ACTOR BIO

PETER RICHARDS is a Brooklyn-based actor and director who grew up in Santa Monica, CA. He is a founding company member of Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant and an Associate Artist with Blessed Unrest. He received his MFA in acting from A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. BA from Harvard College. Performance credits include: Romeo and Juliet, R&J&Z, As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, Measure for Measure at Opera House Arts; Gone, by Charles L. Mee, at 59E59 Theaters; Olly’s Prison and Dido, Queen of Carthage at American Repertory Theater; Othello at American Stage Theater; Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, with ShakespeareNYC, and From the House of the Dead, Boris Gudanov, and Hamlet at The Metropolitan Opera, among others. TV: “Law and Order: SVU” and “As the World Turns.”