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cloud ten productions is Matthew Ashforde, Richard Lumsden and Paul Savident.
Richard Lumsden
Richard Lumsden trained at the Guildford School of Acting, graduating in 1986.
Recent TV work includes Nathan in Channel 4’s Emmy award-winning drama Sugar Rush,
Party Animals and The Catherine Tate Show for the BBC. Other leading roles include Colin
in 3 series of Is It Legal? [ITV], Henry in Wonderful You [ITV], Foggy in 2 series of First Of
The Summer Wine, Charles in All About Me, Nutter in The Sharp End and Roger in The
House That Jack Built [all BBC]. Other TV appearances include The Croydon Poisonings,
Love Soup, Hornblower, People Like Us, Dangerfield, Coogan’s Run - Death Of A Salesman,
Nelson’s Column, Casualty, Chalk, Doctors, Waterfront Beat, Celeb, Brittas Empire, One
Foot In The Grave & Hardware. Forthcoming TV appearances on Suburban Shootout [C5]
& Comic Relief 2007.
Films include Sense and Sensibility, The Avengers, Room To Rent, Silent Cry, Gospel Of
John & Attila The Hun. On radio he plays Ray in Clare In The Community. Recent plays
include The Killing Of Dr Morgan and The Trouble With Caves for R4.
He performed his own one–man musical play The Fall & Rise of Lenny Smallman at the
Mill Theatre in Guildford in 2006 and previously in London at the Bridewell Theatre &
The Royal Academy of Music. His repertory theatre work at Stoke-on-Trent & Basingstoke
include Master Harold & The Boys, title role in Hamlet, As You Like It, King Lear, A Trip To
Scarborough, Amadeus, Juno And The Paycock, Far From The Madding Crowd, Having A Ball,
Roche in Rat In The Skull at Theater Exchange, Minneapolis USA, and John Thorpe in
Northanger Abbey at Greenwich.
His writing work includes a 7-hour drama Wonderful You for ITV [co-written with Chris Niel]
and three verse plays for Radio 4: John Dodd Gets Taken For A Ride [nominated for the BBC’s
Iverson award for new writing], A Good Place For Fishing with Anne Reid and Man in the Moon
with Tom Courtenay [The Guardian and Daily Telegraph's Pick-of-the-Week]. Performed
readings of his new play Skeletons have taken place at Soho Theatre and The Venue in London.
He has composed music for TV and theatre including a full musical score for Alice In Wonderland
at the New Victoria Theatre in Stoke, title music for The Morning Show [BBC] and incidental music
for Greg Wise’s BBC documentary about Jack Good. He has released a cd with his highly dedicated
[and woefully underpaid] band Henry Kissing Her - A Little of Who You Fancy [1996], a solo album
Pull [2006], and also released a CD of piano music Concert From The Eyrie [2001]. Richard is
currently writing the music for the forthcoming feature film “Morris”.