TV Director Theatre Director Writer Senior Lecturer
He moved to London to begin his career at the BBC as a Studio Manager in Radio, soon moving to Television as an Assistant Producer in Presentation.
In 1983 he took a year out to work as a Flotilla Skipper in the Sporades Islands of Greece before returning to the BBC take a Producer job in Presentation.
He has also directed and produced theatre, for two fringe companies – Show of Strength and his own FOD Productions – as well as major community Son-et-Lumière spectaculars at historic sites in S.E.Wales.
Additionally he is a writer, with one short film and two stage plays produced.
Throughout his life a love of sailing has dominated his leisure time as well as sometimes being a source of income. He has been RYA Yachtmaster Offshore since 1985, and an RYA Cruising Instructor since 2009.
In 2003 he sailed the Atlantic from Las Palmas in the Canaries to St. Lucia in the Windward Isles, and in 2006 he sailed his current yacht, Such Stuff, to Sardinia, where she now resides. Nick has also bought a house there, in Bosa, which is available for holiday lets.
He is currently writing a book, provisionally entitled Directing Television, and, alongside his academic career, remains available for freelance work in television and theatre and as a yacht skipper and instructor.