Artists

Richard James-Neale

Training

Richard is an actor, movement director and director who trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London.

Theatre Includes

His work as an actor includes The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Bridge Theatre); King Lear (US Tour); Wings (Young Vic); The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Watership Down (Watermill Theatre); Peter Pan (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Othello (Frantic Assembly); Emil and the Detectives (National Theatre); Pygmalion (Old Vic).

TV and Event Work Includes

Call the Midwife (BBC); the feature films The Batman and The Legend of Tarzan (Warner Bros.) and the Opening Ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games.

Movement and Directing Work Includes

Richard’s work as a practitioner for Frantic Assembly sees him directing residencies and teaching the company’s devising methods to emerging theatre makers all over the UK and internationally. His work as a Movement and Fight Director includes More Than Skin Deep (The Verbatim Formula); Jekyll and Hyde (Box Clever); Common Lore (Stute Theatre/Northern Broadsides); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Faction); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Tooting Arts Club). His work as an Associate Director includes The Passenger and Belt Up (Box Clever).