Ian Dickens is a former actor and is currently a theatrical producer

Theatrical producer

A theatrical producer is the person ultimately responsible for overseeing all aspects of mounting a theatre production. The independent producer will usually be the originator and finder of the script and starts the whole process...

 and director, the founder of Ian Dickens Productions.

His theatrical company, Ian Dickens Productions, has about seven companies touring the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 at any one time, with an annual turn over of £3,000,000. Popular performers to have appeared in Ian Dickens Productions include Leslie Grantham

Leslie Grantham

Leslie Michael Grantham is an English actor best known for his role as "Dirty" Den Watts in the soap opera EastEnders. He is also a convicted murderer, having served 10 years for the killing of a German taxi driver, and he generated significant press coverage as the result of an online sex scandal...

, Hannah Waterman

Hannah Waterman

Hannah Waterman-Groves is an English actress, daughter of Minder star Dennis Waterman and his second wife, actress Patricia Maynard.-Career:...

, David Janson

David Janson

David Janson is an English actor whose stage debut was in Oliver! in 1962. He joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 in A Midsummer Night's Dream and appeared as the young boy in The Beatles film A Hard Day's Night.Janson became well known for his role as Jimmy Harker in the 1960s British...

, Sabina Franklyn

Sabina Franklyn

Sabina Franklyn is an English actress, and the daughter of William Franklyn and Margo Johns.Franklyn attended the independent Queen's Gate School and acted on stage with repertory theatres before her television appearances....

, David Callister

David Callister

David Alexander Callister MHK is a Manx politician and broadcaster, who is a current member of the Legislative Council of the Isle of Man. He defeated Pamela Crowe in 2008., He is also known as a former broadcaster on Manx Radio....

, Frazer Hines

Frazer Hines

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, Deborah Watling

Deborah Watling

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, Dilys Watling

Dilys Watling

Dilys Watling is an English actress, possibly best known for appearing on British television ....

, Jonathon Morris

Jonathon Morris

Jonathon Morris is an English actor and former television presenter.-Career:Morris is best known for his role as Adrian Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread, in which he starred for the series' entire five-year run between 1986-1991, and which made him a well-known face on British Television.Prior...

, Carmen Silvera

Carmen Silvera

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, David Griffin, Ruth Madoc

Ruth Madoc

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, Fenella Fielding

Fenella Fielding

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 and others.

In 2009 Ian Dickens Productions took over the running of the Theatre Royal, Lincoln

Theatre Royal, Lincoln

The Theatre Royal is a theatre in Lincoln, Lincolnshire, England.The present theatre, initially called the New Theatre Royal, was built in 1893 to the designs of Bertie Crewe and W.G.R. Sprague. An explosion and fire in 1892 had destroyed the previous theatre on the site, built in 1806...

 which then became the base for their touring productions.

Ian Dickens is the theatre's Artistic Director

Artistic director

An artistic director is the executive of an arts organization, particularly in a theatre company, that handles the organization's artistic direction. He or she is generally a producer and director, but not in the sense of a mogul, since the organization is generally a non-profit organization...

 and CEO

Chief executive officer

A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

.

External links

• http://www.swanseasgrand.co.uk/page81.htmlList of Ian Dickens Productions at the Swansea Grand Theatre
  Swansea Grand Theatre
  The Grand Theatre is a performing arts venue in the centre of Swansea, Wales. The theatre stages plays, pantomimes and touring theatrical acts visiting Swansea. The Grand Theatre is the base for the UK's only Russian ballet company, the Swansea Ballet Russe....
  
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• http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/news/view.asp?id=b60a6561-ffb6-102c-966b-fdf1bde13151'Director Secure's Theatre's Future' Newark Advertiser
  Newark Advertiser
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