Richard Width

Richard Width (AEA) performed or directed over 70 mainstage, young company, residency and staged reading productions with Orlando Shakespeare Theater (OST) including Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet, Valere in Tartuffe, Marc Antony in Julius Caesar, Orlando in As You Like It and Phileas Fogg in the Southeast premier of Around the World in 80 Days. He directed the critically acclaimed mainstage productions of The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Othello and 2010 production of Hamlet as well as adapted Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Forster’s Maurice and Poe’s Pit and the Pendulum for the stage as a part of their new play development program. As a member of Orlando Theatre Project (OTP) he performed Jason Posner in Wit and George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, directed the...

Richard Width (AEA) performed or directed over 70 mainstage, young company, residency and staged reading productions with Orlando Shakespeare Theater (OST) including Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet, Valere in Tartuffe, Marc Antony in Julius Caesar, Orlando in As You Like It and Phileas Fogg in the Southeast premier of Around the World in 80 Days. He directed the critically acclaimed mainstage productions of The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure, Othello and 2010 production of Hamlet as well as adapted Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Forster’s Maurice and Poe’s Pit and the Pendulum for the stage as a part of their new play development program. As a member of Orlando Theatre Project (OTP) he performed Jason Posner in Wit and George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life, directed the Central Florida premier of Blackbird and played Mitch Albom in the Southeastern premiere of Tuesdays with Morrie. He has worked in numerous regional theaters and appeared nationally on Guiding Light, One Life to Live, and Vin Diesel’s directorial debut film Multi Facial. Most recently, he appeared as Henry II in The Lion in Winter with Shakespeare on the Fly, with First Flight Theater Company as Sverre in White Desert and Samuel Pepys in the award winning ‘zoomie’ film A Vampire Kiss in the Plague of 1666, in multiple AK Films web series including Catitude, The Gym, Cosplay, The VonDo Angency, and as ‘Dad’ in the independent short Framed. He directed, taught, and choreographed combat in the Central Florida area for 14 years for such institutions as Rollins College, Seminole State College and the University of Central Florida, is a former board member of The Garden Theatre, the founding Education Director for OST (creating all its curriculum for in-school residencies, summer programming and internship training program), a former full-time Fine Arts faculty member at Trinity Preparatory School, has taught with Special Studies branch of Chautauqua Institute, presented workshops for the NJ Juvenile Detention Association on the use of Shakespeare with incarcerated youth to address trauma and holds a BFA in Theater (cum laude) from Boston University. He has trained with McCarter Theater, The Actor’s Studio as well as Shakespeare and Company. Currently, he is a First Flight Theatre board member facilitating the company’s return to live theater this season playing George Washington in Maxwell Anderson’s Valley Forge, adapting Bram Stoker’s Dracula into a one woman show titled Mina and directing the company’s signature production of Dickens by Candlelight: A Christmas Carol while working full time as a Hospice RN in the northern NJ area.

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Scripts

Profession/Confession

by Richard Width

Cast Size
1
Genre
drama

single actor monologue snapshot of a moment in the life of a hospice nurse

single actor monologue snapshot of a moment in the life of a hospice nurse

Agency

by Richard Width

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
drama

A new hospice nurse meets with her first hospice patient and both are illuminated as they discuss the nature of healthcare and dying.

A new hospice nurse meets with her first hospice patient and both are illuminated as they discuss the nature of healthcare and dying.

All We Are, All We'll Be

by Richard Width

Cast Size
2
Genre
drama

A Marine Corp psychologist and his soldier patient's forbidden love for each other hinges on the soldier's ability to move past their denied love for their own authentic self.

A Marine Corp psychologist and his soldier patient's forbidden love for each other hinges on the soldier's ability to move past their denied love for their own authentic self.

Maurice

by Richard Width

Cast Size
6
Genre
adaptation,
drama

Six actor adaptation of EM Forster's semi-autobiographical coming of age novel set in Edwardian England

Six actor adaptation of EM Forster's semi-autobiographical coming of age novel set in Edwardian England

In Her Garden at Eden

by Richard Width

Cast Size
2
Genre
comedy,
fable/folktale,
fantasy

An ageless woman notices a strange young man has been surreptitiously visiting her garden and engages him in a far ranging conversation touching on the nature of truth, reality and story.

An ageless woman notices a strange young man has been surreptitiously visiting her garden and engages him in a far ranging conversation touching on the nature of truth, reality and story.

Journey to the Center of the Earth

by Richard Width

Cast Size
1
Genre
adaptation

Axel Lidenbrock provides the assembled audience the details of his thrilling adventure to the center of the Earth.

Axel Lidenbrock provides the assembled audience the details of his thrilling adventure to the center of the Earth.

Mina

by Richard Width

Cast Size
1
Genre
adaptation

Mina relates the classic story of Dracula from her perspective to the assembled audience hoping to galvanize them to protect themselves and Britain itself from this supernatural threat.

Mina relates the classic story of Dracula from her perspective to the assembled audience hoping to galvanize them to protect themselves and Britain itself from this supernatural threat.