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.  She is currently under commission to adapt an iconic series of Australian novels for the stage.  

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 was 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 to 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 Blewitt Playwrights’ Award (A CATHEDRAL); the Barbara Hanrahan Fellowship (THE SUN AND THE OTHER STARS) and the Henry Lawson Prize for Prose.  

Her screen work includes eco-cyber thriller A THIN LINE for Paramount+ Germany (pilot episode, co-written) which premiered in February 2023, and an episode of high-end political vampire thriller CITY OF BLOOD for Disney+ Germany, premiering  in 2026.
 
She has a number of projects in active development/pre-production, including a German/ Greek/ Luxembourgish political thriller, BROTHERS, for ARD Degeto Germany (writer, 2 episodes) and a German/UK historical epic POPE JOAN also for ARD Degeto Germany (writer, 2 episodes). 
 
Alongside developing material for Netflix Germany, she is creating and head-writing a period drama based on a best-selling book series for Zurich Avenue/SPG3 Switzerland; creating and head-writing an original psychological thriller for Amusement Park Films (Germany) and Federation Entertainment (France); creating an original adventure drama series for Fireglory (Germany/USA); and an original comedy feature film for DOR Film (Austria/Germany.)
 
She is also working on her debut novel, ANCHOR & ALP.