Richard Woolley

RICHARD WOOLLEY has been a film director, performer and musician and is still an active author (novelist and screenwriter) and academic (visiting professor).

In the 1960s, he played in a band called the Voodoo Strutters, in the 1970s he worked as an actor and musician for Red Ladder Theatre and in the1980s and 1990s recorded two CDs.

In the 1970s and 80s he also wrote and directed a number of films for cinema and television, and the British Film Institute recently (2021) re-released Wooley's collected films in a new edition of its boxset An Unflinching Eye with additional commentary tracks from the director. Films included: Telling Tales (1980), Brothers and Sisters (1981) and Girl from the South (1988).

He has written six novels - Back in 1984, Sad-eyed Lady of the Lowlands, Friends and Enemies, Sekabo, Stranger Love and, his most recent (2022), Detachment Theory.

He has lived in Berlin, Amsterdam, Hong Kong and New Zealand, as well as in his country of origin, England. He has been Director of the Dutch Film Academy, founding Dean of Film and TV at the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, inaugural holder of the Greg Dyke Chair of Film & Television at the University of York and Associate Dean of Performance, Media and English at Birmingham City University.

He now devotes most of his time to writing. His latest novel, Detachment Theory - an intricate and compelling psychological thriller set in NZ and the UK - was published in May 2022. He is currently working on a political thriller about a charismatic politician determined to achieve Peace On Earth.

More information can be found at www.richardwoolley.com