Edward Dick is a writer / director working across stage and screen.

Ed read English at Oxford University then trained as an assistant director with theatre company Cheek by Jowl. He has directed acclaimed theatre and opera productions across the UK and abroad. After studying screenwriting at NFTS, Ed recently completed his debut feature screenplay, a psychological drama set in Margate.

Ed’s first short film as director, An Act of Love, premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. As part of the BBC’s continuing drama training scheme he directed episodes of EastEnders, Holby City and Doctors, for which he received an RTS nomination for Outstanding New Talent. He joined Silent Witness as part of a Directors UK High End Drama training scheme, and regularly directs the show’s second unit.

Theatre directing credits include The Pitchfork Disney at the Arcola; The Fastest Clock in the Universe at Hampstead Theatre; A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Sydney Theatre Company; Our Country’s Good at Liverpool Playhouse; Gaslight at Salisbury Playhouse; Fewer Emergencies at the National Theatre, Prague; Twelfth Night at the Open Air Theatre, Regent’s Park; Romeo and Juliet at Shakespeare’s Globe and ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore at Southwark Playhouse.

His work in opera includes Tosca (Opera North, WNO and Opera Australia, TMA nomination for Outstanding Achievement in Opera); Carmen and Hansel and Gretel for Opera North; the world premiere of Tarik O’Regan’s Heart of Darkness (Royal Opera House – South Bank Show Award nomination); the UK premiere of Rossini’s Maometto Secondo (Garsington Opera); Ein Maskenball (Volkstheater Rostock); La Voix Humaine (Cheltenham Festival); The Rape of Lucretia (Aldeburgh) and The Turn of the Screw (King’s Head).