Simpatico was turned into a feature film in 1999, and this allowed David to start writing full-time. He also wrote his first original script, a situation comedy about frustrated waiters, Waiting, which was later optioned by the BBC.

This led to script-editing jobs at London Weekend Television and Tiger Aspect Productions.ĭuring this period, he began to write, developing an adaptation of Sam Shepard’s stage-play Simpatico with the director Matthew Warchus, an old friend from University. He worked sporadically as an actor for the next eight years, eventually earning a three year stint at the Royal National Theatre, followed by a job at BBC Radio Drama as a script reader/researcher. A student of Toynbee Comprehensive school and Barton Peveril Sixth Form College, he Graduated from the University of Bristol having studied English Literature and Drama.Īfter graduation, he won a scholarship to study at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York, before returning to London in 1991 and finally earning an Equity card. Caught between his stirring feelings for Nora, the demands of an insistent and secretive Josh, and his lifelong desire for a real career in show business, Stephen must make a terrible Will it be the girl or the fame?Ī hapless, bumbling bloke in love, an arrogant megastar with a potpourri of addictions, a sexy married woman out of her element in the fast lane–David Nicholls brings them all together in this knockout romantic comedy.ĭavid Nicholls is a British author, screenwriter, and actor. Another man might curse his luck at finding that his potential dream woman is a rival’s wife, but at this point, Stephen would expect nothing else. and discovers he likes her a little too much. Stephen doubts he’ll ever get his chance to slip on the puffy shirt and tight breeches of Byron and tread the boards in the role that would certainly be the break he’s always waited for.Īnd just when Stephen’s sure he couldn’t resent Josh more, he meets Josh’s witty, restless American wife, Nora. No matter how many all-night booze-and-coke benders Josh goes on, he always shows up at the stage door for his call like clockwork.

Not only is Josh fantastically, infuriatingly good-looking, internationally renowned, and remarkably talented, he’s also frustratingly healthy. Josh is the star of Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know, a biographical play about Lord Byron–and Stephen is his understudy. But a failed marriage, a stalled career, a judgmental ex-wife, a distant daughter, a horrid little studio apartment in the far reaches of the London suburbs–all these pathetic elements seem to pale in the chiseled face of his newest the Twelfth Sexiest Man in the World, Josh Harper. McQueen (no relation, unfortunately) seems to have a knack for bad luck.

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