Nick Read
Actor / Writer / Performer
Acting
Nick is creator, writer and performer with comedy collective Zazu currently in development for television and radio. He has just returned from a sell out run with the Pleasance at Edinburgh Fringe 2015 which was very well received by audiences and critics alike.
Nick also directed a sell out run for Guinness world record holding topical sketch show NewsRevue earlier in the year as well as starring in a number of high profile commercial campaigns. He appears in the film Scarlett Says currently touring the festival circuit, sister film to the critically acclaimed 82 in which he also stars.
Nick has also appeared in new plays for Southwark Playhouse and Hampstead Theatre.
Television
| Production | Character | Director | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
Victoria | Mr Snowden | Mammoth Screen | |
Humans (Series 2) | Plant Worker | Lewis Arnold | AMC/C4/Kudos |
RED DWARF XII | Incense | Doug Naylor | Baby Cow Productions |
Dom n don | Don | James Webber | Springhead Film Company |
Film
| Production | Character | Director | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
Scarlett says | Policeman | Saskia Mullins (Producer) | Turn the Slate Productions |
At home with mother spittlecheeks | Spare | Chris Wickett | zazU Comedy |
Dragon Accounting | Simon | Katharine Armitage | zazU Comedy |
Liberal Club | Jeremy | Sean Richard | |
At home with the spittlecheeks | Mr Spittlecheeks | Katharine Armitage | zazU Comedy |
82 | Number 50 | Calum McDiarmid | Turn The Slate Productions |
Malice | Bobby | Jose Nieuwstad | Met Film School |
Stage
| Production | Character | Director | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
Zazu a fete worse than death | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | Pleasance Courtyard |
Zazu Comedy | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | St James Theatre |
Dick comes again | Dave the cat | Stuart Saint | Leicester Square Theatre |
Titus Andronicus | Lucius | Benjamin Blyth | Malachite Theatre |
Newsrevue | Alex / BluPerformer / Writer | Katherine Armitage | Canal Cafe Theatre |
Scripted | Alex / Blu | David Wike | Southwark Playhouse |
A midsummers night's dream | Bottom / Puck | Claire Dunlop | Erasmus International Musical and Theatre |
Things that never grew in the garden | Tom | Joe Murphy | Hampstead Theatre |
Macbeth | Malcolm | David Salter | Cambridge Shakespeare Festival |
Antony and cleopatra | Caesar | David Rowan | Cambridge Shakespeare Festival |
The tempest | Prospero | Chris Geelan | Young shakespeare company |
The three musketeers | Athos | Jonathan Kaufman | Dolphin Open Air Theatre |
Romeo and juliet | Mercutio | Paul Gladwin | Young Shakespeare Company |
The comedy of errors | Duke Solinus / Dr Pinch | Knight Mantell | Brockwell Open Air Theatre |
The big ugly monster & the little stone rabbit | Puppeteer / Various Characters | Matt Cullum | Pleasance Theatre |
Loves Labours Lost | Longaville | Knight Mantell | Brockwell Open Air Theatre |
The Bards of Bangkok | Arnold | Paul McBain | Edinburgh Fringe Festival |
The Shed - The World At One | Anthony | David Dorian | Kings Head Theatre |
Young scriptwriters project | Various Characters | Debra Glazer | Hampstead Theatre |
Other
| Production | Character | Director | Company |
|---|---|---|---|
Zazu: A fete worse than death | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | Museum of Comedy/ Leicester Square Theatre |
Lotto Katie Price | Director Nick | Jeff Low | Biscuitworks Films / BBH |
Pizza hut classic | Hero | Jeff Low | Biscuitworks Films / BBH |
Zazu Comedy | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | Edinburgh Fringe |
Zazu Comedy | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | London Sketchfest Finalists |
KFC Daredevil bites campaign | Man (Lead) | Jeff Low | Biscuitworks Films / BBH |
Zazu Comedy Presents | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | St James Theatre |
KFC megabox campaign | Man (Lead) | Jeff Low | Biscuitworks Films / BBH |
Zazu Comedy | Performer / Writer | Katharine Armitage | Leicester Square Theatre |
Zazu Comedy | Performer / Writer | Katherine Armitage | Velvet Pet Productions |
Laid in kentish | Spam | Kahli Gaskin | Canal Cafe Theatre |
Fighter within xbox kinect | Dave | Will Jeffery | Maverick Media |
Nadine Shah - Aching Bones | Waiter | Andrew Phillips | In House Films |
Comedy
Nick is creator, writer and performer with comedy collective Zazu currently in development for television and radio. He has just returned from a sell out run with the Pleasance at Edinburgh Fringe 2015 which was very well received by audiences and critics alike.
Nick also directed a sell out run for Guinness world record holding topical sketch show NewsRevue earlier in the year as well as starring in a number of high profile commercial campaigns. He appears in the film Scarlett Says currently touring the festival circuit, sister film to the critically acclaimed 82 in which he also stars.
Nick has also appeared in new plays for Southwark Playhouse and Hampstead Theatre.