Richard Width

Background

About Richard Width

Currently a Hospice RN with Elite Hospice in NWA with prior RN roles at Circle of Life Hospice, Center for Hope Hospice, Atlantic Home Hospice, Morristown Medical Center and ER at Barnabas Medical Center, Width's career has included educating the next generation of theatre artists at Trinity Preparatory School in Winter Park, FL, work with The Orlando Theater Project, sitting on the board of the Garden Theater, being an Associate Show Director with Walt Disney World and serving as an associate artist and founding Education Director with Orlando Shakes where he performed in and directed over 60 main stage productions. He created all educational curriculum, led hundreds of residencies with mainstream and at-risk youth in Central Florida's schools, and assisted the development of the company's Internship Program and Theatre for Young Audiences. He wrote the original play, The Eclipse, adapted Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum, and Verne's Journey to the Centre of the Earth for their Playlab. Nationally, he appeared on The Guiding Light, One Life to Live, in several independent short films (including Vin Diesel's directorial debut Multi-Facial), with the Texas Shakespeare Festival and in numerous New York productions including Racing Demons, Macbeth, and Spoon River Anthology. In Orlando, he directed and performed as Edmund in the RS & C production of Lear, in OTP’s productions of Wit, Almost Maine, Tuesday’s with Morrie and directed Blackbird. He narrated and danced in SBT's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. A three-time recipient of the UA Arts Educator of the Year award, he choreographed stage combat on secondary and collegiate levels, most notably for Rollins College's productions of Extremities, Macbeth, and A Streetcar Named Desire. He taught acting, movement, combat and voice at Rollins, SCC, and UCF as well as Chautauqua Institute in upstate New York. In NJ, he is a founding member of First Flight Theatre Company performing as George Washington in Valley Forge, adapting Stoker's Dracula into a one woman show, Mina, and directing their annual production of A Christmas Carol. He partnered with Dr. Victoria Width PhD on the use of Shakespeare to address trauma for the Juvenile Justice Association. He works with Death with Dignity and the ACA educating on medical aid in dying for hospice patients. He trained with Shakespeare & Company, the RSC, NJBC, The Actor's Studio, McCarter Theater, is a cum laude graduate of B.U.'s College of Fine Arts and recently finished his first book "Walking You Home: Anecdotes and Observations of a Hospice Nurse."