Richard Harris/Adaptation
Theatrical successes include Outside Edge which transferred from the Hampstead Theatre to the Queen’s Theatre (Evening Standard award), The Business of Murder which ran for seven years at the Duchess and Mayfair Theatres, Stepping Out at the Duke of York’s Theatre (Evening Standard Comedy of the Year award, and Moliere award for the Paris production), and The Maintenance Man at the \Comedy Theatre. His play Visiting Hour was performed as a platform production at the National Theatre. Dead Guilty played at the Apollo Theatre and his version of Ibsen’s Ghosts was produced at the Comedy Theatre, starring Francesca Annis and Anthony Andrews. He has co-written two musicals. Stepping Out and Large as Life. His play Surviving Spike, based on the book Spike, an Intimate Memoir, by Norma Farnes, is to be produced later this year. He has written many plays for television, has contributed to countless television series and co-created the series Shoestring and Man in a Suitcase. His script Searching for Senor Duende won him the New York Television Festival Gold award for best writer. He wrote the first ten hours of A Touch of Frost and a comedy-drama series based on his play Outside Edge, for which he won the Writers’ Guild Best Comedy award, the British Comedy award for Best Series and the Television and Radio Industries award for Best Comedy. His latest work, a series called The Last Detective.adapted from the books by Leslie Thomas.is now in its fourth series. His radio play Was It Something I Said? was winner of the Giles Cooper award. |
