Richard has been involved in a number of award-winning productions including: The Belle’s Stratagem which won Best Ensemble at The Critics’ Awards for Theatre in Scotland 2018; and My Left Right Foot which won both a Fringe First Award and a Herald Angel Award in the Edinburgh Festival 2018.

Richard’s recent theatre credits include: Scots (A Play, a Pie & a Pint/NYC transfer); Jack and The Bean Pie; Milkshake and Write Off (both A Play, a Pie & a Pint); Scenes for Survival (NTS); Mrs Puntila and Her Man Matti (Edinburgh Lyceum/Glasgow Citizens’); Spuds (Glasgow Oran Mor/Sleeping Warrier TC); My Left Right Foot (National Theatre of Scotland/Birds of Paradise TC); Rachel’s Cousins (Edinburgh Traverse/Glasgow Oran Mor); The Whip Hand (Edinburgh Traverse/Birmingham Rep); God of Carnage and Harold & Maude (both Glasgow Tron); The Snow Queen; An Edinburgh Christmas Carol; Christmas Dinner; The Belle’s Stratagem; Jumpy; The Iliad; The Crucible; A View From The Bridge; The Merchant of Venice; A Christmas Carol and As You Like It (all Edinburgh Lyceum); Propaganda Swing (Nottingham Playhouse/Coventry Belgrade); Woman in Mind (Dundee Rep/Birmingham Rep); Ane Pleasant Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis (ABandC Theatre); Smalltown (Random Accomplice); Godzilla vs Mechagodzilla (Paines Plough/Glasgow Oran Mor); First You’re Born (Plutot la Vie); Great Expectations (Prime Productions); and Macbeth (National Theatre of Scotland’s Elgin Project). Richard was also an original member of the Dundee Rep Ensemble, with productions including All My Sons; A Family Affair; The Plague; Cabaret; and Flora The Red Menace, amongst others. He also returned to play Pirelli in Sweeney Todd.

Richard’s television and film credits include: River City (BBC); Karen Pirie (World Productions); Spirit of 1926 (dir Mike Newall); Ghost Light (NTS/EIF); Garrow’s Law (Shed Media/BBC); PC Elliott in Low Winter Sun (Tiger Aspect for Channel 4); Age of Genius (BBC); The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes and Arthur Conan Doyle (BBC); High Road (ITV); Taggart (ITV) and Bad Boys (BBC).

Aside from his many roles on stage and screen, he has also performed on several BBC radio broadcasts including comedies: The Ellis & Clark Show and The Knox Factor and dramas: Brothers; 44 Scotland Street; Rebus: The Black Book; Rough Magic; The Dead Hour; A Second Life; The Lady Detectives; and Benedict’s Rule.

Richard played Able in Don’t. Make. Tea. in 2024. He also played Ian in My Left/Right Foot The Musical.