Richard began his career as an actor, which indirectly led to him becoming a stage manager of Broadway touring shows such as Beatlemania and Ain’t Misbehavin, as well as the off broadway tour of Little Shop of Horrors. In order to get off the road, he became a Production Stage Manager at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles where he was fortunate to work with many of the outstanding Playwrights, Directors and Actors in the business. Eventually Richard decided to try to learn about filmmaking, taking any job he could get as a volunteer on student films and indies to learn the craft, in-between theatre jobs. Several years later Richard landed a job at Lorimar Television, taking a 75% pay cut to continue to learn about TV & Film. This was a Post Production Traffic coordinator position, back when TV shows were still cutting on film, and there were lots of elements traveling all over the city to track for our shows. This eventually led to Post Supervisory jobs on shows like Our House & Aaron’s way. The Studio then asked him to move over to Knots Landing which continued to run another 6 seasons and where he eventually rose to Associate Producer. Once Knots ended, he was a freelance AP mostly for Warner Bros, which had by now bought Lorimar. After a few seasons of mostly doing pilots that didn’t get picked up, Richard was offered a temporary job to help substitute for the head of Post at WB who was out on maternity leave. Originally thinking he would not enjoy this work vs being on shows, his mind was changed as he embraced the challenges from the Studio side. An opening came up at NBC Studios for a manager of Post, and he was lucky to secure that position which over a 27 year career with NBC grew from Manager to SVP of Post Production for Universal TV & Universal Content Productions, as the company grew into Comcast NBC Universal. Richard was responsible for delivering thousands of episodes of television including but not limited to shows such as Will & Grace, Homicide, House, The Office, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, The Good Place, Parenthood, Smash, The Mindy Project, Brooklyn 99, Master of None, Monk, Battlestar Galactica, Psych, Suits, Mr. Robot, Homecoming, Umbrella Academy, Resident Alien and many more.
