Welcome to the Conversation Richard Baird

Award-winning actor/director Richard Baird has done twenty productions at North Coast Rep.  He and David discuss his acting career performing Shakespeare, Pinter, among others.

RICHARD BAIRD is an award-winning actor, director and producer. Twenty- productions at North Coast Rep including: Amadeus, Walk in the Woods, Gabriel, The Father, Around the World in Eighty Days, Of Mice and Men, Travels with My Aunt; Way Downriver; William Faulkner’s ‘Old Man’, Betrayal, The Dumb Waiter, Ghosts and many more. Richard is the Founding Artistic Director of New Fortune Theatre Company where he has directed and appeared in Henry the Fifth (Craig Noel San Diego Critics Circle awards for Outstanding Direction and Lead Performance), The Birthday Party (McCann) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (co director/Valmont). Richard has appeared in regional theatres across the country, including The Old Globe, Santa Barbara Theatre Ensemble, San Diego Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Portland Centre Stage, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Arizona Theatre Company, Southwest Shakespeare Company (AriZoni Best Actor for Cyrano), Kingsmen Shakespeare and has directed for Intrepid Theatre and Diversionary Theatre. He is a proud member of Actors Equity.

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Our next conversation is with Tony award-winning actress Judith Ivy. She directed Chapatti for North Coast Rep.

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