Bio

... wanted to be a clown when he was three years old.  He has studied and worked in the theater since he was ten years old.  He grew up in Seaview, Fire Island, NY, (every summer - all summer) while living the rest of the year in Indiana, Virginia, and Tennessee.  Richard first attended acting classes at the Lynchburg, TN, Fine Arts Center.  While in junior high and high school in Johnson City, TN, he appeared in every community theater or school production he could, he sang in  Science Hill High School's award-winning 160-voice choir (which took it's production of Brigadoon to Leas-MacRae College in nearby Banner Elk, NC - Richard played the lead, Tommy - and it's 16-voice ensemble - in which Richard sang all three years - on a tour ending at the National  Choir Contest in Atlanta).  Richard graduated in the top 10% of his class and he appeared in Who's Who Among America's High School Students.  He then majored in theater at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, while Emmy-Winner Anthony Quayle (QB7) was in residence, and toured with U.T.'s Scholar's Troupe in the Scottish Play.

Richard left college to work as an actor/singer/etc., playing all over the United States.  He toured with the legendary Alpha-Omega Players of The Repertory Theater of America (four players in a four-show repertory... playing theaters, civic centers, churches, colleges, high schools, country clubs and military bases in 33 states -  10,000 miles of one-night-stands).  He was a singing waiter at Musicana Supper Clubs in Florida and Georgia.  He was a resident clown, director and actor at a resort in French Lick, IN.

Richard finally moved to NYC, where he immediately began studies at HB Studios and the Clyde Vinson Studio.  He has worked on Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway (with many theater companies of note), on film, in TV & in cabaret.  The total number of roles he's created is well into the hundreds - he has literally lost count.
 He's currently a company artist of WorkShop Theater Company, on West 36th Street, where he serves as actor, director, producer and sometime designer.

Richard also supports himself "flirting-'n'-squirting" fragrances for Houbigant, France's oldest perfume house, at Bergdorf Goodman. He lives in Hell's Kitchen.