Richard is an actor, singer, and voiceover artist educated at Williams College, Oxford University, and Dartmouth College.  He recently appeared as Lord Percy Percy in Blackadder II:  Live for Theatre on Fire, T. Stedman Harder in O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten for Nora Theatre Company, and Inspector Hound in the Publick Theatre's production of Tom Stoppard's The Real Inspector Hound.  He played Robert in Harold Pinter’s Betrayal he co-produced at the BostonCenter for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion and  Duncan, the Porter, and the Doctor in Macbeth with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company/Shakespeare Now! and a Pageanteer in The Communist Dracula Pageant at the American Repertory Theatre.  Other recent theatre projects include Ziegfeld in Funny Girl! and Mr. Sowerberry in Oliver! (Fiddlehead Theatre Company), Birdboot in The Real Inspector Hound (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Boston TheatreWorks), Trigorin in The Seagull (11:11 Theatre Company), Oberon and Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Now!), Male Greek Chorus in How I Learned to Drive (Devanaughn Theatre) and Body in the world premier of Monsters the Musical (Centastage).

In the category of "always the bridesmaid," Richard covered the roles of Lincoln in Paula Vogel’s A Civil War Christmas and Edward and Abe in Richard Nelson's How Shakespeare Won the West at the Huntington Theatre and Hamm in Samuel Beckett's Endgame at ART and stood in for John Cleese during the Boston filming of Pink Panther Deux starring Steve Martin.

He is an actor-in-residence with Boston Playwright's Platform and has won the Best Actor award for two years in a row for the Platform's Festival of New Plays.  He played Baby in Dan Bancroft's Smoke and Andy in Mike Quint's Boy Meets Girl in 2009 and Dale in George Smart's You Don't?!! and Ross in Chris King's The Least of These in 2010.

Film and television appearances include We Shall Remain (dir. Chris Eyre) for PBS, Disney's The Game Plan starring Dwayne Johnson, and the independent festival-circuit film Catching On:  The Day the World Turned Gay.  He was recently seen as a gluttonous Uncle Sam in television commercials for Senate candidate Jim Bender.

Cabaret performances include Get Over It! (with Pamela Enders) and an appearance with Gavin Creel at Ryles Jazz Club, singing the music of John Bucchino with Mr. Bucchino on the piano in The Bucchino Project at the Boston Center for the Arts Calderwood Pavilion, and a comic turn in Cabaret Stars of Tomorrow 2010 at the International Cabaret Conference at Yale University.