Richard has enjoyed a great career in hair, make-up and wigs for over 30 years. London theatre credits include: Hairspray, Piaf, Zorro the Musical, Evita, Frost/Nixon, Guys and Dolls, Parade, The Producers, La Cage aux Folles, Starlight Express, Contact, Thoroughly Modern Millie and Kiss Me, Kate.
Nationwide productions include: White Christmas, The Wizard of Oz and the enormously successful Little Britain Live.
Opera includes: Die Soldaten for Ruhr Triennale in Dusseldorf and at the Met in New York; Così fan tutte in Aix-en-Provence; and Death in Venice at the ENO. In London he is the Managing Director of Wig Specialities Ltd, whose film credits include: Titanic, De-Lovely, Star Wars, Wilde, The Mask of Zorro, Roman Polanski’s The Pianist, Disney’s Santa Clause 1, 2 and 3, Being Julia with Annette Bening, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Walker with Woody Harrelson and Lauren Bacall, and Richard Harris as Dumbledore in Harry Potter.
Television work includes: all three series of Little Britain, HBO/BBC House of Saddam, The Catherine Tate Show, French and Saunders, Poirot, Oliver Twist and Larkrise to Candleford. Richard is honoured to be personal wig-maker to Sir Sean Connery and Dame Edna Everage, while working with many great stars such as Albert Finney, Kylie Minogue, Jessica Lange, Susan Sarandon, Dame Shirley Bassey and Madonna for her Hollywood video.
Current plans include: the Frost/Nixon USA national tour; The Wolfman, a new movie starring Sir Anthony Hopkins; Wuthering Heights for television; and the Donmar West End season at Wyndham’s Theatre.
Please visit www.wigspecialities.co.uk.