
Richard Hurst
Richard is currently script-editing a Miranda Hart project that's being developed by the BBC.
2000- present: Reader for the BBC, Royal Court Young Writers' festival
1997- present: Selector / workshop leader for the National Student Drama Festival
1995-8: Associate Director / Literary Manager of Grace Theatre and London Writers' Forum
Awards:
1995 RSC Buzz Goodbody Director Award
1994 Sunday Times' Harold Hobson Student Drama Critic Award
Writing:
Theatre includes:
· The Edinburgh Love Tour (co-written) Pleasance, Edinburgh 2005
· Hard Times (adapted), for national tour autumn 2004
· Strong Family Values (co-written)
· Violent Night (co-written)
· Ripley Bogle (adapted)
Comedy includes:
· Bill Hicks: Slight Return, (co-written), Edinburgh and national tour 2004-06
· Co-writer on all Four Horsemen shows in London and Edinburgh 1997 - 2000
- Material for Miranda Hart's House Party; Miranda Hart: All About Me; Miranda Hart-Throbs!; Miranda Hart on 99p Challenge (Radio 4)
- Co-writer on This Is Pop! (BBC Choice)
Journalism includes:
- Reviews and articles for The Scotsman (1996, 1997), The Independent (1994), Rasp (1994-6)
Script editing includes:
- Miranda Hart's House Party (also directed)
- Miranda Hart Throbs (also directed)
- Sleep Tight (short film by Catriona Craig, 2002)
- Billie Piper Lives In Swindon (BBC Talent sitcom finalist, 2000)
Directing:
Theatre includes:
- Bill Hicks: Slight Return (co-written with Chas Early) Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2004-06. National and international tour including Manchester Royal Exchange, Olympia, Dublin, West End
- The Art Of Success (Dear) Crescent Theatre, Birmingham, 2005
- Hamlet Custard Factory, Birmingham, 2003
- Women Beware Women (Middleton / Barker) Hippodrome Studio, Birmingham, 2002
- Phaedra's Love (Kane) Hippodrome Studio, Birmingham, 2002
- Madame Butterfly's Child (new) Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, 1999; Star Alliance Theatre, Hong Kong; Dulwich Festival; Edinburgh; Sherman Theatre, Cardiff, 2000
- Play Wisty For Me (new) Riverside Studios; Pleasance Theatre Edinburgh 1999; national tour; Melbourne Comedy Festival 2002
- Twelfth Night; BAC 1998
- Ripley Bogle (By Robert McLiam Wilson, own adaptation); Grace Theatre 1997
- The Tempest; Grace Theatre 1997
Comedy includes:
- Silly Billy Bum Breath, Pleasance, Edinburgh 2006
- Miranda Hart's House Party, Pleasance, Edinburgh 2005.
- Bill Hicks: Slight Return (co-written with Chas. Early) Pleasance, Edinburgh, 2004-06. National and international tour including Manchester Royal Exchange, Olympia, Dublin, West End
- Comedy Rep (various pieces), Soho Theatre, London; 2003
- Miranda Hart-Throbs!, Pleasance, Edinburgh; Pleasance, London; national tour, 2002
- At Last! It's War, Famine, Death and Pestilence!, Riverside Studios; Gilded Balloon, Edinburgh, 1999
Television:
- Give Peace a Dance (1st AD to Bruce Goodison); pilot for BBC Choice
- This Is Pop! (2nd AD to Bruce Goodison); BBC Choice
- (script editor, BBC, freelance theatre director)