NICKI BLOOM

​Writer 
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Nicki Bloom is a multiple award-winning writer working across stage, screen and prose. 

Her plays include TENDER, LAND & SEA, BLOODWOOD, THE SUN AND THE OTHER STARS, A CATHEDRAL, LITTLE BIRD and VALE. Her adaptations for the stage include Henrik Ibsen’s GHOSTS, Oscar Wilde’s THE YOUNG KING and Erich Kästner’s EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES.  

Her work has been produced by companies all over Australia and the world including Belvoir, Griffin, Hothouse, Summer Play Festival/Public Theatre NYC (TENDER); State Theatre Company of South Australia (GHOSTS, LITTLE BIRD, VALE); NIDA (VALE); Adelaide Cabaret Festival (LITTLE BIRD); Brink Productions (LAND & SEA) and Slingsby (THE YOUNG KING, EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES).

Her work has toured to theatres and festivals all over Australia, NZ, the UK, Ireland, the USA, Canada, China and India. 

She has been a writer in residence at the Donmar Warehouse in London, at Griffin Theatre in Sydney and is a double recipient of Goethe-Institut Scholarships, including as an invited member of the Theatertreffen International Forum in Berlin. 

She has won a Helpmann Award for EMIL AND THE DETECTIVES and an AWGIE award for LITTLE BIRD. Her many other awards include the Adrian Consett Stephen Memorial Prize (TENDER); the Inscription Chairman’s Award for Best Play (TENDER); the Patrick White Playwrights’ Award (BLOODWOOD); the Inscription Playwriting Award (BLOODWOOD); the Jill Blewett Playwrights’ Award (A CATHEDRAL); the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship (THE SUN AND THE OTHER STARS) and the Henry Lawson Prize for Prose.  

Nicki co-wrote two one-hour episodes of 6-part television series PHANTOM HUNTERS which is now in production with Paramount + and will air later this year.  She received ABC’s Fresh Start development funding to develop her new television series based in Australia.  She is currently under commission to adapt an iconic series of Australian novels for the stage.  Nicki is creating and writing two original television series with Amusement Park Films based in Berlin, as well as working on her debut novel, ANCHOR & ALP.