Nicko Vaughan
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Nicko Vaughan

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Dr Nicko Vaughan started out as a stand-up comedian back in 1996 when, at the age of 21, and after only two gigs, she performed in the final of the ‘open mic’ competition for The Stand Up Show, which was broadcast on BBC One. It was also around this time that she started writing for various comedy magazines and having short stories published in various anthologies. A lover of bad movies and a passionate Sherlock Holmes fan, Nicko has managed to take both of these interests and made them the focus of her first two books. In 2004, she was once more drawn to comedy, and wrote the stage show Songs We Think We Know, which she performed with her comedy partner Joe Timmins at the 2004 Melbourne International Comedy Festival. After receiving critical acclaim for that show, she returned in 2005 with another, Appetite for Distraction, before writing a third, Nicko & Joe Sell Out, which she performed at the 2005 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her script Death Plays Black, a serialised disaster film for the radio, was shortlisted for the BBC Witty and Twisted Award, and she was commissioned to write and perform a promo ident for the Summer of British Film season on BBC Two, and for pilots on various projects for Talkback Thames. She also had a stint reviewing DVD releases and presenting The Comedy Zone on BBC 7/BBC Radio 4 Extra, as well as reviewing films in her column for New Empress magazine. In 2006 she set up the interactive Bad Film Club from an idea she and Joe had kicked around while at the Edinburgh Fringe the previous year, and she has been writing and producing the show (including performances at Cardiff Chapter Arts Centre and the Barbican Centre in London) and touring it internationally ever since. In 2008 she also organised the first Bad Film Club Film Festival at the Barbican, where actress Jenny McShane, star of Shark Attack 3, accepted the award for best bad movie of all time. Bad films continue to be her passion, and she now uses them as a cautionary example in her lectures on screenwriting at the as part of the Creative Writing Department. In 2019 Nicko set up Orange Pip Books, a branch of MX Publishing - the largest Sherlock Holmes Publisher - in the hopes of bringing a younger and more inclusive readership into the Sherlock Holmes family.
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