Derrick John Goodwin was an English theatre and television director, writer and producer.
18 Facts About Derrick Goodwin
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Derrick Goodwin had a BA in music and undertook national service in the Royal Air Force.
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Derrick Goodwin was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre.
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Derrick Goodwin founded The Living Theatre Company with Ken Loach, Jill Gascoine and Brian Grellis, converting an old school in Leicester into a 200-seat open stage theatre.
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Derrick Goodwin directed over a hundred theatre productions including plays by Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Anton Chekhov and several of his own plays, including four plays for children.
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Derrick Goodwin returned to the Royal Court to assist David William in the production of Luigi Pirandello's Naked and then was invited to become assistant director at the Open Air Theatre Regent's Park.
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Derrick Goodwin was then appointed Artistic Director of the Dundee Repertory Theatre.
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Derrick Goodwin was then appointed Artistic Director of the Ipswich Arts Theatre.
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John Neville was about to become Artistic Director of the new Nottingham Playhouse, he wanted to re-open the Newcastle Playhouse and asked Derrick Goodwin to become its director.
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When John Neville decided to leave the Nottingham Playhouse, Derrick Goodwin resigned and joined the BBC television drama department, where he directed episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre and Z-Cars.
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Derrick Goodwin then became a freelancer and with Rodney Bewes co-wrote and directed several series of Dear Mother.
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Derrick Goodwin directed the tour of My Fat Friend for Michael Codron Ltd and the tour of Relatively Speaking for the Oxford Playhouse.
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Derrick Goodwin was then invited by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to set up a new drama and entertainment department in Winnipeg.
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Derrick Goodwin returned to England and directed many productions for the BBC, London Weekend Television, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television.
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Derrick Goodwin was commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn to write a play, Abiding Passions, which was directed by Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough.
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Derrick Goodwin later concentrated on writing for theatre and TV and teaching theatre, television and film.
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Derrick Goodwin won many awards for theatre and television productions and was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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Derrick Goodwin wrote a novel, I Got You Babe, which is available as a free e-book.