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RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR MBE

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Born and raised by his lesbian mother in South East London, Rikki learned to read at the age of three and wrote his first play aged seven, and started to direct at the age of He attended the experimental Bermondsey Lamp Post Free School, where he could study any subject he liked, and focused on theatre and film making. 

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Named several years running on the Independent on Sunday’s Pink List as one the most influential gay people in Britain, multi-award-winner Rikki is perhaps best known for creating the cult series Metrosexuality for Channel 4, writing the screenplay for Nigel Finch’s Stonewall, and for his anti-homophobic-bullying films FIT and FREE, co-produced with Stonewall and seen by hundreds of thousands of schookids throughout the UK.

Rikki has a life-long commitment to creating challenging, transformative entertainment in the mediums of film, theatre, music, television, radio, dance an