Background
Goodwin was born in London and educated at Saint Mary"s School, Hendon, and the Royal Academy of Music.
Goodwin was born in London and educated at Saint Mary"s School, Hendon, and the Royal Academy of Music.
Royal Academy of Music.
He has a Bachelor in music (Honours) and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Goodwin began his career in stage management. He was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre.
Goodwin founded The Living Theatre company with Ken Loach, Jill Gascoine, and Brian Grellis, converting an old school in Leicester into a 200-seat open stage theatre.
After two years the building was needed for a new road scheme. A new theatre was built for their use by the city council, but they never moved into lieutenant
Derrick Goodwin has directed over a hundred theatre productions including plays by Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, John Osborne, Anton Chekhov and several of his own plays including four plays for children. Goodwin returned to the Royal Court to assist David William, in the production of Pirandello"s Naked, and then was invited to become assistant director at the Open Air Theatre Regent"s Park.
He was then appointed Artistic Director of the Dundee Repertory Theatre.
He was then appointed Artistic Director of the Ipswich Arts Theatre. John Neville was about to become Artistic Director of the new Nottingham Playhouse, he also wanted to re-open the Newcastle Playhouse and asked Goodwin to become its director When John Neville decided to leave the Nottingham Playhouse, Goodwin also resigned and joined the British Broadcasting Corporation drama department.
He directed episodes of Thirty-Minute Theatre, and Z-Cars.
He became freelance and with Rodney Bewes co-wrote and directed several series of Dear Mother..Love Albert. He directed the tour of My Fat Friend for Michael Codron Limited and the tour of Relatively Speaking for The Oxford Playhouse.
Goodwin was involved in producing and directing many series of both situation comedy and episodes of drama series including New Scotland Yard, and Within These Walls. He co-wrote, with Sid Green, the series Mixed Blessings which he also produced and directed.
lieutenant ran for six seasons.
He directed and produced Thick as Thieves, written by Dick Clement and Ian Louisiana Frenais, and starring John Thaw and Bob Hoskins. He was then invited by the Canadian Broadcasting Company to set up a new drama and entertainment department in Winnipeg. Whilst in Canada, he wrote and directed two half-hour films.
He returned to England and directed many productions for the British Broadcasting Corporation, London Weekend Television, Thames Television and Yorkshire Television.
He was commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn to write a play, Abiding Passions, which was directed by Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough. lieutenant was later re-cast and directed by Goodwin at the Palace Theatre, Watford.
lieutenant also had a production at the Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, Goodwin"s last television series was for Alamo Productions and the British Broadcasting Corporation, Taking the Floor. He now concentrates on writing for theatre and television and also teaching theatre, television and film.
His first novel I Got You Babe which is a free e-book