FOR a writer with strong Huddersfield connections it comes as no surprise that Richard Bevan is keen to see his work aired on home territory in Yorkshire.
Richard, currently based in London, had a successful run earlier this year with a play called Trading Faces.
It ran at Kentish Town's Lion and Unicorn Theatre which has a varied fringe repertory and got both good reviews and an award-nomination.
With those plaudits added to an ever more successful cv, Richard is hunting out West Yorkshire producers who might be interested in staging a previous play that is set in Yorkshire.
“The play I’d like to see staged in Kirklees or nearby boroughs is called Cockeyed and involves relationships between a group of white and Asian characters,” he said.
“It's a gritty piece, set in the north, with a great deal of comedy running through it.”
Richard was born in Bradford but lived in the Huddersfield area for 15 years. He still has family in the area.
Though he went to film school and qualified as a film editor, Richard’s passion has always been for words.
That’s why he ended up as journalist and script-writer. He juggled work as a radio reporter for the BBC World Service before packing in the day job to write for theatre and television.
The hours Richard put in studying for an MA on screenwriting course in Leicester, had clearly paid off when he picked up a TV commission with a challenging storyline about the plight of a Transsexual for BBC`s daytime drama Doctors.
Those commissions continue, for TV and for magazine articles, but what Richard really wants is someone to feature this stage play on home turf. Any takers?
