Richard Hough

Bookwriter ● Creative ● Lyricist ● Playwright ● Writer

Richard is managed by JBR

 

Richard Hough is a playwright and librettist who started his career as a comedian and
comedy writer.

Richard’s new musical The Sorcerer’s Apprentice will have its premiere at Home in Manchester
over the festive period, 2026.

His plays include Firebird, a story of fighter pilots and forbidden love on a Soviet Airbase in
Estonia (The King’s Head Theatre, dir. Owen Lewis); a gender-swapped reimagining of
Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice; a lustful tale of female vampires and vengeance, Blood Orange; and a murder-mystery inspired by Gaston Leroux’s The Yellow Room.

Richard has written book and lyrics for several musicals including: Graham Greene’s Our
Man In Havana (Watermill Theatre, dir. Abigail Pickard Price); Billy the Kid (For the
NYMT / Leicester Curve, dir. Kate Golledge); Sin (Barn Theatre, Cirencester, dir. Charlotte
Westenra) and A Christmas Carol (Castle Theatre, Wellingborough, dir. Luke Sheppard).

As a comedy writer, Richard contributed jokes and sketches to a number of BBC TV and
radio shows. iCredits include Revolver, The Now Show, Loose Ends, What’s the
Story? and The News Quiz. With producer Ben Walker, he developed a sitcom, Mad
About the Boy and a darkly comic sketch-show, The Chiller Cabinet, for Radio 4. For
Ealing Studios, he wrote about the indomitability of the human spirit in Dumber &
Dumber (Channel 5).

 

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