Rikki Beadle-Blair MBE is a writer, director, composer, choreographer, designer, producer and performer, working in film, theatre, television and radio. Having written and directed 40 plays over the last 20 years, along with several feature films, shorts and tv series, he has won several awards including the Sony Award, the Los Angeles Outfest Screenwriting and Outstanding Achievement awards. Rikki’s passion for encouraging wellness, creativity and business sense in others has made him a committed and effective mentor to a great many writers and directors around the world, including writer: Tom Wright and director/writer: Lynette Linton.

Rikki works extensively in theatre and has written 28 plays in the last decade that have been performed at Theatre Royal Stratford East, The Bush
Theatre, The Soho Theatre, The Tristan Bates Theatre and The Contact Theatre in Manchester, including Gutted, Bashment, Shalom Baby and the recent groundbreaking Summer In London written for an all trans cast of performers. He developed and directed many plays by upcoming writers such as #Hashtag Lightie by Lynette Linton, Stripped by Hannah Chalmers, Slap & Riot Act by Alexis Gregory plus My Dad’s Gap Year and Undetectable by Tom Wright. He is also known for his work on several feature films and TV series, including the American feature Blackbird starring Oscar-winning actress, Mo’nique, Stonewall for the Killer Films New York and BBC Films, Metrosexuality for Channel 4, Noah’s Arc for MTV LOGO as well as FIT, Kick Off and Bashment for his own company Team Angelica. Rikki has won several awards including the Sony Award, the Los Angeles Outfest Screenwriting and Outstanding Achievement awards and he is one of the creative directors of the Visionary Youth Project for young European Film Activists. Rikki has been a committed mentor to a great many writers, actors, composers and directors around the world including Noel Clarke, Lynette Linton, Somalia Seaton and Joe Cole.