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Richard Squires was educated at Columbia University and studied philosophy at St. John’s College Annapolis. He has worked as an actor, director, playwright, and technician for La Mama Amsterdam, The Bread and Puppet Theatre, American Place Theatre, The Players Theatre of England, Brecht West Theatre, and others.

He was also the co-creator of Soft Gallery, an environmental performance theatre; the founding director of the Museum of Temporary Art; and a founding board member of District Curators. He is currently a board member of the W.B. Yeats Drama Foundation and the Piedmont Environmental Council. His essays, interviews, and reviews on history and theatre have been published in the Washington Post’s Outlook, The Manchester Guardian Weekly, The Atlanta Constitution, Performance Magazine, Gnosis, Alternatives Theatrales, and others. He has been a fellow of both the National Endowment and Meet the Composer.

Squires’ first play Feathertop was produced by the Brecht West Theatre in 1970. His second play, The Judge, was presented at the Protetch-Rivkin Gallery in 1973, along with his first musical work, The Second Play. In the 1980’s he studied composition at Juilliard and held a scholar’s desk at the Library of Congress while completing the Albion Cycle, for which a concert reading was performed at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C. in 1995. His credits in composition include music for The Second Play , The Fall of Albion, and CRAZY LIKE A FOX.

Crazy Like a Fox is his film directorial debut.