WAR HORSE's Nick Stafford Signs with CAA

According to Deadline.com, Tony winner Nick Stafford, who wrote Broadway's WAR HORSE, has officially signed with CAA- Creative Artists Agency.

Stafford trained at Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, and his first professionally produced play was commissioned in 1987 by the Half Moon Young People's Theatre, where Stafford was writer-in-residence. He also got commissions from other small companies, before going to the Young Vic, also as writer-in-residence.  

Stafford's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's novel War Horse was first produced in London in 2007, where it is still running; other productions are running in New York and will open next year (2012) in Toronto, Canada. His play Katherine Desouza has been adapted as a forthcoming film, Baptism. 

Stafford also has had several plays produced on BBC Radio 4, and has been commissioned to write movies and television drama; none of these bar a BBC short has been filmed. Stafford was a Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Roehampton University from 2003-06 and at the University of Southampton from 2007-09. Stafford's first novel, Armistice, was published in 2009.