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Richard Hayward

1892 - 1964

Richard Hayward was an actor, writer,director and specialist in Ulster dialect. As well as founding the Belfast Repertory Theatre and co-founding the Belfast Radio Players, Hayward produced over one hundred records as a ballad singer and also wrote a number of plays.

Playwriting Credits

Play Title Playwright
Huge Love Richard Hayward
The Jew's Fiddle Richard Hayward

Actor

Play Title Playwright
A Quiet Twelfth Hugh Quinn
Castlereagh Thomas Carnduff
Loaves and Fishes Charles K. Ayre
Machinery Thomas Carnduff
No Surrender Gerald Macnamara
Phantoms Rutherford Mayne
The Early Bird James Douglas (2)
The Land of the Stranger Dorothea Donn-Byrne
The Ship St. John Greer Ervine
Traitors Thomas Carnduff
Who Fears to Speak Gerald Macnamara
Workers Thomas Carnduff

Director

Play Title Playwright
A Quiet Twelfth Hugh Quinn
Castlereagh Thomas Carnduff
Collecting the Rent Hugh Quinn
Machinery Thomas Carnduff
Traitors Thomas Carnduff