![]() ![]() He also met present wife, Sheila Kelley, during auditions for this play. He directed several off-Broadway plays, including "Antigone" with a then just-graduated Angela Bassett in 1983. He initially disliked acting and studied to be a director. He returned to New York in 1975 and started studying acting at CCNY and eventually was accepted into their theater program. ![]() I was very lucky that he was there." After not bothering to show up for finals though, he headed to Colorado where he cut firewood and lived a hippie life. "In college when I tripped and fell over the drama program at the City College of New York, and went and got into the Professional Acting Training Program by fluke, and Earle Gister, who was, uh, had just come from Carnegie-Melon, and was on his way to the Yale School of Drama stopped for a little pit stop at the City College of New York for three years to run the Davis Center for Performing Arts. He studied at the City College of New York (CCNY) in 1973. He dropped out of high school and switched to night school because he could finish sooner with less work. Richard was born in Bethesda, Maryland, the middle of three sons of Edward, a real estate lawyer, and Charlotte, a cable TV and publishing executive. ![]()
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