BARRY CREYTON
Writer | Actor | Director
 

 

Barry Creyton, actor, director, playwright, novelist, has worked extensively in British theatre and television, and in his native Australia where he's known nationally as a star of stage and television. In Los Angeles he's appeared in and directed productions for LA Theatre Works, Blackstone Audio and the Antaeus Theatre Company.

He wrote the sketch material for the Off Broadway revue, Secrets Every Smart Traveler Should Know, which ran for two and a half years in New York.  In Los Angeles, his musical adaptation of Noel Coward's Peace In Our Time won the L.A. Weekly Annual Theatre Award and the Ovation Award, while in his native Australia, he received the prestigious Kessell Memorial Award for his outstanding contributions to Australian theatre as actor, playwright and director. In 2014, he received the International Noel Coward Writing Award.

His plays are produced in more than twenty languages; his two young adult novels The Dogs of Pompeii and Nero Goes to Rome are published by Random House. Murder is Fatal, an affectionate parody of the noir genre, was published in 2017, and The View From Olympus Mons, nominated for the Annual Goodreads Award, and Phoenix, were published by NineStar Press in 2022 / 23. All available on Amazon in Kindle and paperback editions.

He directs multi-cast audio productions including his adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, King Lear and The Tempest for Blackstone Audio, and Cyrano de Bergerac and As You Like It for LA Theatreworks.