Earthquakes in London

Nicky is a freelance director, dramaturg and writer working across stage and screen, with a strong track record in both contemporary new writing and classic adaptations. Alongside her theatre practice, she is increasingly directing for television and developing original scripts and screenplays.

Her directing credits include award-winning revivals such as The Shape of Things,
by Neil LaBute at Park Theatre (finalist, What’s On Stage Award for Best Production Off-West End 2023), David Eldridge’s Market Boy, and Enda Walsh’s The Walworth Farce, which she was invited to direct as the inaugural production for the new Southwark Playhouse Elephant in 2023.

Nicky is also an experienced associate director and facilitator of new-writing R&D. She was Staff Director at the National Theatre on Melly Still’s My Brilliant Friend, Associate Director to Jeremy Herrin on David Ireland’s Ulster American at Riverside Studios, and is currently working with Katy Rudd on the West End transfer of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry for Chris Harper Productions, which is now playing at the Haymarket Theatre.

As a writer, Nicky adapted Henry IV, Henry V and Henry VI into a two-act epic,
Summon Up the Blood, for the RSC Open Stages programme, now available for schools and drama schools. She's currently writing an original television series and will make her short-film directing debut with Sour & Sweet in 2026.

Mike Bartlett is a multi-award-winning writer for both stage and screen.

Theatre includes: Juniper Blood (Donmar Warehouse, 2025); Unicorn (West End, 2025); Scandaltown (Lyric Hammersmith, 2022); The 47th (Old Vic, London, 2022); Mrs Delgado (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2021); Snowflake (Old Fire Station, Oxford, 2018); Albion (Almeida Theatre, London, 2017); Wild (Hampstead Theatre, 2016); Game (Almeida, 2015); King Charles III (Almeida Theatre and West End, 2014); An Intervention (Paines Plough/Watford, 2014); Bull (Sheffield Theatres, 2013); Medea (Headlong, 2012); Chariots of Fire (Hampstead Theatre, 2012); 13 (National Theatre, London, 2011); Decade (Headlong, 2011); Earthquakes in London (Headlong & National Theatre, 2010); Love, Love, Love (Paines Plough & Plymouth Theatre Royal, 2010); Cock (Royal Court, 2009; West End, 2022); Contractions (Royal Court Theatre, London, 2008); Artefacts (Bush Theatre & Nabokov, 2008); and My Child (Royal Court, 2007).

Television includes: Life, Doctor Foster, King Charles III, Sticks and Stones, Trauma and Press. 

Contains themes of abortion, death, alcohol abuse, drug use, internalised ableism, parental death, racist tropes, sexual extortion and suicide. Depiction of attempted suicide by jumping off a bridge and use of explicit language. 

This play depicts environmental disaster caused by climate change.

This is an amateur production presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books. 

LAMDA is a two-minute walk from Barons Court Station or a ten-minute walk from either West Kensington or Hammersmith Station. 

Please note: Our nearest station, Barons Court, is undergoing refurbishment works throughout 2026. Find out more.