WILLIAM RICHARDSON is the multi-hyphenate millennial-at-large founder of In The Now Productions. He directed The Last Five Years; produced, designed lights for, and played Candy in Candy & Dorothy; and produced, directed, and read for Ahmad El Ruzzi in The Gaza Monologues by Ashtar Theatre - available to watch for free on YouTube now @InTheNowShows.

With a B.A. in Musical Theatre with honors from Weber State University, William is a member of Actors’ Equity Association. He was recently invited to respond to student work in Stage Management and Design for the Region 6 American College Theatre Festival, as well as to perform as a guest artist headliner for their student drag show. His work in theatre and emerging media has garnered multiple Individual Artist Awards from the Utah Division of Arts & Museums. As Thee Quarantine Queen, Ebola Cherries, she encourages everyone to wear a mask in public. Her shows Digital Drag is Dead raised money for Equality Utah PAC and Digital Drag is For Lovers raised money for a member of the community - and they are available to watch for free on YouTube now @MsEbolaCherries!

Directing: A New Brain (#1 Musical of the Year from Now In SLC Magazine), Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash, and Reefer Madness! - Dark Horse Company Theatre; The Mousetrap and See How They Run - Hunter Theatre Initiatives; World Premiere of The Door Swings Wide - Associated Actors and Technicians; original 30’s/electroswing adaptation of Twelfth Night and 13: The Musical - Egyptian YouTheatre; ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas - Ziegfeld Theatre Company; Assistant Musical Director for Smile: The Musical - Big Country Dinner Theatre in Texas; Brown Bananas, Editing 2020, and Asst. for Saturday’s Voyeur: Dark Light - Salt Lake Acting Company.

Choreography: sold-out runs of Chicago and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (Top Semi-Pro Shows of the Year from Deseret News), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and Gypsy (#1 Musical Theatre Performance of the Year from Now In SLC Magazine) - DHCT; modern dance works e pluribus unum? and The Morning Sessions - Desert Dance Theatre; original musical adaptation of Euripides’ Iphigenia in Tauris - Classical Greek Theatre Festival; original musical adaptation of Poe’s “The Bells” for con•tem•POE•rar•y - Meat & Potato Theatre; Co-Choreographer for Saturday’s Voyeur: Dark Light - SLAC; and Jesus Christ Superstar starring Ted Neeley from the film - Egyptian Theatre Company.

Stage Management: A Midsummer Night’s Dream - Colonial Theatre of Rhode Island; three seasons of touring Thriller - Odyssey Dance Theatre; Charette, Snapshots tour, and Place: Dancing The Green Map - Repertory Dance Theatre; Jekyll & Hyde and Assassins tour - DHCT; the Utah Premieres of Death of a Driver and A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Gynecologic Oncology Unit at Sloan-Kettering Memorial Cancer Center of New York City, as well as The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs and Diary of a Worm, a Spider, and a Fly, filling in as Swing for Pete the Cat and Asst. Swing for Saturday’s Voyeur: Dark Light, joining the union as Asst. for the Utah Premiere of Fun Home - SLAC; and most recently, a Play-by-Play Reading of The Dust People - Pioneer Theatre Company.

Performance: World Premieres of Silent Dancer (Michael/Dance Captain) and Saturday’s Voyeur: Dark Light (Swing/performed DeLay) - SLAC; as well as Beowulf (Freywaru/Sea Captain) and the United States Premiere of Around The World In 80 Days (Passepartout) - M & P. Regional Premieres of Hellman v. McCarthy (Ryan Hobbs) - Pygmalion Productions; Too Much Memory (Stuart) - SLAC; The Producers (Convict) - PTC; and Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (Conductor) - ETC. Utah Premieres of Candy & Dorothy (Candy) - ITN; Cock (John) - The Hive Theatre; Mr. Marmalade (Mr. Marmalade) - Good Company Theatre; and Dance Captain for Altar Boyz (Abraham) - ETC, a role he also served for A Chorus Line (Mike). Other favorites include The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (Adam) and The Mousetrap (Giles Ralston) - Old Lyric Repertory Company; Urinetown (Robby the Stockfish/Dance Captain), Xanadu (Terpsichore, Muse of Dance), and Fame: The Musical (Schlomo Metzenbaum) - The Grand Theatre; and now it’s personal, Burn This (Larry) - Utah Theatre Artists Company. He sang principal roles in Utah Opera’s Man of La Mancha (Anselmo) starring David Pittsinger and Audrey Babcock, as well as PTC’s My Fair Lady starring Elizabeth Stanley (Cockney Tenor/Charles), and was honored to join George Dvorksy and Haley Swindal in the cast of another classic, South Pacific (Professor) - Westchester Broadway Theatre in New York.

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