Nick is a playwright and theatre director. He is an Associate Director at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth and an Honorary Fellow of Exeter University.  He has also written and directed for radio and television.

Among musicals written with the composer Chris Williams are: Brother Jacques, Wistman’s Drum, Stand Up Noah Small, Stay Tuned, Monkey, The Hot Rock, Starchild, Korczak, The Lost Domain and Unforgotten. Other plays include That Certain Night, The Seven Deadly Sins, Tristan and Isolde, The Last Dance, Union Street & Matthew Miller (the last two both with Nick Discombe), All Change (with Ian MacMillan and Howard Moody), NHS The Musical (with Jimmy Jewell), Borderline (radio), and for TV Sumo. Nick’s plays have been produced in Britain and abroad and he has won several major awards including, most recently, The Vivian Ellis Prize for the Best Musical for Young People (Starchild). He has also written three collections of poetry: In Magnet Air (Phoenix Press), Histories (Priapus Press) and Flying Pigs (Enitharmon). 

Recent productions he has directed include: A Meeting With The Little Prince (Gdynia,  Poland); The Seven Deadly Sins (Portland Young Offenders Institution);Korczak (Plymouth, Gdynia, Warsaw, London); Oh What A Lovely War, The Threepenny Opera, The Hot Rock, The Pirates of Penzance, Animal Farm, Loot, Monkey, The Lost Domain, Union Street and Brother Jacques (all at the Theatre Royal, Plymouth), Matthew Miller (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), Days Of Hope (Northcott Theatre, Exeter), All Change (The Anvil, Basingstoke),  A Winter’s Tale (The Sage, Gateshead), and NHS The Musical (Drum Theatre, Theatre Royal, Plymouth).

He is currently writing the new full-scale version of Frankenstein for YMTUK and Who Ate All The Pies?, a musical about football, both with that talented young composer Jimmy Jewell.

A devoted supporter of Crystal Palace FC, he is alos a passionate believer in miracles.