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Richard Beecham - Selector

Richard read English at Jesus College, Oxford and gained a Masters in Theatre at RADA/King’s College, London. In 1997 he was awarded a Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme bursary to train at the Bolton Octagon and completed his training in 1999 at the National Theatre Studio. He has directed at theatres throughout the country including: The School For Scandal, The Miser, The Invention Of Love and Side by Side by Sondheim (Salisbury Playhouse); The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Private Lives, Charley’s Aunt, Black Comedy and The Real Inspector Hound (Northcott Theatre, Exeter); A Taste of Honey, Neville’s Island, How The Other Half Loves (Watford Palace Theatre); Entertaining Mr Sloane (Best Production nomination MEN Awards) and the World Premiere of Early One Morning by Les Smith (Bolton Octagon); Romeo and Juliet (Creation Theatre/Oxford Stage Company); The Bench (Battersea Arts Centre); the world premieres of Just Before The War by Julia Pascal (Young Vic Studio), Eulogy For A Hard Man by Steve Chambers (Live Theatre, Newcastle) and The History of Miss Fortune by Rowan Joffe (C-Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe); The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd, The Children’s Hour, Present Laughter and The Exception and The Rule (ArtsEd. London); Our Town and Widows (Oxford School of Drama). Richard was Artistic Director of Caird Company’s 5 Corners season of new British plays at the Jerwood Space and was Associate Director on the Young Vic’s touring production of Hobson’s Choice and the Tricycle Theatre’s production of Crossing Jerusalem.  He has worked as an Assistant Director at the RSC and at theatres throughout the country.

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