Educating Rita Lashana Lynch as Frank and Rita. Educating Rita Educating Rita is a stage comedy by British playwright Willy Russell. It is a play for two actors set entirely in the office of an Open University lecturer. Commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, "Educating Rita" premièred at The Warehouse, London, in June 1980 starring Julie Walters and Mark Kingston. The play was directed by Mike Ockrent. The plays follows the relationship between a 26-year-old Liverpudlian working class hairdresser and Frank, a middle-aged university lecturer, during the course of a year. In the play Frank has no surname, but when the film
Rita Benson LeBlanc Rita Benson LeBlanc Rita Mae LeBlanc, also known as Rita Benson LeBlanc, (born January 11, 1977) is a former Vice Chairman of the Board of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. LeBlanc is the daughter of Russell LeBlanc and Renee Benson, the daughter of Tom Benson, the principal owner of the New Orleans Saints and the New Orleans Pelicans. and his first wife Shirley. She has a brother, Ryan LeBlanc. Born in Houma, Louisiana when her family lived in nearby Cut Off, she was raised on a ranch near Johnson City, Texas, where she attended Lyndon B.