Richard Vergette

{{Short description|British playwright, actor and drama teacher}}

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Richard C. Vergette is a British playwright, actor and drama teacher. In 2013 his American Justice, an American congressman's encounter with his daughter's killer, was shown at London's Arts Theatre.{{cite news|last1=Auld|first1=Tim|title=American Justice, at Arts Theatre, review|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/theatre-reviews/9827563/American-Justice-at-Arts-Theatre-review.html|accessdate=3 November 2015|work=The Telegraph|date=25 January 2013}} His 2015 Dancing Through the Shadows was performed by Hull Truck Theatre as part of a trilogy about the history of Hull,{{cite news|last1=Hickling|first1=Alfred|title=Dancing Through the Shadows review – heartbreak and hope in Hull|url=https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2015/oct/13/dancing-through-the-shadows-review-hull-second-world-war-blitz|accessdate=3 November 2015|work=The Guardian|date=13 October 2015}} and his PURE, about the chocolate industry, was one of Mikron Theatre Company's two 2016 productions.{{cite web|title=PURE|url=http://mikron.org.uk/shows?details=pure|publisher=Mikron Theatre Company|accessdate=3 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309152802/http://mikron.org.uk/shows?details=pure | archive-date=9 March 2016}}

He has been Head of the Faculty of Performing Arts at John Leggott College, Scunthorpe and a lecturer at the University of Lincoln,{{cite book|last1=Vergette|first1=Richard|title=Drama & Theatre Studies: AQA Advanced|date=2008|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rM4nPQAACAAJ&q=richard+vergette|accessdate=3 November 2015|chapter=About the author|publisher=Hodder Education |isbn=9781844894475}} written textbooks for school drama students, and acted in the 2010 short film The Legend of Beggar's Bridge.{{cn|date=November 2015}} He was Director of Drama and Head of Learning and Teaching at Ackworth School, a Quaker school in West Yorkshire, until his retirement in 2018.{{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=School Production: Who We Are |url=https://ackworthschool.com/news/wwi-school-production-who-we-are/ |website=Ackworth School |access-date=27 January 2025 |date=18 June 2018}}{{cite news |last1=Hutchinson |first1=Charles |title=Mikron Theatre reveal bittersweet truth behind the chocolate industry in new play Pure |url=https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/theatre/14536148.mikron-theatre-reveal-bittersweet-truth-behind-the-chocolate-industry-in-new-play-pure/ |access-date=27 January 2025 |work=York Press |date=3 June 2016 |language=en}}

He performed his own one-man play Leaving Vietnam at the Park Theatre in London in 2023{{cite web |last1=Popescu |first1=Lucy |title=Review: Leaving Vietnam, at Park90 |url=https://www.westminsterextra.co.uk/article/review-leaving-vietnam-at-park90 |website=Camden New Journal |access-date=27 January 2025 |language=en-gb |date=30 March 2023}} and at the C Arts Studio in Edinburgh in 2024.{{cite web |last1=Scott |first1=Tom |title='Born in the USA (Leaving Vietnam)' - C Arts (studio), Edinburgh |url=https://northwestend.com/born-in-the-usa-leaving-vietnam-c-arts-studio-edinburgh/ |website=North West End UK |access-date=27 January 2025 |date=1 August 2024}} It has been published by Aurora Books (2023, {{ISBN|978-1912430956}})