Mr Richard. A.D. Cheshire
Theatre Practitioner
B.A. (Hons), University of Wales, Aberystwyth. P.G.C. E. (with distinction)
Contact
Email: rac@aber.ac.uk
Office: S11 Parry Williams Building
Phone: 01970 622837
Fax: 01970 622831
Responsibilities
Curriculum Leader for Theatre, Performance and Scenographic Studies. Director of Teaching and Learning (from July 2012).
Additional Information
Richard is currently External Examiner for Drama and Theatre Arts at Stafford University.
Knowledge Transfer
Richard has recently won funding from the E.S.F. (in conjunction with C.C.S) for TFTS staff to implement two work- based learning modules to be delivered at postgraduate level. The first module Professional Mentoring and Creative Development for practitioners working in the Creative Arts is scheduled to run from September 2012- January 2013. The second module Creative Company Development for Theatre Directors, Designers, Performers and Technicians will run from April – September 2013 and will be taught in conjunction with colleagues at The School of Management and Business Studies and Aberystwyth Arts Centre. For further details about either of the modules, please contact Richard (Project Director) on rac@aber.ac.uk or Rebecca Edwards (Project Manager) on rje@aber.ac.uk Richard’s knowledge transfer work also includes many short courses on acting and directing methodologies at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre and various venues throughout the U.K. He recently ran two highly successful summer schools at the Universities of Swansea and Aberystwyth for the Drama Association of Wales on Acting for the Stage and Performing Shakespeare. He was also invited to direct Moll Flanders (adapted by Claire Luckham and George Stiles) in Virginia U.S.A.
Biography
As an experienced professional theatre director, Richard has worked extensively as a performer and director in professional, community, student and amateur theatre. His recent Departmental productions include As You Like It, The Rover, Cymbeline, Coran Boy and Female Stage Beauty and recent community theatre productions include The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, The Crucible, Amadeus and The Importance of Being Earnest. For the 2012/13 Session, Richard will be working with third year students on His Dark Materials based on the novels by Philip Pullman, adapted by Nichola Wright and directing past graduates and present students in Jezz Butterworth’s Jerusalem.
He was Associate Director at The Royal Theatre Northampton where he directed Congreve’s Way of the World, Langford Wilson’s Talley’s Folly, John Godber’s Teechers and Phil Young’s Crystal Clear and performed in the Royal’s centenary production of Cinderella, which was featured in the launch of the The Guardian’s weekend magazine. He has been instrumental in establishing the professional Summer Season musical productions at Aberystwyth Arts Centre where his favourite productions included Godspell, My Fair Lady, Guy’s and Doll’s, Singing in the Rain, Me and My Girl and Crazy for You. In 2006 Cameron Mackintosh chose Aberystwyth Arts Centre to try out his new orchestrations for Oliver (directed by Richard) which subsequently became the prototype for repertory companies across the U.K.