About Me

Richard T. Watson is a writer, director, critic, artistic director, marketing/admin intern, recent graduate and a worrier.
Winner of the Theatre Record Young Theatre Critic 2007, the Sunday Times Harold Hobson Student Drama Critic 2009.
His scripts have won International Student Playscript Competition 2010 and been shortlisted for the inaugural T F Evans Award.
Other scripts of his have been staged at the Birmingham Rep Theatre, the Stephen Joseph Theatre and Hull Truck Theatre.
He has been published by Noises Off, Hullfire, ThreeWeeks (also as sub-editor), Leaf Books, Eclectic Eel zine, FringeReview, callthatashow.com, thepublicreviews.com, The Observer Review, OpinionPanel, Sabotage Reviews (also Fiction Editor) and the BookBag.
He is currently Artistic Director and co-founder of the Merge Arts Festival.