Florence Espeut-Nickless

Florence Espeut-Nikless

Florence is a writer and actor from Chippenham in Wiltshire. She writes for stage and screen about and with working-class communities in the hope of making the arts more accessible to everyone, regardless of background and geographical location.

Her playwriting credits include Destiny (Tobacco Factory Theatres and UK tour), and is currently being adapted for TV. She was awarded one of the 2024 Peggy Ramsay/Film4 playwriting Bursary awards, was the CRF Writer in Residence at Pentabus Theatre, an Open Session Writer at Bristol Old Vic and an associate artist at Strike a Light, as part of the Let Artists Be Artists scheme..

She  adapted The Odyssey (Episode 3: The Four Winds) for the National Theatre and Trowbridge Town Hall and was under commission to National Theatre Connections.

She was CRF Writer in Residence at Pentabus, an Open Session Writer at Bristol Old Vic, associate artist at Strike A Light as part of their Let Artists Be Artists Scheme, and part of BBC Writersroom Voices South group 2023.

She also wrote Miracle on 34 Seymour Street (Trowbridge Town Hall) and is currently developing a new play Blinded by Your Grace (Bristol Old Vic/Strike A Light/GL4/MAYK/Trowbridge Town Hall).

She was a finalist on 4Stories (C4/Blacklight) and shortlisted for Dancing Ledge’s Writer in Residence scheme.