Andrew Dallmeyer was a Scottish playwright, theatre director and actor.
21 Facts About Andrew Dallmeyer
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Andrew Dallmeyer wrote over 75 plays, including the Opium Eater and directed more than 50 productions.
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Andrew Dallmeyer's plays have won a number of awards, including a Scottish BAFTA, and they have been played on BBC Radio.
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Andrew Dallmeyer was born on 10 January 1945 in St Boswells in Roxburghshire, Scotland.
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Andrew Dallmeyer spent most of his childhood in Aberlady, East Lothian where he was a keen Hibernian FC supporter.
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Andrew Dallmeyer learnt drama at the Webber Douglas School of Singing and Dramatic Art, London.
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Andrew Dallmeyer's father served in the British Army during the Second World War and was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Order.
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Andrew Dallmeyer, described as a veteran actor and playwright, began his theatre work in the 1960s as an actor in Bristol Old Vic and Nottingham Playhouse performances.
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Andrew Dallmeyer subsequently directed many productions at the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh, Sheffield Crucible, Dundee Rep, Leeds Playhouse and several more.
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Andrew Dallmeyer was commissioned by the Baron of Prestongrange and has written a number of plays for him.
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Andrew Dallmeyer won three Fringe First awards as well as a BAFTA Scotland Award for the Best Radio Play of 1985 in Scotland.
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Much of Andrew Dallmeyer's work has not been published or put into print and therefore he holds the only copy of many plays.
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Andrew Dallmeyer believes The Opium Eater is somewhat autobiographical in nature as it is about a writer trying to find inspiration.
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The plays were written in celebration of Scottish playwrights and Andrew Dallmeyer's play was fifth in the series.
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Andrew Dallmeyer's one-man show, titled Hello Dali, based on artist Salvador Dali won a Fringe First award and has previously starred Sylvester McCoy and Neil Cunningham.
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In 1986, Andrew Dallmeyer wrote The Grand Edinburgh Fire Balloon as a piece of commissioned work for the Royal Lyceum Theatre.
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Andrew Dallmeyer wrote and performed in his controversial 50-minute one-man play, Wanted Dead or Alive, in which Osama bin Laden is Santa Claus in a shopping mall.
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Andrew Dallmeyer defended the play, stating "I am not trying to create a sensation; it is just that I feel the piece is strong".
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The play featured "strongly anti-American sentiments and condemns United States foreign policy" and despite the backlash Andrew Dallmeyer has performed it over 100 times.
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Andrew Dallmeyer wrote the musical Burns Supper, in collaboration with composer David Todd, inspired by the bard Robert Burns.