Richard Vincent (playwright)

Richard Vincent is an English playwright, theatre director and screenwriter.

Vincent trained as an actor at the Drama Centre, London. His first play, Off the Bone, was produced at the Courtyard Theatre in 1994. Real Estate was a selected play at the 1994 International Playwriting Festival at the Warehouse Theatre, Croydon and was produced at the Teatro Colosseo, Rome and developed into a screenplay by Granada Film. Vincent enjoys an ongoing relationship with the Warehouse Theatre: his plays Skin Deep and Happy and Glorious have been produced there and he is Associate Director and head of their writers' workshop. Vincent also has a close relationship with the Croydon Youth Theatre Organisation (CYTO), where he has been a tutor, director and artistic director. Vincent met his wife, Kathryn, at CYTO. In 2005, CYTO celebrated its 40th birthday with a production of Vincent's specially written play, Ruby, which he also co-directed.

Vincent's play The Lost was produced on BBC Radio 4 starring Bob Peck. He has also written for the BBC drama, Casualty, and several screenplays for the UK Film Council, including a feature-length animated movie, Fizzle.

Works

Off the Bone (1994), first produced Courtyard Theatre, London
Real Estate (1994)
- translated into Italian as Proprietà Privata (1995), first produced Teatro Colosseo, Rome
These Things Stay (1996)
Sole (1998), first produced Bridewell Theatre, London
The Lost, first produced for BBC Radio 4
Happy and Glorious (1999), first produced Warehouse Theatre, London
Skin Deep (2002), first produced Warehouse Theatre, London
Ruby (2005), first produced CYTO, Shoestring Theatre, London