Dick Johns – Writer
Dick Johns What Midlife Crisis? (One – man show) Chapter 2016
Campfire (Play) commissioned by NTW/Dirty Protest New Writers Festival 2016
The Question Game (Play) Gate Theatre 2012
After the Party (Play) Sherman Theatre Script Slam Winner 2013
Joy (Short Story) – Winner Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Award 2015
Dignity and Other Stories (Short Story collection) Self- published 2016
Dare to Dream Roadshow (Play) commissioned by Mess Up The Mess Theatre Company 2016
The 39 Steps – A Teaching Pack – commissioned by The Mousetrap Foundation 2003
In addition: many scripts, training guides and role play scenarios for the corporate sector.
**Critical appreciation:**
‘His writing brings with it a passionate sense of the value of human beings and of human experience; it is meant to be heard as well as read on the page; it is disturbing as well as valedictory, redemptive as well as interrogative’ Graham Mort, poet and author, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Lancaster.
About the Author
Dick is an actor and a writer. His acting credits in a career spanning 25 years include Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth for the English Shakespeare Company and Malvolio in Twelfth Night for York Theatre Royal. Television includes The Office, My Hero, High Hopes and Belonging (BBCTV) and Caerdydd (S4C). He has appeared in many Radio Dramas for Radios 3 and 4, and was for several years a compere on the comedy circuit. In 2016 his one-man show Dick Johns What Midlife Crisis? played to sell-out houses at Chapter, Cardiff; and the sequel Let’s Talk About Death, Baby will play at the same venue in September 2018. Dick is Lead Tutor at Young Actors Studio, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. He is a veteran pantomime Dame, most recently in Jack and the Beanstalk at Blackwood Miners Institute. Dick lives in Penarth with his wife and three children. As the writer Dick Johns he won the 2015 Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook Short Story Award for his story ‘Joy’. His short story collection Dignity and Other Stories is available to buy at www.dickjohns.co.uk