Rick Kemp has received numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic for his work as an actor and director. He has performed with leading British companies such as Theatre de Complicite, the Almeida, and The Oxford Playhouse, as well as touring his..
Rick Kemp has received numerous awards on both sides of the Atlantic for his work as an actor and director. He has performed with leading British companies such as Theatre de Complicite, the Almeida, and The Oxford Playhouse, as well as touring his solo clown show 'Coming Home' worldwide. A recipient of the French Government’s CROUS Award for Theatre, he was the Artistic Director of London-based Commotion Theatre Company from 1991 to 1998, has been nominated as a BAC Young British Director of the Year, holds an M.A. in English Literature from Oxford University, an M.F.A. in Performance Pedagogy and aPh.D. in Theater and Performance Studies, both from The University of Pittsburgh.
Professional work in the USA includes directing 'Hamlet' and 'Riddley Walker' at The Pittsburgh Playhouse, directing 'Shrew!' and 'The Comedy of Errors' for The Unseam’d Shakespeare Company, and acting in numerous shows for Quantum Theatre. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts to write and direct new works for Squonk Opera, and was a recipient of the Heinz Endowments Creative Heights Award. Recent international work includes performing 'Billy the Kid' at the prestigious Festival de Otono in Madrid, and collaborating with Dan Jemmet on Twelfth Night at the Teatr Polskski in Warsaw.
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