Biography
Adrian Bean is a television director, writer, radio producer and former theatre director.
He began his career in repertory theatre and the West End, later becoming Artistic Director of London's Inner City Theatre Company. He joined the BBC as a Radio Drama Producer before training as a television director.
Bean has directed episodes of many British continuing dramas, including Casualty (2000–2002), Hollyoaks (from 2013), Emmerdale, Coronation Street, EastEnders, Doctors, Heartbeat and The Coroner (2015). He has also written episodes of Doctors and Heartbeat. In 2003 he received the Royal Television Society Award for Best Drama for the Afternoon Play episode Turkish Delight.
