Nick Payne is a British playwright, studied at Central School of Speech and Drama and then at the University of York is also a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writer's Programme. His first play If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet opened at the Bush Theatre in 2009 which won the George Devine Award. His play Wanderlust opens in September 2010 directed by Stephen Godwin at the Royal Court Theatre upstairs.
If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet received unilateral praise from critics with the Evening Standard calling it "a comic tour de force" and the Financial Times "a knockout".