RISHER REDDICK

Risher's Orfeo credits include Cliff in Look Back In Anger** and Lenny in Marisol. He also produced Marisol and co-directed Martha's (b)rainstorm for Fever Fest Elemental.

Outside Orfeo, Risher recently assisted Bob Walsh in directing Coriolanus with the Actors' Shakespeare Project. Other directing credits include Listening for BTW (Un)bound and Big Eddie for Company One's SLAM Boston. Regional acting credits: Desire Under the Elms (American Repertory Theatre), Queen Meg (Shakespeare & Company), Titus Andronicus**, Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure For Measure (Actors' Shakespeare Project), Romeo & Juliet (New Repertory Theatre), Mojo (WHAT), Comedy of Errors, Beard of Avon (Publick Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream** (Boston Theatre Works), Spinning Into Butter (Gloucester Stage Company).

As a Teaching Artist Risher has collaborated with and designed curriculum for The Huntington Theatre Company, New Repertory Theatre, Actors' Shakespeare Project, Boston Arts Academy, The Strand Youth Theatre Project, Belmont Day School, Fayerweather Street School, UMASS Lowell, Boston University, Boston Public Schools, Montessori Schools, and Shakespeare Now! Risher has directed Into The Woods and Once Upon a Mattress for the PALS Children's Chorus, and he recently directed three productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream with Shakespeare & Company's education program as part of a $40,000 Dana Foundation grant.

*IRNE Award **Eliot Norton Award