Jeremy Dyson

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Jeremy Dyson (born 14 June 1966) is an English author, musician and screenwriter who, along with Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, is one of the League of Gentlemen.

He also created and co-wrote the popular West End show Ghost Stories and its film adaptation.

Early life

Dyson was born in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, son of Elaine Saville and Melvin Dyson. He has one older brother, Andrew Dyson, and a younger sister, Jayne Dyson. He was educated at Leeds Grammar School, now The Grammar School at Leeds. He studied Philosophy at the University of Leeds and later completed an MA in screenwriting at the Northern Film School. He lived in Highbury, London, but now lives in Ilkley, West Yorkshire. Jeremy is also Jewish, raised in a kosher home, though no longer practicing, it often appears in his work.

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Career

Dyson, co-creator of the West End play Ghost Stories, and a member of the sketch comedy group The League of Gentlemen, the former and several others include Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith, all of whom attended Bretton Hall drama school. The League of Gentlemen began as a stage act in 1995 and was then transferred to BBC Radio 4 in 1997 as On the Town with the League of Gentlemen, and then as a TV show on BBC Two in 1999. Dyson and his coworkers were given a British Academy Television Award, a Royal Television Society Award, and Montreux's coveted Golden Rose.

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, which were short-listed for the Macmillan Silver Pen award – and The Cranes That Built The Cranes, which received the 2010 Edge Hill award. On BBC Radio 4, five stories from Never Trust a Rabbit were published. What Happens Now was published in 2006 to critical reviews and was nominated for the Goss first novel award.

He co-created (with Simon Ashdown) the BAFTA-nominated television series Funland, which aired on BBC Three, and co-authored the BBC's 2008 version Fairy Tales' Billy Goats Gruff. He served as script editor and writer on BBC1's best-winning The Armstrong and Fyffe show (2007-2010), where he created the licentious Brabbins and Fyffe, parodying Flanders and Swann, accident-prone historian Dennis Lincoln Park, disapproving jargon, and other things. He was the script editor of BBC Two's House (2010), BBC Three's Death Boss (2012), and Walking and Talking (2012) for Sky Atlantic. On BBC Radio 3, his short story "The Bear" – a tale about identity – was broadcast in 2010.

Except for brief cameos, Dyson does not appear in The League of Gentlemen television series or any of its offshoots due to his self-confidental lack of acting abilities. He began working as the assistant producer instead. Michael Sheen plays him in the film version, though Dyson appears in a few scenes from the beginning.

Dyson has an obsession with English writer Robert Aickman's writing and has adapted Aickman's work in a number of media. Andy Nyman co-wrote and co-directed the supernatural-themed stage performance Ghost Stories, co-written and co-directed by Andy Nyman. The show smashed box office records at the Liverpool Playhouse and Lyric Hammersmith theaters, where it appeared for the first time between February and April 2010. In June 2010, it was sold to the Duke of York's Theatre in the West End, where it lasted for thirteen months. In January 2011, Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales, Roald Dahl's first stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's short stories Tales of the Unexpected, returned to the Lyric Hammersmith. In 2017, a film adaptation of Ghost Stories, starring Nyman and Dyson, premiered.

Dyson, script editor on the BBC Two comedy-thriller The Wrong Men, a script editor written by James Corden, Mathew Baynton, and Tom Basden. The show is about two young office employees who became unknowingly embroiled in a deadly criminal plot. In 2013, it was the first series to be broadcast. Tracey Ullman's show and Tracey Breaks the News starring Tracey Ullman has written and served as script supervisor for the BBC sketch comedy series Tracey Ullman's Show and Tracey Breaks the News.

Dyson performs keyboards in Rudolf Rocker's pop band, and he appeared in Flowers for Agatha in the 1980s.

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