ROBERT RICHMOND
*** ********** *******, **********, ** 29016
Tel: 862-***-****
Email: ********.******@*****.***
Website: www.robertrichmond.com
TRAINING
****-** ***** ************* ** Scotland
Formerly known as Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama.
Three year conservatory training in Acting/Directing culminating in a
Degree equivalent to a Master of Fine Arts.
EMPLOYMENT
2010-present Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
Head of Undergraduate Performance
2007-2010 Visiting Assistant Professor, University of South Carolina
Head of Undergraduate Performance
1993-2007 Associate Artistic Director, Aquila Theatre Company NYC
Director/ Education Director/Master Teacher
2002 2007 Visiting Scholar, Center For Ancient Studies, NYU
2000-2007 Classical Studio, Tisch School for the Arts, NYU
Adjunct Instructor - Dramaturg
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING CREDITS
2011 Othello Shakespeare Folger Theatre, Washington, DC
2011 Cyclops: the Rock Opera Devised Pasadena Playhouse, LA
New York Musical Festival
2011 The Lost Colony Paul Green Roanoke Historical Association, NC
2010 Henry VIII Shakespeare Folger Theatre, Washington, DC
10 Helen Hayes Nominations
2010 A Tale Told By An Idiot Devised Hollywood Fringe Festival, LA
2010 The Lost Colony Paul Green Roanoke Historical Association, NC
2010 Hamlet Shakespeare Denver Center Performing Arts, NTC
2009 The Lost Colony Paul Green Roanoke Historical Association, NC
2009 Elephant s Graveyard George Brant Trustus Theatre, Columbia, SC
2008 The Lost Colony Paul Green Roanoke Historical Association, NC
2007 Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare Greece, Poland, Hungry, Edinburgh
2006 Medea Cherubini Carnegie Hall, (Concert Performance)
2006 Much Ado Shakespeare La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego
2006 Comedy of Errors Shakespeare Globe Theatre, Neuss, Germany
2006 Twelfth Night Shakespeare Globe Theatre, Neuss, Germany
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2005 Much Ado Shakespeare U.S. White House/ private reception
2004 Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles Bill Pullman for Multiple Sclerosis
2004 Oresteia Tanyev Carnegie Hall (Concert Performance)
2003 Comedy Of Errors Shakespeare La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego
2002 Peer Gynt Ibsen Two River Theatre Co, NJ
2000 Julius Caesar Shakespeare Folger Shakespeare Theatre, Wash. DC
2000 Electra Theodorakis Carnegie Hall, (Concert Performance)
OFF BROADWAY
2005 Twelfth Night Shakespeare Baruch Performing Arts Center
2004 Man Who Would Be King Kipling Baruch Performing Arts Center (Premier)
2004 Othello Shakespeare Baruch Performing Arts Center
2004 Agamemnon Aeschylus John Jay Theatre with Olympia Dukakis
2003 Imp. Of Being Earnest Wilde Baruch Performing Arts Center
Clurman Theater, 42nd Street
2002 Comedy of Errors Shakespeare
2002 Comedy of Errors Shakespeare Classic Stage Company
New Victory Theater, 42nd Street, NYC
2002 Midsummer Shakespeare
2001 Much Ado Shakespeare 45 Bleecker + Manhattan Ensemble
2000 Julius Caesar Shakespeare Clark Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center
2000 Cyrano De Bergerac Rostand Clark Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center
2000 Comedy Of Errors Shakespeare Clark Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center
1999 King Lear Shakespeare Clark Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center
1999 The Iliad Book One Homer Clark Studio Theatre, Lincoln Center
AQUILA THEATRE NATIONAL TOURING PRODUCTIONS
2006 Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer Adapted & Directed (Premier)
2006 Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
2005 Hamlet Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
2005 The Invisible Man H.G.Wells Adapted & Directed (Premier)
2004 Midsummer Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
2003 The Tempest Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
2003 Wrath Of Achilles Homer Adapted & Directed
2001 Cyrano De Bergerac Rostand Adapted & Directed
2000 Oedipus Tyrannus Sophocles Adapted & Directed
2000 The Iliad Book One Homer Adapted & Directed (Premier)
1999 Birds Aristophanes Adapted & Directed
1999 The Odyssey Homer Adapted & Directed
1998 Julius Caesar Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
1995 Macbeth Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
1994 Coriolanus Shakespeare Adapted & Directed
1993 Wasps Aristophanes Adapted & Directed
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ACADEMIC THEATRE PRODUTIONS
2011 Romeo & Juliet Shakespeare University Of South Carolina
2011 Comedy of Errors Shakespeare University Of South Carolina
2010 Bent Martin Sherman University Of South Carolina
2009 Cyrano De Bergerac Rostand University Of South Carolina
2009 Skin Of Our Teeth Wilder University Of South Carolina
2008 Hamlet Shakespeare National Theatre Conservatory
2008 Cabal Of Hypocrites Bulgakov University Of South Carolina
2008 A Tale Told By An Idiot Devised University Of South Carolina
2007 Oh What A Lovely War Littlewood University Of South Carolina,
2007 As You Like It Shakespeare University of South Carolina
2001 Mother Courage Brecht New York University
1999 Helen Euripides Duke University
1998 Our Country s Good Wertenbaker University of South Carolina
1998 The Oresteia Aeschylus University of South Carolina
GRANT WRITING
2011 South Carolina Film Commission Production Grant The Edge of the Woods $107,500
2011 South Carolina Film Commission Seminar Grant $40,000
2010 South Carolina Film Commission Production Grant Dreadful Sorry $107,000
2005 Charles Hayden Foundation Theatre in Harlem Project $80,000
2004/05 National Endowment for the Arts Access to Artistic Excellence
2003 National Endowment for the Arts Shakespeare in American Communities
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER
The Edge Of The Woods South Carolina Film Commission release fall 2012
RELATED SKILLS
Senior Artistic Management, Tour Management, Company Stage Management, Scenic Design,
Costume Design, Sound and Lighting Design
PROFESSIONAL DIRECTING PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Henry VIII Alabama Shakespeare Festival (March 2012)
75th Anniversary Season, Roanoke Historical Association, NC (May 2012)
The Lost Colony
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REFERENCES
William Ivey Long
Designer
349 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel: 212-***-****
Email: ******@***************.***
Janet Griffin
Artistic Producer
Folger Theatre
Washington, DC
Tel: 202-***-****
Email: ********@******.***
Louis Scheeder
Arts Professor
Associate Dean of Faculty
Director, The Classical Studio, Dept. of Drama
Tisch School of the Arts/NYU
Tel: 212-***-****
Email: *****.********@***.***
Jim Hunter
Arts Professor
Chair and Artistic Director
Dept. of Theatre and Dance
University of South Carolina
Tel: 803-***-****
Email: *******@***.**.***
Daniel Renner
Dean, National Theatre Conservatory
1101 13th Street,
Denver, CO 80204
Tel: 303-***-****
Email: *******@****.***
Michele Osherow, PhD
Associate Professor of English
Affiliate Associate Professor of Judaic Studies
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Tel: 410-***-****
Email: ********@****.***
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