Richard Dyball (Writer)

James Albrecht (Director)

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Richard’s first show as a writer-performer, Minty Fresh, was directed by Neil Mullarkey and had a ‘Time Out Critic’s Choice’ run at BAC, London.  Since then he has co-written and performed Men’s Style and Fitness with Dominic Maxwell, six character comedy shows with Alastair Kerr and toured their Crouching Ferret, Hidden Beaver nationally. He has also written and performed with Joanna Neary.


As well as odds and sods on TV, he’s done one panto, Greek tragedy on a ship and been a spear carrier for Glyndebourne Opera which he wrote about in The Times.  He’s written six further theatre features for The Times and interviewed The Tweenies. Future plans include a new character comedy show called The Straight White Male, a new play written with David Stuttard and a book on English gardening. 

 
James is an actor and director. He trained and started his career in the United States and then at The Poor School.


UK Theatre acting credits include: The Duchess of Malfi (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Dracula (Touring Consortium), Stupidity (National Theatre Studio), Noises Off (National Theatre/ATG on tour and West End), Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 and the Rivals (RSC), Laughter in the Dark (The Other Place), Live from Golgotha (Drill Hall), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Bridewell), Passion Play (Tristan Bates), Hippolytus (AOD), My Life in Art  (Kings Head), The Grapes of Wrath (Finborough), The Promise (Edinburgh Fringe). He has performed his one-man show John Wayne, Mom, Apple Pie & Other Myths in London, Stratford and Newcastle.


US Theatre acting credits include: Mother Courage in New York for the September 11th Fund, The Sisters Rosensweig, Twelfth Night, Our Town, Romeo and Juliet, An African Antigone, and Nights of Carnival.


Film credits include: Pitch Perfect (BIFA nominated 2005), Night Call, Modern Monsters.


Television credits include: Murphy’s Law, Casualty, Clitheroe, A Touch of Frost.


Directing credits include: Two devised shows Urban Tale (The RSC Fringe at the Gate) and Gerontology (The Tristan Bates Theatre), Care Less (Theatre 503), two readings of Dream of the Dog with Janet Suzman and Sello Maake KaNcube (Tristan Bates Theatre and Oval House).  In July 2007, he was the Associate Director of the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, production of Dream of the Dog directed by Malcolm Purkey.  In April/May 2007 James directed a staged reading of The Trojan Trilogy – a trilogy of Greek plays including two rediscovered plays Alexandros and Palamedes and the surviving classic Trojan Women written by David Stuttard after Euripides.