Richard Bean
- Writer and executive producer
Press clippings
Big Boys, Dead Canny and Derry Girls creators up Writers' Guild awards
Jack Rooke (Big Boys), Anna Costello (Dead Canny) and Lisa McGee (Derry Girls) are amongst the nominees for the Writers' Guild of Great Britain awards 2023
British Comedy Guide, 6th December 2022Him & Her's Kerry Howard & Russell Tovey reunite for dark Sky comedy
Him & Her stars Kerry Howard and Russell Tovey have written and star in Both Sides Now for Sky.
British Comedy Guide, 4th July 2022Writer Richard Bean on his new film The Duke
Hull-born and now Stratford-based playwright has written some of the most exciting recent plays in British Theatre, including the hugely succcessful One Man Two Guvnors. As new film The Duke opens this week, he tells Gill Sutherland about living in a squat, trying stand up and where he gets his funnybones from.
Gill Sutherland, Stratford Herald, 26th February 2022Movie review: The Duke
Comfortingly old-fashioned and cosy comedy fare.
Damon Smith, Breaking News Ireland, 25th February 2022The Duke review
Roger Michell's final feature retells story of the cussed Newcastle pensioner who stole a Goya portrait in protest at government spending priorities.
Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 23rd February 2022Ken Dodd comedy drama in the works for ITV
Doddy, a comedy drama centred around Ken Dodd's 1989 trial for tax evasion, is in development for ITV.
British Comedy Guide, 24th March 2021The Duke review
Jim Broadbent steals the show in Ealing-style heist comedy.
Raphael Abraham, The Financial Times, 7th September 2020The Hypocrite review
It took approximately 55 seconds for the first wave of laughter to roll around the audience, and it carried on more or less until the end of this brilliant, wild, satirical comedy.
Richard Bean, British Theatre Guide, 7th April 2017Review of The Mentalists starring Stephen Merchant
Two-hander 2002 The Mentalists is hardly top-drawer Richard Bean, and is the sort of thing I'd have expected to see revived at the smaller studio spaces at either the Park or the Southwark Playhouse, not one of the West End's most prestigious, heavily booked theatres.
Mark Shenton, London Theatre Guide, 14th July 2015One Man, Two Guvnors to be tweaked for Broadway
Hit comedy One Man, Two Guvnors has had a sell-out run at the National Theatre, toured the UK and is now in the West End, prior to a Broadway transfer. But the job is not yet over for playwright Richard Bean.
BBC News, 22nd November 2011