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Rupert has worked for over 30 years as a professional playwright and theatre director. He was
co-founder and Artistic Director of Hull-based Remould Theatre Company, writing a series of ‘oral
history’ documentary plays based on the working lives of fishermen, nurses, social workers,
the police and journalists, which toured nationally and internationally. He also wrote and directed large cast community plays for Howden, Hull & Bridlington in East Yorkshire, and has worked on large cast musical plays with inmates in prisons. In 2002 he wrote the Dorchester Community Play ‘Fire from Heaven’, which told the 17th century story of Reverend John White’s attempt to turn Dorchester into the most puritan town in England. Rupert has also written plays for Hull Truck Theatre Company, including ‘Every Time it Rains’ about the Hull floods of 2007, and ‘Slavers’, which in the same year, became the first play ever to be performed in the Houses of Parliament. Rupert has also written and presented a number of features for BBC Radio 4, including ‘Take the Money-Open the Box!’ a series focusing on risk-taking, that involved him attempting the flying trapeze, doing a stand-up comedy night in a London club, and skydiving out of a plane above the Lake District. He also worked for 3 years as a BBC producer on the digital storytelling project ‘Telling Lives’, and in 2005 was Regional Broadcast Coordinator on the BBC’s ‘Peoples War’ project in Manchester. He also works for Creative Partnerships, running writing and drama projects in schools, and is treasurer of the Writers Guild of Great Britain. Rupert has started work on a new community play for Dorchester that will be set in the late Victorian & Edwardian period, charting the town’s history in the period up to World War One.
