

"Front Room" Receives Semi-Finalist Position at Ashland New Plays Festival
Richard is elated to pass on the news that his play, Front Room, will be moving forward as a semi-finalist in the Ashland New Plays Festival. Front Room is only one of 6% of the submitted scripts that is being considered by the festival’s full Reading Committee. If Richard continues to move forward into the finals, he would be one of four total winners that would receive two readings during the week of the festival. More information will be made available in July – please kee

"Front Room" Scenes to Receive Live Reading at UW's Eau Claire - March 15th, 2017
Scenes from Front Room will be read and presented to a group of students and faculty as part of the Honors Program at the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire on March 15 , 2017. Richard and two of his students (from UW Oshkosh) have been invited by the director of the Honors Program at UW Eau Claire to enhance a special course in Empathy taught by Dr. Cheryl Lapp. The scenes chosen depict the tension between an adult daughter (and theatre professor) and her mother, a widow w