Board of Directors

Richard Everett began his professional career in 1970 as an actor working in the theatre, TV, and movies.
 
In the late 70’s he went on to form his own fringe theatre company. Working with David Wickert, he financed and built The Upstream Theatre in London and was Artistic Director there for 3 years until 1980 when he turned to writing.
 
He is the author of seven produced stage plays which are published and regularly performed  in the UK and abroad. His most recent play '"Entertaining Angels" , starring Penople Keith, was a sell-out success at the Chichester Festival Theatre in 2006. He was subsequently commissioned by CFT to write a new play which he has just completed and is scheduled for the 2009 season. 
 
Richard has written several plays for BBC Radio 4, and extensivley for animation with over 150 scripts to his credit. Among them the BAFTA nominated ‘Joseph’ for the Testament series.
 
In 2002, his first feature film Two Men Went To War (starring Kenneth Cranham, Derek Jacobi, James Fleet, and Phyllida Law) went on general release in the UK and across America and was in the official selection for the Hollywood Film Festival in 2003.

After graduating from University with a Law degree John joined an advertising agency as a copywriter becoming Head of TV at Bates then BBDO. 

He then moved into the world of TV and film. His first screen credits were for the creation of the special effect computer sequences in Otto Preminger's 'Rosebud' and Norman Jewison's 'Rollerball'. This use of video trickery, in turn led to him spending the next few years directing pop promos for the BBC's 'Old Grey Whistle Test'.  

John began writing for television on the multi-award winning 'Not The Nine O Clock News'. He then went on to write numerous comedy shows such as 'Comedy Wavelength', 'Sticky Moments', 'Alas Smith and Jones', 'About Face', 'Helping Henry' and 'Terry & Julian'. He also wrote the feature film ‘In Search Of An Impotent Man’ and co-wrote ‘The Borrowers’, ‘Loch Ness’, ‘The Magical Legend Of The Leprechauns’, ‘The Water Giant’ ,‘Greyfriars Bobby’ and ‘Tales Of The Riverbank’. 

He started directing television and films full time in the summer of 1986. The first programme he made, the satirical 'Spitting Image', was nominated for a British Academy award and since that time he has received ten further Academy nominations including winning with 'The Borrowers' in 1993. 
 
His work over eight feature films and near two hundred television pieces has won more than thirty major awards world-wide and his commercials have picked up a similar number of industry recognitions. 

David Wickert has been director of Chapel & York since 1997, and is currently also a trustee of the ASDA Wal-Mart Foundation.

From 1972 to 1986 he was a Vicar in Wimbledon, and then in Waterloo in central London.  He was the first chairman of the Waterloo Trust, and in 1977 with Richard Everett he co-founded the Upstream Theatre Club.

From 1986 to 1997 he was a director of the Charities Aid Foundation and the founding director of CAFAmerica in New York City.