Richard White
Richard started in films, and worked as a film editor with Hugh Hudson, Ridley Scott and many household names. He cut Hugh Hudson's first feature film and Perry Henzel's The Harder They Come, the legendary Jamaican feature with Jimmy Cliff, winning the editing prize at the Cork Festival. He started his own company to edit science, current affairs and arts documentaries, for the BBC and film and television companies, winning many awards, but soon started writing and directing as well.
He went on to teach film and video at universities and independent colleges, to act as director and consultant on documentaries and dramas, and to write drama in the USA, Europe and the Caribbean.
He directed Farewell Miss Julie Logan by Rose MacLennan Craig, which ran to full houses at Greyfriars Kirk House during the Edinburgh Fringe, 2005, and later toured in Scotland. In November 2006 he co-wrote and directed Violet Jacob's Voices of Angus, which filled houses for the National Trust. In 2005 he directed Only Some can take the Strain from Possibilities by Howard Barker at the Morley College acting degree show, which also included Richard's short play, Evelyn Three. There was a reading of his play, The Jewish Mosque with Napoleon Ryan and Katy Darby in June 2003 at Player-Playwrights in central London. This play had another rehearsed reading with the New Works Company in Hammersmith, London, in April 2009, with Kevin Moore, Richard Walker and Olivia Hill, directed by C Jay Ranger. There have been several other private readings of Richard's plays. He wrote and performed part of an open air community show based on fairy stories in Bonnington Square Gardens, summer 2006. He directed studio performance of How to be Happy by Bonnington member Sue Blundell in America, October 2007. In July 2007 his play Choosing formed part of the Bonnington Playwrights production, The Quite Peculiar and Irresistible Charm of Ellen Terry, which played to packed houses in the medieval Barn Theatre at Smallhythe Place in Kent. This play has been revived at the magical Actors' Church in Covent Garden in October 2009, with a partly new cast and directed by Rob McIndoe, and had a successful run in a slightly revised version, with wonderful music from Simon Gutteridge.
There will be a rehearsed reading of Richard and Rose MacLennan Craig's play, The Myth Makers, on the 18th November 2009, at the Mendocino Art Center, Northern California, directed by Valerie MacMillan with David Wools as Capt Scott and Carter Sears as J.M. Barrie.
Richard is a member of The Bonnington Playwrights and with Rose MacLennan Craig of Celtic Circle. He is also a member of The London Playwrights Collective.