Richard Stockton (playwright)


Richard F. Stockton was an American playwright. He was the first American Playwright to receive a world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s National Theatre, for his play Prisoner of the Crown, co-produced by Sir Alfred Drake. The play received its American premiere by the Repertory Company of the Virginia Museum Theater, under the title The Royal Rape of Ruari Macasmunde, with Keith Fowler in the title role and under Alfred Drake's direction. The play dramatizes the jury deliberations in the treason trial of Roger Casement.
He received his Bachelor's Degree at Akron University in 1954, followed by a Master's Degree in playwriting at UCLA in 1960 and a playwriting fellowship at the State University of Iowa.
He was a speech writer for various CEOs: Chase Manhattan Bank, J. P. Morgan, City Bank and Exxon. Notably David Rockefeller of Chase Manhattan Bank in 1972.
He is survived by his wife, Irene Schaeffer Stockton, three children: David Stockton, Jessica Stockton Clancy and Carlisle Stockton. Followed by five grandchildren: Gray, Avalon, and Talis Stockton; and Maya and Keira Clancy.

Works

Plays

Numerous television dramas for CBS, The Great Adventure, CBC Television, and The U.S. Steel Hour, starring James Whitmore, Anne Baxter, Jeanne Crain, Mona Freeman, Barry Sullivan, and Jack Klugman. A dozen radio plays produced internationally for the BBC, CBC Television, and Radio New Zealand.

Awards

Stockton received the Samuel Goldwyn Creative Writing Award for The House Shall Tremble. He also received first place awards in the Samuel French National Playwriting Competition, the Bellows Prize For Drama, and The Alden Award of the Dramatists Alliance.