Hospital receptionist today. Ringer for Kim Woodburn. Chap on the phone telling his wife he was being booked in. Kim motioned for his phone.
“Are you his wife? We’re sorting him out. Yes, he does need sorting out. You’re quite right. We’ll sort him out & send him back to you.”
Engraving the Ivor Novello award as we speak #totp
Skate punk Biff Tannen #totp
Man I Feel Like A Spirit In The Sky #totp
Rehearsal pictures from my play BEARING GIFTS, now on at INK Festival (in full swing until Sunday).
Theatre impresario Gabe Carmichael needs a miracle. His angel arrives in the form of the (second) richest man in New York. But is the price of investment too high?
📸 Origin8 Photography
Thank you for sharing! ❤️
Back up at INK Festival this weekend to see my play BEARING GIFTS, which is being directed by the brilliant Nicola Sanderson from Slow Horses, Fawlty Towers (West End) and many more!
👉🔗 Meet The Cast — Bearing Gifts at INK Festival: www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/4/...
No way! Small world. The theatre folk there are really lovely.
Performance pictures 📸 🎭
TRUE TO YOU at Howick Little Plays in Auckland, New Zealand 🇳🇿
www.nickydenovan.com/news/2026/4/...
Stayed up late to watch the NASA livestream of the Artemis splashdown. Everyone involved in the enterprise - from Mission Control to astronauts - possessed a level of calm competence that I would struggle to match changing a fire alarm battery.
Going to tell the young people this was Babes in Toyland #totp
Binary Finary. Pass me the winary. #totp
Don’t think we didn’t notice when he over-corrected and went a bit Orville #totp
Chemical Brothers. Sent from the future to insert stone-cold bangers into the timeline. #totp
I invented that “Better Off Alone” piano hook on my new Casio keyboard during Christmas 1985. No-one ever believes me. #totp
In the ‘90s, if you said: “I’ve got a bunch of lads here, probably one of them can sort of sing”, cheque books flew open #totp
Thank you to UK Film Festival and Festival Director Murray Woodfield for this exciting news: ALAN HAS LEFT THE CHAT has made the shortlist in the 10-Minute Script competition! 🎉
I would LOVE to see this film made with real live humans. Can I manifest this reality? WE SHALL SEE 👀 🙏
▶️ Now on YouTube: Recording of my radio play ARMCHAIR CRITIC from the fine folk at Broken Arts Entertainment 📻
🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=55qK...
Literally thought this was Celine Dion.
Just signed off the proof of my short story “Belongings”, which will be published in this new anthology being launched next month at Putney Library. 👁️ ❤️ 📚
The paperback of the Liza Minnelli autobiography costs more than the hardback.
✍️ 📚🎭🔗 www.waterstones.com/book/comedie...
Heck of a green room, this. Flea sinking warm Heineken with Dane Bowers. #totp
Current joy-giving thing: Ethan Hawke being such a wise old soul, radiating humility and thoughtfulness. Perceptive and sharp but without edge. A man peacefully rowing his own boat.
“You’ll never top the hat”
“Hold my hair elastics” #totp
I’m writing for INK Festival 2026! ✍️
📍 Join us in Halesworth, Suffolk from 16th - 19th April for 4 days of incredible new short plays, comedy and more. 🎭
🎫 Tickets on sale now at 🔗 inkfestival.org/festival2026
#INKFestival2026 #NewWriting #SupportTheArts #INKOnStage #INKis10
Gosh, Emo Phillips makes me laugh…
Wouldn’t want to be in this cafe after night closing.
📣 My play ARMCHAIR CRITIC is hitting the airwaves in Broken Arts Entertainment’s Make Me Laugh audio series. 🎙️ 🎭
🗓️ Fri March 27 2026
🕒 Live at 3pm EST
▶️ Head to YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/@brokenartse...
Once aired, available to stream across all podcasting platforms 🎙️
