Nicholas Verney Wright (born 1940 in Cape Town, South Africa) is a British dramatist.
Nicholas Wright was born in Cape Town, attended Rondebosch Boys' School and from the age of six was a child actor on radio and on the stage.
He came to London in 1958 to train as an actor at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) and subsequently worked as a floor-assistant in BBC Television and as a runner in film, notably John Schlesinger's Far From the Madding Crowd.
His publications include 99 Plays, a survey of drama from Aeschylus to the present day, and Changing Stages, co-written with Richard Eyre.
He is currently (2016) writing a stage version of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde for Gale King Productions and writing an original play about the last 24 hours in the life of Benazir Bhutto.