Latest News: April 2013

Richard returns to the Folger to play Malvolio in Twelfth Night, once again directed by Robert Richmond.

Richard has recently finished performing Chorus/Monjoy in the critically acclaimed Henry V directed by Robert Richmond at the Folger Theatre in Washington DC and played the name role in The Clockmaker directed by David Savoy at the Sudbury Theatre, Sudbury in Northern Ontario, Canada.

 

In July, Richard will perform his his one-man show called Strolling Player at the 25th Toronto Fringe Festival He has previously performed the show at Kaufman Arts Studio in Kitchener, Factory163 in Stratford Ontario, and at The Red Sandcastle Theatre in Toronto.

Richard recently completed episode 4 of a new series Dangerous Persuasions for History Channel(Canada) and Investigation Discovery(USA). It's a co-production with UK's Raw TV and Canada's Enertainment One Television.

 

A long lost summer's day... from Richard Willis on Vimeo.

Richard played Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady in June/July at The Summer Theatre of New Canaan.

In December 2011 he was seen in an episode of Showcase's Lost Girl. In October he completed working on an epsiode of Nikita for Warner Bros.

In the summer of 2011 Richard played The Father in the North American premiere of the UK hit York/London play, The Railway Children directed by Damian Cruden.

He played the lead role of Conrad in the short movie Dreadful Sorry, a civil war ghost story directed by Robert Richmond and soon to be seen at slected short film festivals across USA and Canada.

He divides his time between Canada, the United States and the UK.