Rikki Beadle-Blair
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Richard Barrington "Rikki" Beadle-Blair MBE (born 25 July 1961) is a British actor, director, and playwright.[1] He is the artistic director of multi-media production company Team Angelica.[1]
Early life
Beadle-Blair was born in Camberwell and raised in Bermondsey, both in south London, by a single mother, Monica.[1] Rikki was brought up with a brother, Gary Beadle (also an actor, of Eastenders fame),[1] and a sister.[1] He attended Lois Acton's Experimental Bermondsey Lampost Free School[1] and, later, Old Vic Youth Theatre.[1]
Career
Beadle-Blair wrote the screenplay for the 1995 feature film Stonewall (dir. Nigel Finch, 1995).[2] He adapted his own screenplay of Stonewall for the stage and his production company Team Angelica, which he took to the 2007 Edinburgh Festival. He also directed, produced, designed both sets & costumes, & choreographed on the show. The play was nominated for "Best Ensemble" at The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence.[3]
In Autumn 2007, FIT, a play for young people commissioned by the Manchester-based arts organisation queerupnorth and the gay equality organisation Stonewall, went on tour around the UK. The play was developed to help tackle homophobic bullying in Britain's schools.[4] Beadle-Blair subsequently adapted it into a film (2010).[5]
Beadle-Blair was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to drama.[6]
Selected plays
- Kick-Off – January 2009, Riverside Studios
- Fit (Autumn 2008) adapted for film in 2010[7][8]
- Home – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008)
- Touch – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008)
- Screwface – Tristan Bates Theatre (June 2008).
- Familyman – Theatre Royal Stratford East (May 2008, directed by Dawn Reid). Text published by Oberon Books.
- FIT (2007) – National Tour – adapted for film
- Stonewall (2006/7) – stage adaptation of the BBC film.
- Taken In (2005) – Set in a halfway house for homeless youths.
- Bashment (2005) – explores the controversy around dancehall reggae music and the consequences of homophobic lyrics – Theatre Royal Stratford East. Text published by Oberon Books.
- Totally Practically Naked in My Room on a Wednesday Night (2005) – a night in the life of 17-year-old Dylan, desperate to lose his virginity.
- South London Passion Plays trilogy (Gutted,[9] Laters and Sweet) (2004) – Tristan Bates Theatre
- Captivated (1997) – the story of a gay black man imprisoned for murder. Shane corresponds with an Asian pen pal who writes him as an act of charity. Shane's self-hatred turns into a soul-searching journey from cockiness to agonised self-reflection, and finally ultimate gratitude for his unseen friend.
- Ask and Tell – homosexuality and the Army.
- twothousandandSex – an ensemble play about sex and sexuality featuring 35 actors – at the Drill Hall Theatre.
Four one-hour ensemble plays
- Exposures
- Street Art
- The Grope Box
- Fucking Charlie
- Below the Radar – a straight guy/gay guy pair of roommates and their sexual misadventures in New Orleans.
- Human – two terminally ill cancer patients get together for a final riotous love affair.
- Prettyboy – described as a 'Dogma Style Musical" at the Oval House Theatre.
- Gunplay (he did not direct)
- Wild at Heart Riverside Studios (1988)
Radio/Audio
Roots of Homophobia (writer/presenter, Radio 4, 2001) an exploration of Jamaican homophobia.[10] It won a 2002 Sony Best Feature Award.[11]
Whoopsie (writer; directed by Turan Ali for Bona Broadcasting/Radio 4, 2021) - gay comedy-drama, 28 mins.[12]
Scooters, Shooters & Shottas: a Curious Tale (director, written by John R Gordon, a Team Angelica/The Art Machine co-production, 2022) - a 40 minute podcast drama of raucous Black queer lives in 'the endz' of South London.[13]
Team Angelica
In 2011 with long term creative partner John R. Gordon, Beadle-Blair founded Team Angelica Publishing, a queer-of-colour-centric press.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Their first book was Beadle-Blair's inspirational What I Learned Today.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". They have since published gay Somali Diriye Osman's groundbreaking short story collection, Fairytales For Lost Children, which won the Polari prize in 2014,[14] and Gordon's Drapetomania, favourably reviewed in the Financial Times,[15] which won the Ferro-Grumley Award for Best LGBTQ Fiction in 2019.[16] Most recently they published Larry Duplechan's memoir through his love of film, Movies That Made Me Gay (2024).[17]
Publications
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- Bashment (playtext) Oberon Books 2005 Template:ISBN
- Family Man (playtext) Oberon Books 2008 Template:ISBN
- Fit (playtext) Oberon Books 2010 Template:ISBN
- What I Learned Today (inspirational) Team Angelica Publishing 2011 Template:ISBN
- Shalom, Baby (playtext) Oberon Books 2011 Template:ISBN
- Reasons to Live (inspirational) Team Angelica Publishing 2012 Template:ISBN
- Gutted (playtext) Oberon 2013 Template:ISBN
- Black & Gay in the UK (co-editor) Team Angelica Publishing 2014 Template:ISBN
- More Than (co-editor) Team Angelica Publishing 2016 Template:ISBN
- Summer in London (playtext) Team Angelica Publishing 2017 Template:ISBN
- Sista! (co-editor) Team Angelica Publishing 2018 Template:ISBN
- Mother Country: Real Stories of the Windrush Children (anthology: contributor) Headline 2019 Template:ISBN
- Oberon Book of Modern Monologues for Women: Teens to Thirties (anthology: contributor) Oberon 2022 Template:ISBN
- Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre (anthology: contributor) Methuen 2022 Template:ISBN
See also
References
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External links and sources
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- 1961 births
- 20th-century English LGBTQ people
- 21st-century English LGBTQ people
- Actors from the London Borough of Southwark
- Black British LGBTQ people
- Black British male actors
- English gay actors
- English gay musicians
- English gay writers
- English LGBTQ singers
- English people of Jamaican descent
- Gay dancers
- Gay singers
- LGBTQ people from London
- LGBTQ television directors
- LGBTQ theatre directors
- Living people
- Members of the Order of the British Empire
- National Youth Theatre members
- People from Bermondsey
- People from Camberwell
- Singers from the London Borough of Southwark