Richard Piper BACKSTAGE

Backstage with Richard Piper.
Richard joins Regina Botros to talk about his life in the theatre.

Richard has spent almost his entire 43-year career on stage.  Trained in London, he was soon performing on the West End in Grease and Elvis, and came to Australia in 1985 with cult cabaret band The Bouncing Czecks.  MTC: The Lady in the Van, Twelfth Night, Born Yesterday, Double Indemnity, Ghosts, Music, Queen Lear, The Gift, Drowsy Chaperone, Rockabye, Entertaining Mr Sloane, The Give and Take, Dumb Show, The Daylight Atheist (Green Room Award), Betrayal, Man the Balloon, Life After George, Measure for Measure, Comedy of Errors. Malthouse:  The Black Rider, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore. STC: The Secret River, Gross und Klein, Great Expectations, Moby Dick.  Bell Shakespeare:  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The War of the Roses, Henry V, Henry IV.  STCSA: Moby Dick, Marat Sade, Restoration.  Musical Theatre: Come from Away, Oklahoma!, King Kong, Billy Elliot, Rocky Horror. TV:  Wentworth, Underbelly.  Films:  Pirates of the Caribbean.