Nicholas Renton – Director

Friday 1 August 2025

Nick comes from a musical family and studied mime in Paris with Jacques Lecoq. He began directing for theatre, then for television with films like The Interrogation of John, much of the BBC hit Hamish Macbeth starring Robert Carlyle, Far From the Madding Crowd, Andrew Davies’ BAFTA-nominated adaptation of Wives and Daughters, and Uncle Adolf, Nigel Williams’ take on Hitler’s affair with Geli, his niece. The Russian Bride with Lia Williams, Guy Hibbert’s modern version of Therèse Raquin, won FIPA Prix D’Or in Biarritz. After making A Room with a View for TV with Elaine Cassidy, Nick was in Dublin to shoot an off-beat rom-com Little White Lie, in which Elaine starred with Andrew Scott, and When Harvey Met Bob with Domhnall Gleeson and Ian Hart, the story of Bob Geldof and Harvey Goldsmith bringing LiveAid to Wembley. And later, three stories in the BBC’s Musketeers series. He directs several of Clare Norburn’s concertplays including Gesualdo – Breaking the Rules for The Marian Consort, The Empowered Women Trilogy and I, Spie for The Telling, and Creating Carmen for CarmenCo.