Richard Crane

RICHARD CRANE is an actor and playwright. Read GHOST BOY for details of his first 30 years. Thereafter, he was Resident Dramatist at the National Theatre; Literary Manager at the Royal Court; Fellow in Creative Writing, University of Leicester; Visiting Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia; Lecturer in Creative and Dramatic Writing, University of Sussex and Writer in Residence, HM Prison Bedford. Nine of his plays have won Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Awards, including Thunder, The Quest, Vanity, Satan’s Ball, Pushkin, Rolling the Stone. Other plays include Brothers Karamazov, starring Alan Rickman, Edinburgh Festival and West End; Mutiny!, with David Essex, Piccadilly Theatre London; Venus and Superkid with Milton Reame-James, Arts Theatre and Roundhouse London; The Possessed, with Yuri Lyubimov and Alfred Schnittke, Odeon Paris, Almeida London; Gogol, Royal Court London, Traverse Edinburgh, Moscow, New York; Clownmaker, Edinburgh, London, New York and Bloody Neighbours, National Theatre. He is co-Founder and Associate Director of Brighton Theatre. He is married to the director Faynia Williams. They have four children and four grandchildren. Richard's plays are published by Heinemann, Chappell's Music, Samuel French and Oberon Books; recordings by Phonogram, Telstar and Stage Door Records. He lives in Brighton.