Jeremy Dyson

About Jeremy Dyson

Who is it?: Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer
Birth Day: June 14, 1966
Birth Place:  Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom
Birth Sign: Cancer
Occupation: Writer, screenwriter, author, musician
Years active: Since 1993
Spouse(s): Nicola Clarke (m. 2002)
Children: 2

Jeremy Dyson Net Worth

Jeremy Dyson was born on June 14, 1966 in  Leeds, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, is Writer, Miscellaneous Crew, Producer. Jeremy was born in Leeds, Yorkshire. He attended Leeds University where he received a degree in Philosophy. He then went on to the Northern School of Film and Television where he received an M.A. in scriptwriting. It was at Leeds University that Jeremy met fellow League of Gentlemen members Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith. Jeremy Dyson is the "reclusive" member of the famous League of Gentlemen team. He mainly writes and works behind the camera, but will sometimes make small cameo appearances. Jeremy has had a number of books published, including the "The Cranes that Build the Cranes", winner of 2010 Edge Hill Award. In 2010, with Andy Nyman he co-wrote and directed the supernatural-themed play "Ghost Stories", which ran for over two years in London's West End and has since seen further productions in China, Australia, Canada, Russia and South America. In 2011, "Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales" his adaptation of some of the author's best loved adult short stories, was produced by the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith. In 2015 the series "Psychobitches" which Jeremy co-wrote and directed for Sky Arts, won the 2015 Rose D'or for best TV Comedy.
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Biography/Timeline

1980

Alongside his writing work, Dyson plays keyboards in a pop band called Rudolf Rocker, and has previously been a member of Leeds band Flowers for Agatha in the 1980s.

1995

The League of Gentlemen initially began as a stage act in 1995, which then was transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, and then became a television series on BBC Two in 1999. The latter saw Dyson and his colleagues awarded a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award, and the prestigious Golden Rose of Montreux.

2006

Dyson has written several books including Bright Darkness: Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film, a non-fiction guide to horror films, and two collections of short stories entitled Never Trust a Rabbit – short-listed for the Macmillan Silver Pen award – and The Cranes That Build The Cranes which won the 2010 Edge Hill award. His novel What Happens Now was published on 6 April 2006 to favourable reviews and was nominated for the Goss first novel award.

2008

He has co-created (with Simon Ashdown) the BAFTA-nominated television series Funland, which aired on BBC Three, and wrote the Billy Goats Gruff episode of the BBC's 2008 series Fairy Tales.

2010

With Andy Nyman, he co-wrote and co-directed the supernatural-themed stage production Ghost Stories. The play broke box office records at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith theatres where had its first run between February and April 2010 and transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End in June 2010 where it ran for thirteen months. In January 2011, he returned to the Lyric Hammersmith with Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales, the first stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's short stories Tales of the Unexpected.

2013

Dyson was script Editor on the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Mans written by James Corden, Mathew Baynton and Tom Basden. The show is about a pair of lowly office workers who become unwittingly embroiled in a deadly Criminal conspiracy. Its first series was broadcast in 2013.

2017

A film adaptation of Ghost Stories, directed by Dyson and Nyman, premiered in 2017.

2019

He has worked as script Editor and Writer on BBC1’s BAFTA-award-winning The Armstrong and Miller Show (2007–2010), where he created the licentious Flanders and Swann parodying Brabbins and Fyffe, accident-prone Historian Dennis Lincoln Park, disapproving lingerie saleswomen Lisa and Yvonne and the ‘Kill Them’ sketches, amongst others.