Richard Shannon
Richard currently teaches
radio undergraduate courses as an associate lecturer and is also
a specialist tutor in radio drama, sound design and scriptwriting.
Richard was educated
at Westminster City School, completed a Short Service Limited Commission
in the Royal Artillery and read English at New College, Oxford.
He went on to study theatre direction at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre
School. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Council
Member of the Directors’ Guild of GB.
Richard
is currently working on an adaptation of Smile as They Bow by Nu
Nu Yi for the Burmese Theatre workshop and a new play about Iran.
He is
a director of Shannon and Clark Productions Ltd. His credits for
the company include writing/directing for the Royal Opening of St.
Pancras International starring Tim West. His other recent projects
include, writing a short film to launch the super cruiser Ventura,
starring Jonathan Pryce, Samantha Bond, Roger Moore, Peter Firth
and Patricia Hodge.
Richard
was Co-director with Tim Crook, of Independent Radio Drama Productions
based at LBC Radio. His production of Paul Sirett’s Vissi D’Arte
was Highly Commended at the Prix Italia. He has directed work by
Simon Beaufoy and Martin McDonagh and a number of classic serials
for National Public Radio (USA) including The Hound of the Baskervilles
starring Edward Petherbridge and Dracula starring Don Henderson
and Kenneth Haigh. In 2005, he directed Chuckwudubelu – Preserved
of God by Justin Butcher, starring Ben Okafor for BBC Radio 4.
His credits
as writer/director also include: The Lady of Burma (The story of
Aung San Suu Kyi), which premiered at the Old Vic in London and
went on to the Assembly Rooms for the Edinburgh Festival 2007, ran
in London at the Riverside Studios and toured nationally. The play
has been published by Oberon Modern Plays. It was performed at Teatr
Polonia in Warsaw and the Centre for Film and Drama in Bangalore
in 2009 and in 2010 it opened at Det Norske Teatret in Oslo.
Richard was a Visiting
Lecturer at Goldsmiths’ College in both the Drama and Media and
Communications Departments from 1990-97 and a Senior Lecturer at
London Southbank University from 1999-2005.
www.richardshannon.co.uk
