Personal Details

Work Sought:

Likes working to dead-lines and for special requirements - as in set-number casts and specialises subject. Currently working on plays involving the Wolf Boy of Aveyron; and the Moulin Rouge dancer la Goulou. Would like to write for TV sitcoms and/or soaps.

Barry studied at the East 15 School of Acting - founded on the principles of Joan Littlewood - acted at the college’s own theatre, The Harry H. Corbett Theatre, Loughton, and became a professional actor, appearing in repertory in Scotland and the North, and appearing on television dozens of times. Gradually, however, he drifted out of the profession and became a local government officer and resumed his amateur work, acting in and directing literally 100's of plays in his loal area. Always a writer, with two volumes of poetry to his name, Endymion Rampant & These Little Songs, he started concentrating on his first love, play writing. His short drama, Partly Furnished, won the O.Z. Whitbread Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival, and was premiered at the Eblana there to the tradition ‘rave reviews’. Much later the play was put on at the Leicester Haymarket. His play The Amazing Dancing Bear first appeared at the Questors Theatre, Ealing and went on to win an award for the Bristol Old Vic New Plays Contest. His work has been performed all round the world, including South Africa, South America, Australia and Peru, but he still hankers for an old-fashioned West End appearance, as was achieved by his old writing partner Alistair Foote with Uproar In The House and No Sex, Please - We’re British. He belongs to several Northampton drama companies and premiered his latest piece, The Evadne Trilogy, with one of them in 2000, when he played the female lead and got into the National newspapers and television for foolishly gluing his eyes together with false eyelashes and superglue and having to be rushed from stage to hospital!!