Ricky Allen

Ricky Allen is an award winning comedy writer & director who turns the quiet and bizarre rhythms of everyday British life into the absurd. Finding comfort in TV shows such as Father Ted and Spaced from a young age, these early obsessions transported him away from the monotony of eating mince every night, being asked if Ricky is short for Richard (it's not) and waiting for the dial-up modem to connect.

His latest comedy short DEATH WISH, about a young girl’s dying wish for her mummy to join her in heaven, won Silver at the Young Director Award in Cannes.
The music video THE DANCE YOU SELL, inspired by his mum’s constant run-ins with dodgy used car salesmen, was a finalist at the Young Arrow Awards, Shiny shortlisted, featured in Shots Unsigned, and topped Promonews’ “popular content” chart for a few days (you’ll never sing that).

Ricky also directed a BOOST ENERGY ad starring the world’s strongest man in football, which earned him a trip to the Shiny Awards in Amsterdam. He is an NFTS graduate, where his student commercial for BURT’S BEES was a finalist at the Young Arrows and he was also the in-house director at Sony’s 4th Floor Creative, working alongside artists such as Little Mix, Demi Lovato, and Mimi Webb.
Ricky is currently writing a TV pilot about a dysfunctional parish choir.