Born in Carlisle, Dick was educated at St Bees School and Trinity Hall, Cambridge. He co-founded The Actor’s Touring Company in 1978 and The Medieval Players in 1980. He was artistic director of the International Workshop Festival (IWF) from 1992 – 2001, programming over 200 practical workshops led by leading figures across the full range of the performing arts. After leaving (IWF) he began a process of movement training and began teaching theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has edited and introduced three books: With an Eye for Movement (on Warren Lamb’s development of Rudolph Laban’s movement theories) for Brechin Books (2006) and The Laban Sourcebook (2011) and The Art of Movement: Rudolf Laban’s Unpublished Writings (2023) both for Routledge. He has written three books: Bakhtin and Theatre (2016) for Routledge with a Portuguese translation published in Brazil in 2024; The Actor’s Body – A Guide (2018) and his Rethinking the actor’s Body – Dialogues with Neuroscience (2020), for  Bloomsbury Methuen. He has written a number of articles and chapters on the subjects of actor training, movement training, and neuroscience and performer training. He qualified as a Feldenkrais practitioner in 2007, and became an Instructor of Wu Family Tai Chi Chuan in 2016.