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Nick Barnes
He also played many roles on radio including Dawid in The Diary of Dawid Rubinowicz, a highly acclaimed monologue about the Holocaust for BBC Radio 3. This led BBC producer John Tydeman to offer him a 30 Minute Theatre monologue - The Diary of Nigel Mole. The success of this broadcast led to publisher's Methuen commissioning author Sue Townsend to write an extended version of Mole's exploits - which became The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, aged 13¾. This was also adapted and broadcast on Radio 4, and Nick recorded subsequent volumes of Mole's journals up to his exploits at 26 in Adrian Mole - The Wilderness Years, many of which have been released as best-selling cassettes by BBC Enterprises, and more recently as a CD/gift card set. In addition to performing the role on radio, he popped up as Mole on Pebble Mill, This Morning with Richard & Judy, and in venues up and down the country. Nick has also co-presented the BAFTA nominated Saturday morning children's series Number 73. Other television performances have been in the television films Scoop and Ball Trap On The Cote Sauvage, the series Bad Girls, Love and Marriage, A Killing On The Exchange, The Bretts, The Bill, Casualty, Romeo & Juliet, Lifeschool, Wrinkly, Facing Up To AIDS, Where There's A Will, and as a hapless scriptwriter for Acorn Antiques in Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV. Theatre work has included an international tour of Saint Joan and The Tempest with the late Sir Anthony Quayle's company, Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Stafford Castle), Orlando in As You Like It, Elyot Chase in Private Lives, and Leonard in Alan Ayckbourn's Time and Time Again (all at Eye Theatre, Suffolk), Greg in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking (United Arab Emirates Tour), Teechers (Lowestoft Theatre), Building Blocks (Southwold Theatre), Candida (Arts Theatre), The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (directed by Charlton Heston) and fringe productions Nemesis?, Watcher In The Rain, Frozen Chicken Parts, Steven Newman Doesn't Eat Quiche, Anouilh's Antigone (Etcetera Theatre) and Sara (a new version of Chekhov's Ivanov at the Bridewell Theatre). Credits as director includes The Fantasticks (Denning Hall, Croydon & Canal Cafe), Take It Up The Octave (Talk of London) and a charity concert of Jesus Christ Superstar; and as a writer he has completed the book and lyrics for LIFE: a musical with sentences which will be produced someday (one of the songs Hand Me Down can be heard on If You Were Mine - a Crusaid/West End Cares CD release) and A Celebrity Chef Ate My Hamster!, both written with his musical collaborator Grant Olding. The last few years have been busy with the West End run of Alan Ayckbourn's Comic Potential at the Lyric Theatre, occasionally playing the writer who falls in love with multiple award winner Janie Dee?s android actor JC333; We ndell Ash Was Here at the Finborough Theatre; a record-breaking run at the Landor Theatre as evangelical fruitcake Charles J Guiteau in the musical Assassins by Stephen Sondheim; as Joanna Riding?s love interest in a workshop of Breaking News a new musical at the Kings Head Theatre; filming The Penalty King a new black comedy from writer/director Chris Cook; recording a My Hero christmas special for BBC Television; a new cross-cultural production of Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking in Malaysia; an episode of the BBC sitcom Chambers; workshops of new plays for the Royal Court and the Wolsey Studio, Ipswich; playing the lead role in the UK premiere of John Mighton?s remarkable play Possible Worlds as part of The Steam Industry?s Faith & Science season at the Finborough Theatre; appearing as a Lutheran Minister opposite Sigourney Weaver in the film version of the 9-11 play The Guys; and most recently celebrating the world premiere run of his bite-sized musical comedy A Celebrity Chef Ate My Hamster! at the Bridewell Theatre in London. News & ReviewsNo items available | 
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Nick's career began as a child with a stage debut for the Royal Shakespeare Company in Romeo & Juliet, playing Sean Connery's son in the cult science fiction film Outland, and appearing in many television programmes including Barlow, Anna Karenina, Enemy at the Door, & Goodbye Mr Chips.