“If you made the shortlist you are rubbing shoulders with some of the best and most performed ten-minute playwrights in the world including Nicky Denovan, Cerise de Gelder, Ken Levine, Mark Harvey Levine, Tom Coash, Pete Malicki, Rich Rubin, Rich Orloff, Joe Bergin and Greg Gould so count yourself in very good company!”
About
Nicky Denovan is a UK playwright and screenwriter. Her work has been performed in theatre and comedy festivals across the world - from New York to New Zealand, Sydney to South India.
Nicky topped the British Animation Film Festival’s Lottie Reiniger List for scripts of outstanding achievement, winning Best Screenplay. She is a previous overall winner of Pint-Sized Plays and Short+Sweet Theatre, a winner of the TakeTen Chesil Theatre New Writing Festival, and a finalist in festivals including the Snowdance® 10-Minute Comedy Festival, INK Festival, Short+Sweet Theatre Sydney and Short+Sweet Theatre Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Further playwriting accolades include being shortlisted for the British Theatre Challenge and longlisted for the Kenneth Branagh Award for New Drama Writing. For screenwriting, she was named Quarterfinalist in both the ScreenCraft Animation Screenplay Competition and ScreenCraft Stage Play Contest, chosen as a Semi-Finalist for the 27th Annual Fade In Awards Sci-Fi, selected as Finalist in the Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards, and awarded Best Script in the Animotion Film Festival.
Nicky’s work has featured on BBC radio, Coverfly’s industry RED LIST, and in the books Pint-Sized Plays Volume 5, Best Ten Minute Plays of 2019 (published in the US by Smith & Kraus), and Stage It! Volume 6.
