Deryk Mendel (1920 – 28 May 2013) was a British ballet dancer, choreographer, actor and director.
He was a friend of Samuel Beckett, who wrote the one-act mime Act Without Words I for him in 1956.
Mendel performed the premiere on 3 April 1957 at the Royal Court Theatre in London.
[1] On 14 June 1963, Mendel directed the premiere of Becket's Play (as Spiel) at the Ulmer Theatre in Ulm-Donau, Germany.
In 1968, Mendel directed one of the first English performances of Beckett's Come and Go at the Royal Festival Hall, with Adrienne Corri, Marie Kean and Billie Whitelaw in the roles of Flo, Vi, and Ru.