Rich Norman Biography

Richard Norman has acted in many productions on the local community theater circuit with his favorite roles being in Camelot (King Arthur), Equus (Martin Dysart), Nine (Guido Contini), The Normal Heart (Ned Weeks) and Marat/Sade (the Marquis de Sade). Richard made his directorial debut in 1985 with Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean for Dover Little Theater. He followed that production with Marat/Sade, Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, and Wendy Wasserstein’s Uncommon Women and Others. For the Brundage Park Playhouse he has directed Agnes of God, Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart, Nuts, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Stephen Sondheim’s Into the Woods, Total Eclipse, Euripides’ Medea, Clare Boothe Luce’s The Women, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy and Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles, Neil Simon’s Brighton Beach Memoirs, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, The Pillowman, Bond’s Sweeney Todd, the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, and Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Hamlet, and Titus Andronicus. Since 2008 Richard has been the Director of The Shakespeare Initiative at Brundage Park Playhouse and has directed Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, Julius Caesar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tragedy of King Lear and The Tempest for the company.