The son of an Episcopal Archdeacon, Lawrence Waddy was born in 1914 near Sydney, Australia, and spent his early years in Jerusalem, where his father served the church. On Sundays, the family would get together and act out bible stories. “It was a way to take a story off the page and make it exciting,” he recalls.
Educated in England, he graduated from Oxford University in 1937, was ordained an Episcopal Priest in 1941, and served as a Chaplain in the Royal Navy from 1942-46.
Father Waddy’s teaching career includes posts at Winchester College, in Hampshire, England and the Tonbridge School in Kent, where he served as Headmaster from 1949 to 1962. During that tenure, he began writing Bible plays, several of which were broadcast on the BBC. His musical, JOB, won first prize in the Monte Carlo UNDA Film Festival.
As chaplain at the Bishop’s School in the 1960’s, he continued writing and dramatizing bible stories as a teaching tool and has been part of numerous productions around the San Diego area.
The Reverend Waddy lives with his wife, Laurie in La Jolla. The couple continues to be involved in numerous community activities, including benefit performances of Father Waddy’s plays.
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