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Richard trained at the Young Vic and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Between 2018 and 2025 he was International Associate Director of the Olivier Award-winning Back To The Future The Musical. In 2024 he opened the Tony Award-winning MJ The Musical in the West End as UK Associate Director. He is a recipient of the Sir Paul McCartney Human Spirit Award.
As a director, Richard’s credits include the European Premiere of Tuck Everlasting (National Youth Music Theatre & Birmingham Hippodrome), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatre Clwyd), Funny Girl (UK Tour, Tour Director), Growl (National Youth Music Theatre & UK Tour), Ruthless! The Musical (Arts Theatre, West End), Barnes’ People (Jamie Lloyd Productions & Trafalgar Entertainment), The Moment Before I’m Powerful (Jamie Lloyd Productions & Trafalgar Entertainment), Cinderland (Old Vic Theatre), A Kid Like Jake (Old Vic Theatre), and The Hour of Feeling (HighTide & Public Theatre New York), The Boy Who Lived Down The Lane (Yong Soh Tiew Conservatory, Singapore), Serious Heroes (Old Vic Theatre), Faustus: That Damned Woman (Mountview), Into the Woods (Mountview), Urinetown The Musical (Mountview), The Addams Family (Mountview), Carrie The Musical (Mountview), Bandstand (Arts Educational), Legally Blonde (Arts Educational), Once on This Island (Arts Educational) and Top Hat (Arts Educational).
Associate and assistant credits include: Back To The Future The Musical (Opera House, Adelphi Theatre, Winter Garden Broadway, Shiki Theatre Tokyo & multiple TV appearances), MJ The Musical, (Prince Edward Theatre), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory), Buried Child (Trafalgar), The Spoils(Trafalgar), Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory & Savoy Theatre), Dinner with Saddam (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Ruling Class (Trafalgar), Assassins (Menier Chocolate Factory), Urinetown The Musical (St James Theatre & Apollo Theatre), Richard III (Trafalgar), The 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala (Old Vic Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith), Island (National Theatre & UK Tour), Bottleneck (HighTide & Edinburgh Festival), Clockwork (HighTide), Jack and the Beanstalk (Watford Palace Theatre), The Marriage of Figaro (Watermill Theatre), The Machine Gunners (Polka Theatre), Four Knights in Knaresborough (Southwark Playhouse), The Captive (Finborough Theatre) and The Great British Country Fete (Bush Theatre & UK Tour). Workshops include The Changeling, After Miss Julie (Young Vic), Island and Jacob’s Death (NT Studio).
Former Resident Assistant Director of HighTide Festival Theatre | Visiting Director at Mountview, Arts Educational and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts | Richard has script read for The Bush Theatre, Hampstead Theatre, HighTide and Vicky Graham Productions.
Download a PDF of Richard’s CV here.