Richard Kent Green -- "RKG", as friends & colleagues know him -- is here to help. For decades, he has worked as an actor in film, television and commercials; and in theatre, as producer, director, & designer as well. RKG plays the squirrely guy who "gets it" (or thinks he does) because he's freakishly smart, or he blindly follows his heart... and one usually gets in the way of the other: offbeat geniuses (Einstein, Salvador Dali, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Dr. Strangelove), hopeless cases and hardasses you find yourself rooting for. An actor for whom roles get 'written in'; who people call when they don't quite know who they need, or when they need an actor to play five completely different characters.

Richard spent his childhood in Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee, and mostly Fire Island, NY, the third son of a former protestant minister-turned private pilot and an OG Jersey Girl who managed to have it and do it all.

His life as an artist began on his third birthday, when he announced that he'd be a clown when he grew up. By the time he was ten, he was regularly trodding the boards in community theater. Acting and singing bouyed him through high school and college. His actual BFF gave him his first ukulele as a high school graduation gift. Richard left the University of Tennessee in his third year to work -- acting, singing & moving well, at Opryland in Nashville, Musicana Supper Clubs in Florida and The Repertory Theater of America / Alpha-Omega Players (performing in a repertory of two plays & two musicals for ten months of one-nighters, through thirty-three states - the closest experience in America to the British method of honing the skills of career actors).
With a few years as a non-union actor on his resume, Richard "repatriated" to New York City. After a few years in the cabaret world as a singing waiter at Once Upon A Stove and Paper Moon, Richard immersed himself in New York's Indie Theater scene, first as an Acting Company Member of Love Creek Productions (one of the most -- if not the most -- prolific theater companies in Off-Off Broadway history, headed by playwright Le Wilhelm), then as company artist, director, and producer with the WorkShop Theater Company throughout its twenty-year residence in the Theater Building on West 36th Street. Occasional work in TV, film and commercials came his way.
To support his indie theater work, Richard navigated a storied career as promotional demonstrator par excellence. He 'flirted & squirted' fragrances and vogued gifts-with-purchase at every major department and specialty store in New York, finally single-handedly launching and servicing account locations for the luxury industry's biggest, oldest, and most expensive names in perfume at the highest-end stores in the city. He was also a scenic carpenter and painter.

Richard's sole focus is now on acting in TV, streaming & film projects and commercials. His 'science faction' play, "Snap, Crackle..." is being submitted for theatrical production, and he co-writing a dramedy for streaming with Evgeniya Radilova (Lost Cos), in which they will co-star.

 

He studies on-camera acting with Anthony Robert Grasso at ARG Studios and improv at Upright Citizens Brigade; he's a member of We Make Movies NYC and career coach Jodie Bentley's Actor Insider.

ALSO:
RKG co-hosts a New York circle of shamanic practitioners, and runs its camp at Burning Man, where he's known as 'Einstein'; he's an original member of the consent support team at House of Yes in Brooklyn; he plays banjolele in the novelty band Unintended Consequences - 'the unofficial band of the Roaring 2020s'; he's a climate activist with Extinction Rebellion NYC; he lives in Hell's Kitchen.

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