The Makers - Rikki Beadle-Blair | BFI Flare 2022

Actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, singer, designer, choreographer, dancer and songwriter, Rikki Beadle-Blair visits the BFI Southbank as part of BFI Flare 2022 to talk about his career.
Rikki has produced a prodigious body of work that spans four decades. He wrote Stonewall for BBC Films and wrote, directed and featured in the internationally successful Channel 4 series, Metrosexuality.
Rikki also works extensively in theatre - with celebrated plays including Bashment, Familyman, TwothousandandSex, and the stage version of Stonewall.
For Team Angelica, Rikki has directed four successful independent feature films, including FIT and Free about young sexuality and homophobic bullying (both films were distributed to every school in the UK); KickOff, a comedy about a football match between a gay and straight football team; and the film version of his hit play Bashment, set in the world of homophobic hip-hop/ragga music. He has made several more short films, including Gently, 7 Dials, Thrive, Alive, and Butterfly, commissioned by the Royal Albert Hall.
This year LGBT History Month saw the release of the ‘digital reimagining’ of Alexis Gregory’s one man show Riot Act, which was directed by Rikki.
Rikki has a life-long commitment to creating challenging, transformative entertainment in the mediums of film, theatre, music, television, radio, dance and design. His fearlessness in tackling LGBTQIA+ issues earned him an MBE in 2016 for services to drama.
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