RICHARD BEAN, a renowned British playwright has had plays staged worldwide. An award winning writer his first full length play, Of Rats and Men went to Edinburgh & was adapted for BBC radio where it was nominated for a Sony Award. This was followed by Toast, a hit at the Royal Court. His other plays have been staged at the National Theatre, the Bush Theatre and the Hampstead theatre. Bean also won the 2005 Critics' Circle Theatre Best New Play Award for Harvest. Bean's latest play The Big Fellah opened to rave reviews and was nominated for the 2010 Evening Standard Theatre Award for Best New Play.