SCREENWRITER | PLAYWRIGHT | WORKSHOP LEADER
Nathan Lucky Wood is a playwright and screenwriter based in London, UK. Lucky is literally his middle name.
He was part of the Channel 4 Screenwriting cohort for 2024, the London Library Emerging Writers Scheme in 2021, and is a former member of the Soho Theatre Playwriting Lab. He was nominated for the Verity Bargate Prize in 2020.
For theatre, Nathan’s plays include The Levellers, Alcatraz, A Haunting, Ham, and Dirt, as well as a multitude of short plays. His work has been performed at the Bush Theatre, the Belgrade Theatre Coventry, The King’s Head, Theatre503, and the now sadly-defunct Vault Festival.
His play Alcatraz is published by Nick Hern Books as part of Plays From Vault 5.
His TV comedy spec Toothbrushes is in development with Bonafide Films, and he has other TV and screen projects in various stages of development.
He writes across comedy and drama. Frequent interests include: homelessness, night time, male bisexuality, sex, father figures, mother figures, the apocalypse, tents, holes in the ground, the reanimated dead, horror and science fiction, explosions of long-repressed emotion, the limits of kindness, and doomed attempts to do the right thing. Each time he writes he thinks he has a completely new idea, but it usually ends up being about a child trying to put a family back together. Genre-agnostic / tone-specific.
Teaching & Workshops
As well as his own writing, Nathan has taught creative writing and youth theatre at Derby Theatre, New Horizon Youth Centre, Tramshed and at HMP Belmarsh. He is an Associate Fellow of the Institute Of Higher Education.
He has also worked as a freelance script reader and script consultant, supporting writers at all stages of development. If you would like to enquire about these services, please get in touch via email.
Contact
Any work-related queries can go to Nathan’s wonderful agents at Casarotto Ramsay & Associates: Mark Casarotto, Kara Fitzpatrick, and their formidable assistant Libby Gervais. You can also get in touch directly via email.
You can also subscribe to his newsletter, Lucky Days, to find out what he’s thinking currently or what he’s up to.