While working as an actor in New York City, Richard appeared at Manhattan Theatre Club, Chelsea Theatre Center, the W.P.A Theater and Douglas Fairbanks Theatre. He has acted regionally in over eighty roles in such theatres as The Hippodrome State Theater, GEVA, Florida Studio, Paper Mill Playhouse, P.A.F. Playhouse, Olney Theatre, TheatreVirginia and Heritage Repertory. Performances include roles in: All My Sons, The Price, A Moon for the Misbegotten, King Lear, A Man for All Seasons, Life x 3, Art, Moonlight and Magnolias, Rounding Third, Educating Rita, Later Life, La Bete, Two for the Seesaw, Same Time Next Year, The Foreigner, The Nerd, The Boys Next Door, Rumors, The Dining Room, Little Footsteps, Fools, Absurd Person Singular, How the Other Half Loves, Da, Crucifer of Blood, The Mousetrap, Wait Until Dark, Blithe Spirit, The Rainmaker, Greater Tuna and Sylvia. Film credits include Patriot Son, winner of the 1998 LA Film Fest’s independent short category and selected to screen at the Telluride Festival. He appeared as L.P. Everett in the episode, “The 20% Solution” for the television drama Homicide: Life on the Streets.