Plays

  • Your Funeral (Oct 2025, Burton Taylor Studio Theatre, Oxford)

Here you can browse a list of Nick’s plays, some of which have hyperlinks which will take you to reviews or interviews.

Matt Sheldon as Jeff and Rebecca Harper. Photos by Freddie Houlihan.

“What’s the real reason why you won’t let me help with your funeral?”

Two months ago, Jeff and Anna were in love. In one month, Anna will be dead.

Your Funeral is a story about love, mortality and memory. As Jeff and Anna’s last meeting comes to a conclusion, desire, hatred, pity, weakness and grief all become blurred as the two try and reconcile with their futures, and mourn the futures that could have been.

Your Funeral, inspired by Neutral Milk Hotel’s song In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, is an emotionally bold and raw one-act new play, written and directed by playwright and musician Nick Samuel.

'Possessed all the emotional dexterity' and ‘deftly illuminat[ing]’ ~ President's Husband Reviews

‘Extremely funny and emotionally intense’ ~ Cherwell

‘Sharply defined, yet nuanced, characters’ ~ The Vu

‘Sharp, funny and quietly devastating’ ~ The Last Act Critic

  • Ospedale (May 2026, Michael Pilch Studio Theatre, Oxford)

Diya Sengupta as Clemenzia, Niara Milsap as Geltruda, Francesca Kusserow as Marcolina and Tarana Varma as Fiorina. Photos by Willow Lock.

‘Do you know what the scaffetta is? We weren’t born here. You know that, yes? So how did we get into this place? Our mothers can’t look after us, or at least, they don’t love us enough to try. That’s what the scaffetta is for. Through there, in one of the walls, there is a hole. On the outside of the hole is Venice. The Venetian mothers bring their children to the scaffetta when they can’t bear to look Marcolina in the eye as they hand over their babies forever. That’s why it was made, so that our mothers could be anonymous. No one will see you do it, you don’t even have to wait to see it received. You don’t even need to say anything. You set your baby down for the last time in the scaffetta, and then you leave, and that’s the last you see of your child.’

Ospedale is a new play set in the Ospedale della Pieta, a Catholic girls' orphanage-slash-music school, in Venice in 1710. It follows the stories of four orphan musicians, Clemenzia, Geltruda, Fiorina and Marcolina, as they grow up in a prosperous institution that loves God, music, and money, but not them.

Interview with George Loynes ~ The Vu

‘Excellent Historical Drama’ ~ Audience review

  • Greek Nightmare (Sep 2026, Wanstead Curtain, London)

George Loynes as Ephialtes. Photos by Izzy Moore.

‘Greek Nightmare reimagines one of history’s greatest acts of betrayal through the eyes of the man who committed it. Branded a traitor for leading the Persians around the Spartan defences at Thermopylae, Ephialtes has spent ten years running from his past, haunted by guilt. Now, reliving his story on an isolated mountain peak, he must finally confront the choice that defined his legacy.’

Q and A with the cast and crew — Camille Reviews

‘Sharply evocative and enlightening’ — Camille Reviews