Richard is a playwright and librettist who started his career as a comedian and comedy writer. Stage credits include FIREBIRD, a story of fighter pilots and forbidden love on a Soviet airbase at the height of the Cold War (King’s Head), a gender-swapped reimagining of Thomas Mann’s Death In Venice; a lustful tale of female vampires and vengeance, Blood Orange; and a murder-mystery inspired by Gaston Leroux’s The Yellow Room. Richard has written book and lyrics for several musicals including: Our Man in Havana (Watermill), Billy The Kid (NYMT at Curve), Sin (Barn Cirencester) and A Christmas Carol (Castle Wellingborough). As a comedy writer, Richard contributed jokes and sketches to a number of BBC TV and radio shows (his credits include ‘Revolver’, ‘The Now Show’, ‘Loose Ends’, ‘What’s the Story?’ and ‘The News Quiz’). With producer Ben Walker, he developed a sitcom (‘Mad About The Boy’) and a darkly comic sketch-show (‘The Chiller Cabinet’) for Radio 4. For Ealing Studios, he wrote about the indomitability of the human spirit in ‘Dumber & Dumber’ (Channel 5). He is the author of ‘You Can Save The Planet’, a young person’s guide to ecology, written for Guardian Books and published by A & C Black. 

Alexander’s stage credits include the musical revue I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (which has enjoyed many international productions and garnered two West End Wilma Awards, an EFFTA Award, nine further award nominations, and over 60 five-star reviews), music and songs for theatre productions such as Spitting Image (West End, Birmingham Rep), Plague Over England (West End), and the much-toured Murder On Air, musicals (including The Route To Happiness, Thirteen Days and the multi-award-winning Shadowless) that have been produced in London, around the UK and across the world, spawning numerous cast recordings. His credits also include one of the Old Vic’s 24 Hour Musicals, with Cynthia Erivo; and many comic songs for BBC Radio 4 and the BBC World Service. Alexander’s songs have been recorded and released by dozens of international musical theatre artists, and he topped iTunes’s comedy album chart with Wit & Whimsy, an album celebrating his comedic work which features 23 popular personalities and West End stars. Recent months have seen performances of Alexander’s For The Record (London), The Sound Of Indifference (New York, Nicosia, London), My So-Called Haunting (Chichester, Leeds) and I Wish My Life Were Like A Musical (Edinburgh Fringe, Cunard Queen Anne and Soho Playhouse New York City). For further information, please visit www.bermange.co.uk. 

Kirk most recently directed a major revival of Peter Quilter’s Glorious! starring Wendi Peters (Hope Mill, UK tour). Last year, Kirk directed the European premiere of Andrew Lippa’s I Am Harvey Milk (Cadogan Hall), starring Sierra Boggess and Joel Harper-Jackson. The same year he also helmed a revival of Jonathan Tolins’ comedy Buyer and Cellar, starring Rob Madge (King’s Head, Plymouth Theatre Royal) and a major revival of Simon Stephens’ play Song From Far Away starring Will Young (HOME). The production subsequently transferred to the Hampstead Theatre in London and was broadcast on BBC Radio Four. In 2022 Kirk directed the European premiere of Matthew Lombardo’s Who’s Holiday? (HOME, Southwark) starring Drag Race alumni Miz Cracker. The year prior he also directed a reimagined production of I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, which was filmed at the London Coliseum and is now available to stream on Broadway HD. In 2019, Kirk presented the UK’s first stage adaptation of Dreamworks’ Madagascar starring X Factor winner Matt Terry. Since then the production has toured Australasia, North America and the UK. Other stage credits include the 10th anniversary concert production of Howard Goodall’s Love Story (Cadogan Hall), the new family musical Magical Merlin (Fortune), The Distance You Have Come (Apollo), Peter Pan (Barn), Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me A Little (Barn) and Just So (Barn); the German Premiere of Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years, Seussical: The Musical (Arts), Annie Get Your Gun (Union), Privates on Parade (Union) and Dames at Sea (Union).