Nicole Joseph
Acclaimed Writer & Theatre-Maker
Freelance writer specialising in scriptwriting for theatre and screen, theatre director and dramaturg.
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About Me
My Writing Journey
Nicole Joseph is a Bradford-based Writer & Theatre-Maker, who writes women-led stories interested in the sublime, exploring marginalised characters and places and genre-bending. In 2021, her first play, Blessed Spirits, was selected as a Finborough Theatre ETPEP Award Finalist, Women’s Prize for Playwriting shortlist & BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award longlist. The Royal Exchange Theatre supported her professional development and she completed year-long writing attachments with Tamasha Theatre and the Crucible Theatre where she wrote two new plays, including Butterfly, which was showcased at Tamasha Theatre’s Come Through Festival at Birmingham Hippodrome and Theatro Technis London (2021-22).
Recently, she wrote the Crucible Theatre's Young Company Production, Urgent! A Timely Play and was awarded an Arts Council England DYCP grant to level up her writing craft and career (2024). Nicole recently completed the BBC Voices North programme and a commissioned extract modernised theatre adaptation of Anne Bronte’s The Tenant of Wildfell Hall for the Bronte Parsonage Museum (2025).
Nicole has directed several short plays for Graeae Theatre’s Crips With Chips new writing showcase on Theatre by The Lake and Liverpool Everyman’s mainstages (2023-24). Nicole recently was a Playwright Mentor on the National Theatre’s New Views programme where she mentored young playwrights across Yorkshire and the North, providing inspirational workshops and dramaturgy and was formerly a Dramaturg Mentor on Paines Plough's Tour The Writer with Bradford 2025. She has assistant directed the Royal Shakespeare Company’s First Encounters production of Romeo and Juliet & Twelfth Night (2022-24).
As a Theatre-Maker, Nicole's practice is holistic and spiritual human-centred, while rigorous in exploring theatre in a dynamic and expansive way. She has extensive experience in directing/dramaturgy, facilitation and producing, working with professionals and communities. Nicole directed several short plays for Graeae Theatre’s Crips With Chips new writing showcase presented with Theatre by The Lake and Liverpool Everyman Theatre on their mainstages (2023-24).
She is currently a Dramaturg Mentor on Paines Plough's Tour The Writer programme in partnership with Bradford Producing Hub and Bradford 2025. She was a Creative Associate on the Royal Shakespeare Company’s First Encounters production of Romeo and Juliet and Twelfth Night, where she assisted rehearsals in Stratford-Upon-Avon and directed the young ensembles in schools and associate theatres in the northern region of the tour (2024). Nicole has been trained by the Almeida Theatre, as a JMK Trust Mentored Director, through the Regional Theatre Young Directors Scheme (2021) and worked as a script-reader for Sheffield Theatres (2022).
Recent Projects
Bronte Commissioned Residency
2024 - 2025Nicole worked with the Bronte Society Parsonage Museum to develop a series of work based on her experience as a local writer, around the ideas of home, childhood and women's experiences.
She researched from their rare archives, delivered workshops at the Bronte Festival of Women's Writing on developing children's work ideas and sustaining writing practice, appeared on their podcast ‘Behind the Glass’ sharing a poem inspired by Anne Bronte and is developing an extract of a modern theatre adaptation of Anne’s lesser known but bitingly brilliant The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. Nicole collaborated with Ilkley Playhouse to workshop and showcase the extract.
Urgent! A Timely Play (Sheffield Theatres Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse, 2024)
2024University drop-out and house-sharer Jude drifts through life until one day when he accidentally opens a time portal and finds out death is coming for him. A story about friendship, grief, and time.
Nicole collaborated with Sheffield Theatres Young Company, responding to their wide-ranging ambitions to create this fantasy comedy-drama with exciting psychedelic music and design.
VisitProgressing as a playwright: Arts Council England Creative Practice Grant Award
2023 - 2024Nicole was awarded an Arts Council England Developing Your Creative Practice grant to progress her practice as a playwright to the next level, supported by the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. She was mentored by a leading Dramaturg, an experienced award-winning writer mentor and dramaturg, explored international and fringe theatre and wrote a new ambitious large-cast and scale play, which was workshopped with support of Sheffield Theatres with their Young Company and local actors, directed by a prominent theatre director.
With additional support from Leeds 2023 Expanding Horizons programme, Nicole was able to visit New York, exploring work of scale and received mentoring from Chief Executive Producer of The Shed theatre.
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