespeare.  Birmingham Library Theatre

Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell by Keith Waterhouse.  Billesley

Winston and David by Robert Lloyd George. Edinburgh Festival 2022.

Produced… 

An Evening With Gary Lineker 
by Arthur Smith & Chris England The Billesley: The Elms, Aldridge Tameside Hippodrome, Manchester The Wyvern Theatre, Swindon

Air Play - a search for new radio dramas.

Trench Kiss by Arthur Smith The Billesley

Frankie and Johnny by Terence McNally.   The Billesley and tour

Death at the Done Inn by Tom Nolan.      The Billesley and tour

Road  
by Jim Cartwright.  The Billesley and tour

Blood Brothers by Willy Russell (production bought in)

Henry V - Lion of England 
by Nick Hennegan. Waterside Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon. (Co-production with Almost Perfect Productions Limited and the Birmingham Stage Company)

Youth Theatre Workshop 
at the Billesley.

Strippers by Peter Terson.    The Billesley

Henry V Lion of England 
by Nick Hennegan.  Birmingham Old Rep.

Sexual Perversity in Chicago
by David Mamet The Billesley

Play it Again Sam
by Woody Allen The Billesley (PART OF THE B'HAM INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL)

2nd Youth Theatre Workshop
at the Billesley.

All At The Billesley Pub Theatre…
Up ‘n’ Under 
by John Godber
Up ‘n’ Under 2 by John Godber
Educating Rita 
by Willy Russell
RADA 
Youth Workshop
The Killing Of Sister George 
by Frank Marcus
Our Day Out 
by Willy Russell
Elsie and Norm’s Macbeth by John Christopher Wood
Beautiful Thing 
by Jonathon Harvey

Love Hurts 
– a series of 3 plays run over a 6-week period
The Wild Party – Directed by Julia Smith
PALS 
– Directed by Julia Smith
Beautiful Thing – Directed by Danni Parr

Shakers Re-stirred 
by John Godber

Hancock’s Finest Hour 
by Colin Bennett. National mid/large scale tour.

Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas.  The Wheatsheaf, London W1.

A Christmas Carol. The Wheatsheaf, London W1 and the OJS Theatre, Birmingham.

Directed and produced Winston and David, Edinburgh Fringe 2022.


Commercial Productions...  

New car launches for Renault Birmingham.

National store opening tours for Currys Superstore (Saatchi and Saatchi through DSG Group)

Host – Birmingham Rotary Festival

Birthright Trust – Hyde Park, London.

Numerous Roadshows for BRMB Radio and BBC Radio WM and conferences at Birmingham N.E.C.


The Edinburgh Fringe.

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