- Started out in stage management at the Royal Court Theatre and then went to Leicester, where in 1960 he converted an old school and started the Living Theatre Company with Ken Loach, Jill Gascoine and Brian Grellis.
- In the 1970s he was as artistic director of the Dundee Repertory Company. It was where he met the actor Nell Curran who became his wife in 1980.
- He spent a period in Canada, setting up a new drama and entertainment department for the Canadian Broadcasting Company, and on returning to the UK worked for the BBC and London Weekend Television, Thames TV and Yorkshire TV.
- Had a Swedish mother and a British father, they divorced when he was a baby.
- Was a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
- He also worked at the Citizens Theatre in Glasgow as the associate director, and at Ipswich Arts Theatre and the Nottingham Playhouse.
- In 1990 he was commissioned by Alan Ayckbourn to write a play, Abiding Passions, an adaptation of Emile Zola's Thérèse Raquin, for the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough. It went on to be produced at the Palace Theatre in Watford and the Riverside Studios in Hammersmith.
- Became the assistant director at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park in the early 1960s.
- Was brought up in London by three aunts.
- Did his national service in the Royal Air Force in what was then Malaya as a dog handler.
- Was educated at St Mary's school in Hendon, London.
- Received a BA in music from the Royal College of Music.
- Goodwin founded The Living Theatre company with Ken Loach, Jill Gascoine and Brian Grellis, converting an old school in Leicester into a 200-seat open stage theatre. After two years, the building was needed for a new road scheme. A new theatre was built for their use by the city council, but the company never moved into it.
- Derrick Goodwin wrote a novel, I Got You Babe, which is available as a free e-book.
- Goodwin began his career in stage management. He was an assistant director at the Royal Court Theatre.
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