Nigel Gearing

Agent:  Conrad Williams

Biography: Nigel Gearing is a dramatist and translator whose  work has been produced in the UK, the USA and Europe. This work includes collaboration on award-winning films, translations of plays both classic and modern (French into English, English into French) and theatre pieces which have been staged in London, Edinburgh,  Paris, Copenhagen and America.  He is the author of numerous plays for BBC Radio and television pieces for Channel Four. He is published by Oberon Books and Methuen and  lives in London. 

Theatre:

  • SNAP (Foco Novo/New End)
  • THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Derby Playhouse)
  • HIGH WIRE (Husets Theatre, Denmark)
  • BERLIN DAYS HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS (Paines Plough/The Place)
  • DICKENS IN AMERICA (Bristol Old Vic)
  • EMBOUTEILLAGE (Theatre de la Ville, Paris)
  • BLUE HEART AFTERNOON (Hampstead Theatre)

Theatre adaptations and translations:

  • Moliere's DON JUAN (ATC)
  • Orwell's DOWN AND OUT IN PARIS AND LONDON (Paines Plough)
  • Diaz's MY SONG IS FREE (Monstrous Regiment)
  • Azama's CROSS FIRE (Paines Plough)
  • Anne's AGNES (Royal Court)
  • Alain-Fournier's LE GRAND MEAULNES (Quantum Theatre, Pittsburgh)
  • Pommerat's THIS CHILD (Company Of Angels/Southwark Playhouse)
  • French adaptations of Marlowe's EDWARD II, Webster's THE DUCHESS OF MALFI (Le Festin/ French national tour and Théâtre Malakoff, Paris)

For BBC Radio:

  • GRIDLOCK
  • THE DISTINGUISHED THING
  • SAFE HEAVENS
  • FALLING THROUGH ITALY

BBC Radio dramatisations:

  • Klima's A SUMMER AFFAIR
  • Wells' TONO BUNGAY
  • Sartre's ROADS TO FREEDOM
  • Rhys' PIONEERS O PIONEERS
  • Bowen's THE LAST SEPTEMBER

TV films (Channel 4):

  • ELGAR'S TENTH MUSE
  • JANIS IN THE CHELSEA
  • INMAN

Feature films:

  • Desplechin's ESTHER KAHN
  • Bennett's ASCENDANCY (won Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival)
  • Chéreau's INTIMACY (English adaptation, won Best Film at the Berlin Film Festival)

Publications:

  • DICKENS IN AMERICA (Oberon Books)
  • JANIS IN THE CHELSEA/ELGAR'S TENTH MUSE/MEETING MR WILDE (Oberon Books)
  • CROSSFIRE (Oberon Books)
  • AGNES (Methuen Plays)
  • ESTHER KAHN (Cahiers du Cinema, Paris)
  • IN YOUR OWN KINGDOM SIR (Michigan Quarterly Review)
  • WHAT BECAME OF WARING? (Michigan Quarterly Review)
  • BLUEHEART AFTERNOON (Oberon Books)