Eve Nicol is a theatre director and playwright.
A former Resident Artist at the Tron Theatre and the first Digital Associate of the National Theatre of Scotland, she is an alum of BBC Writersroom Scottish Voices and was nominated for the Popcorn Award for New Writing.
Her writing credits include her “boundary-breaking” (The Stage) debut play One Life Stand for Middle Child, an adaptation of Belle & Sebastian’s iconic album If You're Feeling Sinister for BBC and Avalon, new work for the Traverse Theatre’s Breakfast Plays, and shorts for Slung Low and Unicorn Theatre.
As a director, Eve’s work spans new writing, adaptations, and music-driven theatre. Recent projects include I Can Go Anywhere by Douglas Maxwell for Traverse Theatre, the 100-date US tour of hit Scottish musical Islander, and Svengali for Pleasance and Pitlochry Festival Theatre, featuring Chloe-Ann Tylor in a Filipa Bragança Award-winning performance.
As a dramaturg, Eve has collaborated with the National Theatre of Scotland, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, and Mull Theatre, developing new plays filled with music. She is a Trustee of the Dewar Arts Awards and a Creative Scotland Touring Fund panel member.
Whether performed in intimate pubs, massive festivals, swimming pools, or leading UK theatres, Eve’s music-filled, actor-centered stories about love and power aim straight for the heart and leave audiences with a renewed lust for life.
CONTACT
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CREDITS
WRITER
Svengali (in association with Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Pleasance) LONGLISTED FOR BBC POPCORN AWARD FOR NEW WRITING
Robin Hood (Cumbernauld Theatre)
If You’re Feeling Sinister (BBC Arts & Avalon)
One Life Stand (Middle Child)
Breakfast Plays: First Woman (Traverse Theatre)
15 Minutes Live (Slung Low & Unicorn)
DIRECTOR
Svengali (in association with Pitlochry Festival Theatre and Pleasance) WINNER OF THE FILIPA BRAGANCA AWARD
I Can Go Anywhere (Traverse Theatre)
The Drift (National Theatre of Scotland)
The Mistress Contract (Tron Theatre)
Starving, Exquisite Corpse and We Interrupt This Programme (A Play, A Pie and A Pint)
The Undiscovered Creature (Imaginate)
Sea Wall and The Pitchfork Disney (Heroes Theatre)
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR
Islander (US tour)
Love The Sinner (Vanishing Point)
V.L. (Francesca Moody Productions)
James V: Katherine (Raw Material & Capital Theatres)
What Girls Are Made Of (Raw Material & Traverse Theatre)
THEM! (National Theatre of Scotland)
Assistant Director, Lyceum 2016-2019
PREVIOUS WORK
Love The Sinner - Associate Director
Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
V.L. - Associate Director
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
James V: Katherine - Associate Director
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Islander - US tour director
Photo: Steve Tanner
Starving - Director
Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Svengali - Writer & Director
Photo: Andy Catlin
Exquisite Corpse - Director
Robin Hood - Writer
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
The Undiscovered Creature - Director
Photo: Jane Barlow
What Girls Are Made Of - Associate Director
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
Future Perfect (Tense) - Director
I Can Go Anywhere - Director
Photo: Lara Cappelli
The Drift - Director
Photo: Beth Chalmers
The Mistress Contract - Director
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
If You’re Feeling Sinister - Writer
Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic
THEM! - Associate Director
Photo: Tommy Ga-Ken Wan
Local Hero - Assistant Director
Photo: Stephen Cummiskey
One Life Stand - Writer
Photo: Sarah Beth
We Interrupt This Programme - Director
Sea Wall - Director
The Hour We Knew Nothing of Each Other - Assistant Director
Photo: Aly Wight
Glory on Earth - Assistant Director
Photo: Drew Farrell
Hero - Writer
GLITTERED - Writer
Photo: Chris Scot
Cock - Assistant Director
Photo: John Johnston
Fairytaleheart - Director
Photo: Eoin Carey
An Audience with Marco Polo - Director
The Pitchfork Disney - Director
Photo: Jassy Earl
Dear Glasgow - Digital Associate