Nicholas Paul Enright AM was an Australian dramatist, playwright and theatre director.
13 Facts About Nick Enright
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Nick Enright was born on 22 December 1950 to a prosperous professional Catholic family in East Maitland, New South Wales.
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Nick Enright was drama captain of St Ignatius' College, Riverview in Sydney in 1964, where, like Gerard Windsor and Justin Fleming, he was taught by Melvyn Morrow.
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Nick Enright worked as a gofer for Sydney's Nimrod Theatre before being appointed a trainee director at the Melbourne Theatre Company.
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Nick Enright won an Australia Council Fellowship to study directing at New York University, graduating in 1977.
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Nick Enright was Head of Acting at the NIDA in 1983 and 1984.
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Nick Enright was encouraged to write plays while at NYU by one of his teachers, the playwright Israel Horovitz.
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Nick Enright's many plays include: Good Works, Blackrock, Daylight Saving, Mongrels, The Female Factory, A Man with Five Children, On the Wallaby, and A Poor Student, many of them published by Currency Press.
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Nick Enright wrote a number of screenplays; he was nominated for an Academy Award for his screenplay of Lorenzo's Oil.
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Nick Enright wrote the book of the stage musical version of The Boy from Oz, based on the biography of the same name written by Stephen MacLean, which was produced by Ben Gannon with great success around Australia, and, after his death, in New York.
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Nick Enright wrote for ABC Radio, including Watching over Israel.
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Nick Enright edited Holding the Man, a memoir by his former NIDA student, Timothy Conigrave, and, following Conigrave's death, saw it to publication by Penguin Books.
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Nick Enright had been appointed an adjunct professor in the School of Drama at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts; after his death, one of his former WAAPA students, Eddie Perfect, wrote an elegiac song about him.