Richard C. Vergette is a British playwright, actor and drama teacher. In 2013 his ''American Justice'', an American congressman's encounter with his daughter's killer, was shown at London's

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. His 2015 ''Dancing Through the Shadows'' was performed by

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as part of a trilogy about the history of

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, and his ''PURE'', about the

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industry, was one of

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's two 2016 productions. He has been Head of the Faculty of Performing Arts at

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and a lecturer at the

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, written textbooks for school drama students, and acted in the 2010 short film ''The Legend of Beggar's Bridge''. He was Director of Drama and Head of Learning and Teaching at

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, a Quaker school in West Yorkshire, until his retirement in 2018. He performed his own one-man play ''Leaving Vietnam'' at the Park Theatre in London in 2023 and at the C Arts Studio in Edinburgh in 2024. It has been published by Aurora Books (2023, )

Early life

Vergette was born in

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, Lincolnshire. He graduated with a

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(BA) in Drama from

Bretton Hall College Bretton Hall College of Education was a higher education college in West Bretton in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England. It opened as a teacher training college in 1949 with awards from the University of Leeds. The college merged with the Uni ...

in 1985. He later pursued a

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(MEd) at the

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. He also studied at the

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(LAMDA). He is associate director of

-based theatre company Ensemble 52.

Plays

Date and place of first production as shown in doollee.com *''An Englishman's Home'' (2007, 24:7 Theatre Festival, Manchester) *''Ring Around the Humber'' (2011,

) *''Nice'' (2011, Salford Studio Theatre) *''American Justice'' (2013,

, London), based on his 2009 work ''As We Forgive Them'' *''Dancing Through the Shadows'' (2015,

) *''PURE'' (2016,

) * ''Leaving Vietnam'' (2023, Park Theatre, London)

Publications

*''Drama & Theatre Studies: AQA Advanced'' (2008, Philip Allen, ) *''Edexcel advanced drama and theatre studies textbook'' (2008, Philip Allen, )

References

External links

Richard Vergette on LinkedIn
* ''Details of Vergette's plays''

* Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of the University of Lincoln Actors from Cleethorpes Alumni of Bretton Hall College Alumni of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art Alumni of the University of Nottingham English dramatists and playwrights Male actors from Lincolnshire Writers from Lincolnshire {{UK-playwright-stub