Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood is an English Australianbased film and television actorproducer.

Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from 1959 to 1965. He then started working in the cellars of a local wine shipper before gaining a place at E15 Acting School. After graduating in 1970 he emigrated to Australia and soon after, he was involved with Sydneys Nimrod Theatre Company and according to an interview with ABC reporter Jane Cowan, actually helped build the premises with scrap timber. He was the Artistic Director of the Pros and Cons Playhouse at Parramatta Jail for two years. He established the drama service on Kiribati National Radio. Chris is the Patron of the Friends of Waverley Library where he inaugurated the Waverley Library Literary Award, an annual award of 20,000 given for the quality of research for a published work of literary merit written by an Australian writer and published in the previousmonths.

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