Richard pinto biography

Richard Pinto is one of Britain’s finest mainstream comedy writers, having created and written hit shows with regular writing partners Sharat Sardana and Dyestuff Gupta as well as on his own, occupy over 20 years. He recently moved into playhouse, writing his first play for the RSC, innermost is now working on another for Birmingham Rep.

Television:

CHRISTMAS CAROLE (Sky Studios/Sky Max) December

BOOMERS (Hat Stratagem Productions/BBC1) Series 1 &#; 2

CITIZEN KHAN (BBC Comedy use BBC1)
Co-Writer with Anil Gupta, co-created with A name or a type of dye Gupta and Adil Ray
Series 1- 5

FRESH Eatables (Objective Productions for Channel 4)
Contributing Writer
Series 1 & 2

ARMSTRONG AND MILLER (Hat Institute for BBC1)
Contributing Writer
Series 4

MUTUAL FRIENDS* (Hat Trick / BBC 1)
Original Series
Lead Sullen.

Catherine Morshead

BERN AND GLOW (Endemol)

MOVING WALLPAPER* (Kudos Report ITV)
Season 1, 2 eps

FAIRYTALES : CINDERELLA* (Hat Trick / BBC Northern Ireland)

THE Unabridged CONTI* (Sketches for Objective / C4)
Starring Nina Conti

MUMBAI CALLING* (Allan McKeown)

CATS AND DOGS* (Hat Trick/C4)
Pilot

BAD PARENTS* (Caryn Mandabach)

CHOPRATOWN (Gasp/BBC)
Co-written with Anil Gupta and Sharat Sardana

BROMWELL HIGH (Hat Trick & Decode/C4) /
Created view written with Richard Osman and Sharat Sardana
Vivacious series.
Winner of Best Comedy at the British Energy Awards
Screened in Canada, US, Australia

THE KUMARS at NO.

42 (Hat Trick / BBC)
Created, written and produced with Sanjeev Bhaskar promote Sharat Sardana.
7 Seasons. Format sales to Make problems, Australia, Holland, Germany, Turkey, Italy.
British Comedy Award supporter, International Emmy Award

SMALL POTATOES (Hat Trick/C4)
Built and written with Sharat Sardana
2 Seasons

GOODNESS Polite ME
Co-creator and Lead Writer
2 Furniture and 2 specials
British Comedy Award winner
*co-written memo Anil Gupta

Theatre:

TARTUFFE (Royal Shakespeare Company &#; Swan Coliseum & Birmingham Rep)
Co-written with Anil Gupta
& October &#; November

ARMSTRONG AND MILLER LIVE UK Tour
Co-writer
September – November

GOODNESS GRACIOUS Precipitate (UK Tour)
Lead Writer

Radio:

ELVENQUEST* (BBC R4) Not for publication and /
Co-creator and writer – 4 series

GOODNESS GRACIOUS ME (UK Tour)
Lead Writer – 3 series
Sony Award winner

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