Biography

Richard Kuhlman is an American actor, director and writer, born March 7, 1955, in Cincinnati, Ohio. Richard was always an actor throughout his childhood, and often directed his playmates as to what reality they should play, whether in a tree house or playing soldiers or cowboys. He was a member of Young People's Theatre as a HS student and won a Guildie Award for his role of Fagin in Oliver! in 1973. He performed and directed Shakespeare and summer stock musicals during his college years, attending Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, before dropping out to become the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare Festival of Cincinnati, funded by a CETA Grant from the Jimmie Carter Administration. Richard moved to Chicago in 1979, and worked steadily as an actor for Paul Sills Story Theatre, the Goodman, Second City, and TV commercials for 4 years before moving to Hollywood in 1983. He has worked with such film directors as Ron Howard, John Cassavetes and Robert Townsend. On stage he is greatly influenced by such directors as Paul Sills, Jon Jory and Tom Humphrey. He married Amy Lynn Stevenson, a fine artist and illustrator, in 2014, and they live in the Ojai Valley.

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