Orlando, Florida, United States
Richard Width serves as an Associate Artist with the Orlando Shakespeare Theater and has directed productions of The Winter's Tale, Othello and Measure for Measure for the professional company. From December of 1996 through July of 2003 he served as OST’s founding Education Director. As well as creating all the department’s curriculum, leading literally hundreds of residences with both mainstream and at-risk youth in Central Florida schools, and assisting in the development of both the Internship Training Program and The Theatre for Young Audiences; he directed all Young Company productions including Troilus and Cressida, The Living Newspapers, King Lear, The Tempest, The Learned Ladies, The Merchant of Venice, Henry VI- Parts 1, 2 and 3, Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, and Cymbeline.
As an professional, AEA actor he has appeared for OST in over fifty roles including Orlando in As You Like It, The Actor in The Woman in Black, Bosie Douglas in Gross Indecency, Macduff in MacBeth, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Phileas Fogg in Around the World in Eighty Days, Marc Antony in Julius Caesar and "The Douglas" in Henry IV, Part I, Odd Henderson and Haha Jones in Holiday Memories, Andrew Rally in I Hate Hamlet, Valere in Tartuffe and as "Richard" in the Festival's 1997 and 1998 revival of The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr: Abridged. In addition, he has written an original play The Eclipse and adapted E.M. Forster’s Maurice, Edgar Allen Poe’s The Pit and the Pendulum and Jules Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth for OST’s Playlab new play series.
Nationally, he has appeared on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live, in several independent films (including Vin Diesel’s directorial debut film Multi-Facial), with the Texas Shakespeare Festival in The Learned Ladies, The Tempest, Measure for Measure and in numerous New York productions including Racing Demons, Macbeth, Spoon River Anthology and Michael Maloney’s production of Romeo and Juliet.
Locally, he has directed and performed as Edmund in the RS&C production of Lear, narrated and danced in Southern Ballet Theatre’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Orlando Theatre Proejcts productions of Wit (as Jason Posner) and Tuesdays With Morrie (as Mitch), acts as a C/T Associate Show Director for Walt Disney World and is a three-time recipient of the United Arts Arts Educator of the Year award.
As a stage combat choreographer he has choreographed work on both the high school, college, and professional level most notably for Rollins College productions of Noises Off!, Extremities, Macbeth, Twelfth Night and Streetcar Named Desire. He has taught acting, movement, and voice for Rollins College, Seminole Community College and the University of Central Florida as well as nationally with New England’s Rebel Shakespeare Company and The Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York.
He trained under multiple mentors and organizations including the Royal Shakespeare Company with Michael Maloney and Sheila Allen, New Jersey Ballet Company under Joseph Carrow, The Actor's Studio (NYC), McCarter Theater with Nagle Jackson and Penelope Reed and is a cum laude graduate of Boston University's School of Theater Arts studying under such luminaries Robert Chapline, Robert Morgan, Deborah Fortson, WA Finley, and Richard Seer. Currently, he can be found educating the next generation of theatre artists at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, Florida.

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Dance: Ballet Singing: Musical Theatre Sports: Aikido, Body Building, Fencing, Skiing, Snow Skiing, Soccer, Swimming, Weight Lifting, Yoga Voice: Baritone Musical Instruments: Piano Language: English Accents: American Southern, Australian, Cockney, French, Irish, Minnesota, New England / Boston, New York City, Scandinavian, Scottish, Spanish, Standard American, Standard British Additional: Improvisation, Modeling, Stage Combat