MY STORY
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CREATIVE PRODUCER & COMMUNITY ARTIST
Richard works with the private sector, local government, schools, arts organisations and the community sector to develop a range of strategic cultural programs and projects that engage community, promote health & wellbeing and promote creativity and connection.
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First as founding Artistic Director and then as lead Creative Producer with social change arts company Kickstart Arts, Richard has produced 36+ major community focussed arts projects and festivals with culturally, geographically and age diverse communities in theatre, film, visual art, music, digital art, performance art, animation and literature.
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In 2022 he produced A Big Day of Positive Change which included the Walkout Step Launch & Repurposing Ceremony for Kickstart Arts - the launch of a new public artwork by pakana artist Cheryl Mundy & sculptor Marcus Tatton. This marked the beginning of a brand new set of cultural spaces for healing in New Town.
In 2020 he produced and was lead artist on ReGenerate - an youth arts project focussing on regenerating social and cultural connections to nature in the face of climate change; and in 2019 he produced and was lead artist on Remembering the Future a project that explored our historical connections and an uncertain future.
From 2011 – 2016 he was Creative Producer, lead artist & filmmaker on The Happiness Project, where he collaborated with film makers, composers, artists and community members from Flinders Island, Levendale, Oatlands, Glenorchy (x2), Cygnet (x2), Geeveston, Hobart and Dover to produce 74 short films about the true nature of happiness.
Richard co-produced The Works festival with Glenorchy City Council in 2000 & 2003, employing 129 artists and attended by 25,000 people over the two festivals.
THEATRE
Richard’s theatre writing work includes Gorn! a skateboard rock & roll drama about suicide for youth theatre company Theatre Now!, Snorkel, most recently produced by Conspiracy Theatre Co. & La Mama at the Adelaide Fringe Festival in 1998, Wannabe, a group devised show for Terrapin Puppet Theatre in 1998, and Transylvania, (shortlisted for the national New Dramatists Award) produced by Zootango at the Peacock Theatre, Hobart, in July '97.
His dramaturgy work includes I don’t wanna play house, a devised performance by Tammy Anderson & director John Bolton, produced at the Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, The Tank by Stephen Thomas, which was produced for 3 seasons and a national tour by Salamanca Arts Centre, and St Valentines Peak by Franz Docherty
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