Born in 1952 Nick grew up in Kent and was educated at Gravesend School for Boys and Christ Church, Oxford where he read English, obtaining an M.A., 2nd Class Hons.
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 to take a Producer job in Presentation.
In 1986 he left again to pursue his other love – the theatre – and moved to the West Country to attend the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School on a Director’s Attachment. For the next 24 years he worked freelance in both television and theatre before beginning an academic career on a part-time basis for both Bournemouth and Aberystwyth Universities.  In September 2010 he took up a full-time post as Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Television Production at Bournemouth University. .
In 2016 he completed his PhD by practice entitled Emancipating Madame Butterfly: Intention and Process in Adapting and Queering a Text.  Bangkok Butterfly was the resultant artefact.
From 2019-20 he was Senior Lecturer, TV Drama at Falmouth University and he remained an Associate Lecturer there for several years.
​He lives with his partner, actor and writer Richard Curnow, in Mullion Cove, Cornwall, and they are both Artistic Directors of What Now Productionsiter/Director/Media Academic

Formerly a TV producer/director, then university lecturer, Nick now focuses primarily on writing, but also directs in the theatre.

His romance/adventure novel SEA CHANGE  was awarded a​ Red Ribbon in the 2025 Wishing Shelf Awards.  It is available from bookshops or Amazon

His new novel, BANGKOK BUTTERFLY will be appearing very soon...

His most recent play JUNKIES opened at the Brighton Fringe in May 2025 prior to a short tour in Cornwall in June followed by the Midlands in October.

COME OUT FIGHTING completed a tour of Devon, Cornwall and London in 2023.
Both tours were produced by What Now Productions, the company he runs with his partner Richard Curnow.