TV & Theatre Writer
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Current Projects
2022 - 2024
LANDING BOLTS, touring October 2024
I am commissioned to write Landing Bolts, Sita Thomas’s first in-house project as AD of Fio Theatre. Landing Bolts is a play about qpoc skaters who’s coming of age story gets interrupted by the threat of deportation. I’m leading the writer’s room ahead of delivering the final script next year. The play will have a Wales & England tour in 2024.
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More info here: https://www.wearefio.org.uk/landingbolts
2023
DEVELOPING YOUR CREATIVE PRACTICE GRANT
DYCP grant to take 6 months out to develop my writing craft. Researching my ancestral history; Chinese & Indian Indentured labourers in Guyana (1838 - 1917). Exploring how to use the Horror genre to authentically portray my relationship to this research period.
2023
SOUTH LONDON STORIES
I am commissioned by London Bubble Theatre to run playwriting sessions for people who have experience with the criminal justice system and people with experience of the care system. In these sessions, I either guide the artist to write their play, or write their play based on the work they create in the sessions. These monologues are made into films.
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2019 - current
OCO-2 (unproduced)
Originally written on the the Royal Court Writing Group. Suba Das chose to direct it for Hightide's Inventing the Future Festival last year. The play is also ACE supported, was the runner-up for the RSL Sky Art's Award, longlisted for the Alfred Fagon Award, and got me onto the C4screenwritiing course against almost 3000 other scripts. Please email me if you're interested in reading it - nicolelatchana@hotmail.com
Dr Price has introduced a radical population control policy to restore the earth’s optimal temperature. Despite being told her baby has been aborted, Lucy is convinced her baby is still alive. But when the two women come face-to-face Lucy learns getting her child back will trigger a climate apocalypse.
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‘Right now, you are not you. You have enough hormones in your body to attack an army of bulls,
because you think you’ll win. You aren’t capable of making this decision logically, let me make it for you.’
A play about instinct. A play about reason. A play about love.
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2020 - current
TV & Film
I have spec scripts in the following genres: comedy-drama, thriller, sitcom comedy, and TV pitches & treatments across all genres but mainly sci-fi & horror. All of my scripts place character at the heart of the story. Please email me if you'd like to chat - nicolelatchana@hotmail.com
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Accolades
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2023: Shortlisted for the BFI x BBC x Climate Spring Programme
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2022: 4Screenwriting Course
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2021: Shortlisted for the 503five
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2021: Shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature X SKYArts Writer's Award
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2021: Shortlisted for the WOLAB First Comissions
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2020: Winner of the M6Theatre's Love in Time of Corona Monologue competition
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2020: Winner of the Hello Popelei Women in Lockdown Monologue competition
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2020: Nominated for the Alfred Fagon Award
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2020: 'OCO-2' chosen for The Arcola Playwrought Festival
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2019: Nominated for the Alfred Fagon Award
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2019: 'Home' Shortlisted for the ITV Original Voices Scheme
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2018: 'Home' Longlisted for the Papatango Prize for Playwriting
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2018: 'Home' reached the top 4% scripts for BBC Writersroom
Past Shows / Credits
Milly's Mum
monologue, 11minutes, June 2020
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One of ten winners of the 'Love in the Time of Corona Monologue' competition from M6Theatre.
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Filmed and written during lockdown.
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Milly's Mum says she will never die, her scrubs & mask are impenetrable. Milly wants to believe her. But Milly watches the news.
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Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performer: Lizzie Wilson | Director: Sarah Atherton
Accidentally On Purpose
monologue, 6minutes, May 2020
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One of 25 winners of the 'Women in Lockdown Monologue' competition from Popelei Theatre.
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Filmed and written during lockdown.
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About the cis-lesbian experience.
Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performer: Florence Howard
Fennel Spiked Lamb
duologue, 20minutes, 2017
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A short play about modern slavery.
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Performed at The Bunker Theatre as part of the Bunker Without Borders Festival
Writer: Nicole Latchana | Performers: Leila Nashef & Omar Baroud
2019-2020
Dutty Wine
A play about Carnival and Coming out. Wrote as a Rapid Response to J'Ouvert at the Theatre503. Directed by Kelechi Okafor
Starring Diana Yekinni & Bruna Campos
Education
2022
CHANNEL 4 SCREENWRITING
9 month TV writing programme
2014 - 2015
CENTRAL SCHOOL OF SPEECH AND DRAMA
MA Writing For Stage and Broadcast Media 2:1
2018
ROYAL COURT WRITER'S GROUP
Run by Simon Longman