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Peter Richards is a director, actor, and producer known for his wide array of interests, ranging from the classics through contemporary American plays to experimental and devised theatre. In 2017, he served as Interim Artistic Director of Opera House Arts in Stonington, Maine. Richards has received critical praise for his daring adaptations of the classics, including a 2015 site-specific production of Chekhov’s The Seagull, set at a farm in Maine, and a staging of Julius Caesar that employed local residents as a Greek chorus. Richards’ ventures into contemporary playwriting include the staging of the Pulitzer-nominated drama Dying City by Christopher Shinn and the Obie-winning play The Aliens by Annie Baker, as well as the west coast premiere of Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally by Kevin Armento, and a critically acclaimed revival of a three-actor adaptation of Crime and Punishment, by Curt Columbus and Marilyn Campbell. Among his theatrical avant-garde projects are numerous shows with Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant (an ensemble of which he is a founding member), presented in New York at The Ohio Theater and The Bushwick Starr. He also directed a 2013 play 400 Parts Per Million with Blessed Unrest (The Interart Theatre, NYC) and directs educational theater projects at Bates College in Maine. His acting credits include: stage: Gone by Charles L. Mee (59E59 Theaters); From the House of the Dead, Boris Gudanov, and Hamlet at The Metropolitan Opera; TV: Law and Order: SVU, As the World Turns. Richards holds a MFA degree in Acting from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University and a BA in Social Studies from Harvard College. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Directors Lab.