Richard Mills Allen
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Producer
Richard Mills Allen's resumé reads like a road atlas. He hauled wheelbarrows at a truck yard in Montana, flipped burgers in a small Kentucky diner, and deciphered foreign dialects for the Navy in Monterey. In Georgia he sifted classified chatter for the NSA; back home he pulled night shifts as a volunteer firefighter. He chased protest lines for a metropolitan daily, filled quiet airwaves on rural radio, ghost-wrote for political campaigns, worked discreetly in funeral homes, and produced live video feeds when distance kept people apart.
Between jobs he thumbed rides across the West-Vegas to Flagstaff, Denver to Butte, Albuquerque to Chicago-gathering stories the way others collect postcards. From Richmond to Paris, Augusta to Helena, his routes keep expanding. Now he writes screenplays: spare, candid, and stamped with every mile he's traveled and every face he's met.
Between jobs he thumbed rides across the West-Vegas to Flagstaff, Denver to Butte, Albuquerque to Chicago-gathering stories the way others collect postcards. From Richmond to Paris, Augusta to Helena, his routes keep expanding. Now he writes screenplays: spare, candid, and stamped with every mile he's traveled and every face he's met.
