Writers

Trodd en Bratt
Neil Cole
Chris Corcoran
Iain Coyle
Jenni Davies
Dominik Diamond
Paolo Hewitt
Dominic Holland
Jeff Maysh
Guy Pratt
Neil Sean
Paul Simper
Christos Tolera
Inel Tomlinson
Mike Ward
Phil Whelans
Liam Woodman

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)
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