Frank Vickery was born in 1951 in the Rhondda Valley, where he still lives and works as a playwright. He started writing whilst he was still in school and had his first major success at the age of twenty one when his first comedy ‘After I’m Gone’ won the Howard De Waldon Trophy for the best one act play in Great Britain. He quickly followed this with another short play called ’ See you Tomorrow’, which won him the best playwright award from the Drama Association of Wales. Since then, he has written extensively for the theatre, radio and television.

For many years he had a successful association with Parc and Dare Theatre Company, which fuelled his ambition to create his own production company Grassroots. Prior to this, he had an eight year association with the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. He is the author of thirty plays to date, most of which are published by Samuel French Limited.

In recent years Frank has concentrated on performing, as well as writing and he enjoyed a highly successful season at Ludlow in William Shakespear’s ‘Twelfth Night’ as Sir Andrew and Philario in ‘Cymberline’ both directed by Michael Bogdanov.

In 2005 he created the book for a major new Welsh musical called ‘Amazing Grace’ and also premiered his comedy ’Tonto Evans’ which received great reviews. As well as appearing for 2 consecutive years in pantomime at the Swansea Grand Theatre.

This year he was the subject of a major documentary by BBC called ’On Show : Kiss and Tell’. His latest comedy ‘Granny Annie’ is about to begin a major theatrical tour.