Everything about Simon Nye totally explained
Simon Nye (born
29 July,
1958 in
Burgess Hill,
Sussex) is an
English comic television writer, best known for creating the hit
sitcom Men Behaving Badly.
Career
Nye was educated at
Bedford College, University of London, where he studied
French and
German. He started his writing career as a translator, publishing translations of books on
Richard Wagner,
Henri Matisse and
Georges Braque before turning his hand to novel writing in
1989 with
Men Behaving Badly. This was followed in
1991 by
Wideboy, which he later adapted into the TV show
Frank Stubbs Promotes.
Men Behaving Badly
Nye's TV writing career began in 1990 when he was persuaded by producer
Beryl Vertue to adapt his first novel for the small screen. The first series of
Men Behaving Badly was broadcast on
ITV in 1992. The show soon went on to achieve critical and commercial success, winning the
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award for Best Situation Comedy in 1995, and the
Royal Television Society Award for Best Situation Comedy/Comedy Drama in 1996. The show became the most-repeated comedy show in the 1990s.
Other work
Nye has written for over 20 different TV shows. Though best known for sitcoms - such as
Is It Legal? (starring
Kate Isitt),
How Do You Want Me? (starring
Charlotte Coleman and
Dylan Moran), and
Hardware (starring
Martin Freeman) - he's also written comedy dramas such as
Frank Stubbs Promotes (1993-1994), as well as literary adaptations such as
The Railway Children (2000). In addition, he's written a number of comic adaptations of
pantomimes including
Jack and the Beanstalk (1998),
Cinderella (2000) and
Dick Whittington (2002). He also wrote the short-lived 2001 sitcom,
The Savages.
Nye also continues to write translations, focusing in recent years on dramatic works. His translation of
Molière's
Don Juan was first performed at the
Crucible Theatre in
Sheffield in 2001, and his translation of
Dario Fo's
Accidental Death of an Anarchist premiered at the
Donmar Warehouse in London in 2003.
Filmography
Bibliography
Novels
Wideboy (1991) ISBN 0-670-83254-5
Men Behaving Badly (1989) ISBN 0-06-016069-1
Translations
Accidental Death of an Anarchist (2003) ISBN 0-413-77342-6
Matisse: The Graphic Work (1988) ISBN 0-8478-0932-3
Georges Braque: Life and Work (1988) ISBN 0-8478-0986-2
Vienna Opera (1987) ISBN 0-8478-0811-4Further Information
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