RICHARD
BEECHAM (Director)
BEECHAM (Director)
Richard read English at Oxford University and trained as a theatre director at RADA/King’s College London, at the National Theatre Studio and on the Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme. He is an Artistic Associate of Wilton’s Music Hall and a Fellow of the Clore Leadership Programme.
Photo by The Other Richard |
THEATRE
Duet For One (with Tara Fitzgerald & Maureen Beattie) | Orange Tree | |
Footfalls/Rockaby (with Dame Sian Phillips & Charlotte Emmerson) | Jermyn Street/Theatre Royal, Bath | Best Production nomination Off West End Theatre Awards |
Gaslight | Watford Palace | |
84 Charing Cross Road (with Clive Francis & Stefanie Powers) | Cambridge Arts Theatre & Tour | |
Broken Glass | Watford Palace | Best Director nomination Off West End Theatre Awards |
Driving Miss Daisy (with Dame Sian Phillips & Derek Griffiths) | Theatre Royal, Bath & Tour | |
Rose (with Dame Janet Suzman) | Home, Manchester | Best Production nomination Manchester Theatre Awards |
Playing for Time (with Dame Sian Phillips) | Sheffield Crucible Main House | |
Dancing at Lughnasa | Theatre Royal, Northampton | Best Production nomination UK Theatre Awards |
In A Garden | Ustinov Studio, Bath | |
Red Light Winter | Ustinov Studio, Bath | |
Henry IV Part 1 | Theatre Royal, Bath (Peter Hall Season) | |
In Praise of Love | Theatre Royal, Northampton | |
Rutherford & Son | Northern Stage | |
Humble Boy (with Lesley Joseph) | Theatre Royal, Northampton | |
The Human Cost | Young Vic | |
National Event Holocaust Memorial Day | Theatre Royal, Newcastle | |
The School for Scandal | Salisbury Playhouse | |
The Invention of Love | Salisbury Playhouse | |
Side by Side by Sondheim | Salisbury Playhouse | |
The Miser | Salisbury Playhouse | |
Charley’s Aunt | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | |
Just Before the War | Young Vic | |
Private Lives | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | |
Two Gentleman of Verona | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | |
How the Other Half Loves | Watford Palace | |
Black Comedy/ Real Inspector Hound | Northcott Theatre, Exeter | |
Romeo & Juliet | Creation Theatre Company, Oxford | |
Neville’s Island | Watford Palace | |
A Taste of Honey | Watford Palace | |
The Bench | Battersea Arts Centre | |
Early One Morning | Bolton Octagon | |
Entertaining Mr Sloane | Bolton Octagon | Best Production Nomination MEN Awards |
Eulogy for a Hard Man | Live Theatre, Newcastle | |
The History of Miss Fortune | C-Theatre, Edinburgh |
Drama Schools & Universities
Much Ado About Nothing | Cambridge Arts Theatre | |
She Stoops to Conquer | LAMDA | |
Stars in the Morning Sky | LAMDA | |
Her Naked Skin | LAMDA | |
Strivers | LAMDA | |
Faustus | LAMDA | |
The Workroom | RADA | |
Love & Information | Central | |
The Libertine | Arts Ed | |
Tory Boyz | Arts Ed | |
Our Town | Arts Ed | |
Roberto Zucco | Arts Ed | |
A Little Like Drowning | Arts Ed | |
A Month in the Country | Arts Ed | |
The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd | Arts Ed | |
The Children's Hour | Arts Ed | |
Touched | Oxford School of Drama | |
Our Town | Oxford School of Drama | |
Widows | Oxford School of Drama | |
Much Ado About Nothing | University of Cambridge, Marlow Society | |
A Midsummer Night's Dream | University of South Florida | |
Our Town | Northumbria Unversity |
Rehearsed Readings
The Shroud Maker (with Kathryn Hunter) | HOME Manchester | |
The Promise (with Oliver Ford-Davies) | JW3 | |
Emilia Galotti (with Claire Foy) | National Theatre Studio | |
The Workroom | National Theatre Studio | |
The Masked | National Theatre (Dorfman) | |
He's Talking | National Theatre Connections | |
Tosca's Kiss (with Harold Pinter) | Theatre Royal Haymarket |
Film
The Guitar | Eye to Eye Productions/Meerkat Films | Winner UKJF short film competition |