Personal profile
Biography
Richard is an established actor, voice artist, director and facilitator who graduated from Mountview Theatre School in 1999. He has worked in drama schools and dance colleges and is the creative director of Future Legend Media Ltd
As an actor he has toured all over the world including The Wizard of Oz, Taming of the Screw, Abigail’s Party, Alice in Wonderland and Blood Wedding. As a voice artist he has voiced hundreds of adverts, documentaries, audiobooks, explainers and computer games. He is also a founding member and lead singer of the tribute band The Rolling Stones Now, est.1998.
On a local level Richard has been involved in many projects with the BCA, The Culture Challenge and the Harpur Trust including, Culture Clubs, Dan Albone / Shuttleworth Collection, Airship Dreams, Risk Takers and History Makers, From Bunyan to The Brickworks, Women are Warriors, HT awards ceremony. He also joint founded and co-ran Bedfringe from 2007 – 2013.
Richard is an Acting Tutor and teaches across the BA (Hons) Acting and Performing Arts courses
Teaching Expertise
- Staging New Writing
- Acting in New Repertory
- Teaching and Community Practice
- Devising for Performance
- Professional Practice in Performing Arts
Education/Academic qualification
Other qualification, Diploma in Acting and Musical, Theatre Mountview Theatre School
Bachelor, Performance, University of East Anglia
External positions
Guitarist , Crimson Sails (2023)
Actor, Played Candy Cane Cackles, Hansel and Gretel (2019), Quarry Theatre, Bedford. Directed by Miles Leven.
Actor, played Fleshcreep, Jack and the Beanstalk (2020), Cresset Theatre, Peterborough. Directed by Stuart Morrison.
Writer and Actor, Task 7 Maximum Security (2022)
Lead and Compere, The Discovery of 7 (2021), Bedfringe festival, Quarry Theatre, Bedford.
Performer, The Master, The Master Diaries (2020), podcast paying homage to Doctor Who in the 1970’s/1980’s. Written and Produced with Jimmy Mann and recorded, edited and mixed at The Voice Lab.
Founding member and lead singer Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones Now
Keywords
- N Fine Arts
- Theatre
- Acting
- Collective Flow
- Collaboration
- Play
- Ensemble
- Creativity
- Directing
- Facilitating
- Storytelling
- Collected Theatre
Thesis
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Identifying enablers of (individual and) collective flow in a theatre rehearsal process
Mann, R. (Author), Douse, L. (Supervisor) & Wiener, M. (Second supervisor), 14 May 2024Student thesis: Master's thesis
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