BRIGHTON THEATRE is a partnership between writer/actor Richard Crane and director/designer Faynia Williams. We are governed by a Board of Trustees.

FAYNIA WILLIAMS is a multi-ward winning international director and a BBC Producer of drama and documentaries with programmes on Joan Littlewood, Pina Bausch, Theatre in the Round, and the Moscow Art Theatre. She has worked with Tadeusz Kantor and Jozef Beuys, and with Roger Graef in Russia for Channel 4 TV. She has been Artistic Director of four theatres including the Tron, Glasgow, and Fellow in Theatre and Artist in Residence at Universities in the US and UK. She was Granada TV Artist in Residence at the University of California Davis, and directed King Lear with Jeffrey Dench at Texas A & M. She was invited to direct Gogol for the Britain Salutes New York Festival and a staged reading of Satan’s Ball with Tim Robbins at The Actors Gang in LA.  Actors, musicians, playwrights she has worked with include Alan Rickman, Mick Jagger, Harold Pinter, Liz Lochhead, Clarke Peters, Tom Courtenay, John Hurt, Wole Soyinka, Sian Phillips. She is Hon. President International Theatre Institute Dramatic Theatre Committee, and Former Chair Directors Guild GB. Faynia is a finalist for the League of Professional Theatre Women’s Gilder/Coigney International Theatre Award 2021.

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RICHARD CRANE is an actor and playwright, co-founder and Associate Director of Brighton Theatre. He was Resident Dramatist at the National Theatre; Literary Manager at the Royal Court; Fellow in Theatre, University of Bradford; Fellow in Creative Writing, University of Leicester; Visiting Writing Fellow, University of East Anglia, and Writer in Residence, HM Prison Bedford. Nine of his plays have won Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Awards, including Thunder, The Quest, Vanity, Pushkin and Satan's Ball. Other plays include Brothers Karamazov with Alan Rickman, Edinburgh Festival and West End; Mutiny!, with David Essex, Piccadilly Theatre London; Venus and Superkid Arts Theatre and Roundhouse London; The Possessed, with Yuri Lyubimov Odeon Paris, Almeida London; Gogol, Royal Court London, Traverse Edinburgh, Moscow, New York; Clownmaker, Edinburgh, London, New York; The Quiz, West End and national tour; Vlad the Impaler, BBC Radio with John Hurt, Oran Mor Glasgow and Brighton Festival, and Bloody Neighbours, National Theatre. Richard's plays are published by Heinemann, Samuel French and Oberon Books. His memoir Ghost Boy: a Playwright’s Progress is published 2020, https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08BX49L8X.