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Ric Edelman (born Richard Edmunds; 24th April 1948) is a British playwright, screen writer and environmentalist. {{Infobox playwright|name=Ric Edelman|birth_name=Richard Edmunds|birth_date={{Birth date and age|1948|04|24}}|birth_place=Blackheath, London|occupation=Playwright|nationality=British|alma_mater=Kings College LondonBristol Old Vic Theatre School|spouse=Nigel Hughes|website={{URL|https://www.ric-edelman.co.uk/}}}} Early life and educationEdelman was born on 24th April 1948 in Blackheath, London. His birth name was Richard Edmunds. In 2005, on discovering his Jewish roots, Ric adopted his family’s original name of Edelman. His father’s side of the family came from Vilnius, Lithuania. He studied Biological Sciences at Kings College London, graduating with a BSc Hons in 1970. He then went on to study drama at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, graduating in 1973. [1] CareerTheatreFrom 1973-1976 Edelman worked as a professional actor. [2] During this time, he had also begun to write professionally, creating the play The Ghost of Plas Tegg House for a touring arm of Theatr Clwyd. Writing1977 marked the start of an intensive period of writing for Edelman. From 1978 to 1982 he was mentored by John Russell Brown, literary manager at the National Theatre. This included a National Theatre reading of Your Sorrow Shows (1978), directed by Nicholas Kent. In 1979 Edelman, sponsored by the National Theatre, was chosen for a 2 week Gulbenkian Writers’ Workshop. Edelman’s play with songs, The Electronic Lover, was adapted for BBC Radio 4 (1984), and directed by David Spencer [3]. Three fringe productions followed: Rissoles (1989) [4] and Warriors in the Wasteland (1990) [5] at the New End Theatre, Hampstead and Annabel’s Requiem (1996) at the Tower Theatre. In 1989 Edelman and his partner Nigel Hughes made an expedition to Papua New Guinea. This led them to co-write the book Trees of Paradise (Green Press 1991) [6] and to Edelman writing a 90 minute radio play Race of the Dugout Canoes (1995) broadcast on BBC Radio 4, directed by Andy Jordan [7]. Social and Environmental ActivismBetween 1981 and 1986, Edelman worked with young homeless people in central London: for the Short Stay Young Homeless Project, Alone in London Service, and Centrepoint. In 1990 Edelman and Hughes co-founded the charity Green Light Trust [8] in response to the deforestation they witnessed during their early expeditions to Papua New Guinea (1989-1993). Green Light Trust’s aim was to alert the indigenous population to what was happening in their forests and to their choices for the future, setting up self-sustaining projects to protect traditional ways of life and allow the indigenous population to remain independent of international corporations and large scale forestry [9]. Edelman and Hughes produced a series of environmental dramas with the Papua New Guinean Raun Isi theatre troop, which they toured to rainforest communities in the Hunstein Range, Upper Sepik by dugout canoe 1990-1993 [10]. As part of their efforts to improve environmental education in Great Britain, Edelman and Hughes developed a series of drama workshops which were taken into schools in 11 counties throughout England, Wales and Scotland. Edelman was operations director for the charity until 2010. Edelman, through Green Light Trust, produced Hunstein Range Report ‘Integrating Enterprise, Culture and Conservation in the Upper Sepik’ (1995) in collaboration with Paul Chatterton at the World Wide Fund for Nature and Denis Waliawi, Coordinator of Friends of the Sepik[11]. Current ProjectsIn 2010 Edelman returned to writing full time. His stage play Heath is currently under film option with [https://www.missinglinkfilms.co.uk/ Missing Link Films] [12]. References1. ^ Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat (programme booklet), Broadland Printing Co. Norwich, 1975 2. ^ Evans, Mike, (October 17th 1975), 'Fresh, inventive and vital story of greed', Chester Chronicle 3. ^[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2b1d3cde42f14917b2c6d9c0cf529e78 The Electronic Lover], Richard Edmunds, The Monday Play (January 9th 1984), BBC Radio 4 4. ^Renton, Alex, (June 21st 1989), 'Rissoles from the first Green production company', The Times 5. ^Taylor, Paul, (October 15th 1990), 'Some home truths', The Independent 6. ^[https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/6454440 Trees of Paradise], Richard Edmunds and Nigel Hughes, Malibu, CA : Green Press, 1991, {{ISBN|0963031201}} 7. ^ [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/9be529ad08754d8995e0e06dbdd68143 Race of the Dugout Canoes], Richard Edmunds, Saturday Playhouse (October 21st 1995), BBC Radio 4 8. ^ Green Light Trust 9. ^ Green Light Trust 10. ^ 'Actors plant hope to save rainforest' (October 17th 1991), THE STAGE and TELEVISION TODAY 11. ^ [https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/127240 Hunstein Range Report] 12. ^ [https://www.ric-edelman.co.uk/plays Heath Ric Edelman] External Links
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