Richard S. Bailey

Richard S. Bailey is a former Associate Director of the Los Angeles Actors’ Theatre, and Producing Director of the San Quentin Drama Workshop. He was personally invited to work with Nobel Laureate Samuel Beckett at the West Berlin Academy of Art (1977). “His 2006 production of “Shuffle, Shuffle, Step: Three Short Plays by Samuel Beckett” received rave reviews from the L.A Times, Backstage West, and Daily Variety, and fulfilled Beckett’s request that he perform “Krapp’s Last Tape”. His other plays include “Bakk’s Tracks”, with music by Eddie Money, Window Pieces and several one-act plays. He is the recipient of Hollywood Drama-Logue awards for producing, directing, writing, and lighting design; an LA Weekly award for directing, and several European press awards as an actor.