Author | Editor | Writer | Teacher

Nina Millns

Nina studied English Literature at Sheffield University, Acting at East 15, Improvisation with the Free Association, Showstoppers and Monkey Toast, and Clown with Phillippe Gaulier. She is a member of the Criterion New Writers and the School of Hightide.

Winner of the ETPEP Playwriting Award and chosen for the Channel 4 Screenwriting Scheme, she signed a 2-book deal at auction with Simon & Schuster UK. Her debut novel Goddesses was optioned for TV. Her second book Say You’ll Be There was published in 2025.

Nina’s first play Delete was featured on BBC Radio 4 and adapted for audio by Wireless Theatre. Her second play Service won the ETPEP Award. Recent commissions include writing the BBC Sounds series Mortem, Dr Who: Saiorse Of The Seven Seas and Dr Who: The Turn of the Tides International Women’s Day Special audio series.

Nina is a proud Londoner of mixed heritage who speaks four languages. She comes from a musical family and was named after her Yiayia and Nina Simone. She runs writing courses and retreats and works with young people, helping them to fulfil their potential.

Goddesses

Some friends have your back.
Some friends stab you in the back.
Welcome to the hen party from hell.

Ayesha is finding her feet as a stand-up comedian. When her response to a sexist heckler suddenly goes viral, she and her friend Yaz are drawn into a clique of activists, and they are invited to an exclusive hen do in a country mansion. Except it's not a hen do - it's a Goddess Retreat.

But the Goddess Retreat is no laughing matter. As the weekend descends into chaos, they’ll need to stick together if they want to get out alive.

Goddesses explores the power dynamics of sisterhood and activism, the dark side of white feminism and the importance of making your voice heard.

Say You'll Be There

Say You’ll Be There is a celebration of friendship, a story of survival, and a fight against the notion that some girls were destined to quietly disappear.

1997. It’s Red Nose Day and Tess, Candace, Dana and Arianna rock up to school dressed as the same Spice Girl. Embarrassing. But it’s the start of a friendship that will see them through the challenges of school, family life, and their first romantic relationships – good, bad and unspeakable. And sure, they only became a band for detention, but this could be the start of everything they dreamed of…

2022. The girls haven’t been in touch for years – since devastating secrets and the trials of adult life tore them apart. Until, one day, Candace contacts Tess and Arianna to say Dana has gone missing. As the three women come together to search for their missing friend and fill in the gaps between the years, it opens up a world of trouble they all believed was firmly in the past.

Service

Winner of the 2021 ETPEP Award.

Eighty-year-old Fitz sits in a counselling session trying to piece together fragmented memories of joining the British Army and finding himself posted to Cyprus.

Before coming to England, his counsellor Dimitris deserted from the Cypriot army, but he can’t share that with Fitz…

A stunning award-winning new play, Service is a complex conflict of masculinity, colonialism and loyalty – in a room at the heart of the Empire.

Delete

Delete is a play about women, friendship and the Internet.

Tanya needs to serve her community sentence by teaching Patricia how to use the internet. Sue is Tanya’s parole officer, and she’s dating. Mostly men with beards. A funny, poignant and ultimately shocking play about an unlikely friendship between three women in a world saturated in online abuse, sexual violence and addiction.

A complex, moving story, Delete explores friendship between women of different generations, and the risks and online harm women can so easily experience.