Cameron, Richard

Richard Cameron was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. He taught for many years, was Director of Scunthorpe Youth Theatre from 1979 to 1988 and Head of Drama at the Thomas Sumpter School in Scunthorpe until 1991, then gave up teaching in order to write full-time. His plays include "Haunted Flowers", now retitled" Handle with Care" (National Student Drama Festival and Edinburgh Fringe Festival, 1985) which won the 1985 Sunday Times Playwriting Award; "Strugglers "(Battersea Arts Centre, 1988), which won the 1988 Sunday Times Playwriting Award; "The Moon's the Madonna" (NSDF, Edinburgh Fringe F...