Nick Hern Books is the Topic Sponsor of Writing at TheatreCraft 2026
Nick Hern Books is the UK’s leading specialist theatre publisher and performing rights agents.
We’re home to today’s most exciting and renowned playwrights – including Waleed Akhtar, Annie Baker, Mike Bartlett, Chris Bush, Jez Butterworth, Caryl Churchill, David Edgar, debbie tucker green, Jeremy O. Harris, Ella Hickson, Robert Icke, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Lucy Kirkwood, Tony Kushner, Conor McPherson, Lynn Nottage, Winsome Pinnock, Jack Thorne, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Enda Walsh, and many more. We work with theatres and producers across the UK and Ireland to publish our writers’ plays alongside their professional productions, and license the plays for amateur performance by community-theatre groups, schools, college, universities and others around the world.
We also publish expert, practical books on a range of disciplines – including writing, directing, producing, facilitating, designing, and more – to support creatives in their own work and careers.
See more at www.nickhernbooks.co.uk.
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