Richard Wright-Firth is a British actor, director, voice-over artist and dialogue coach.
He moved to Botswana at the age of 12 and completed high school in Gaborone, before returning to England, where he trained at the prestigious Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, in London.
Upon graduating, Richard joined the BBC’s famous Radio Drama Company, having been awarded a contract as part of winning the 2002 Carleton Hobbs Award. After leaving the Radio Drama Company he continued to work as a freelance actor for the BBC Radio Department, completing over thirty radio plays. Alongside his work at the BBC, Richard returned to Italia Conti as their Radio and Recorded Voice lecturer, and director of the final year voice productions.
Richard is also an accomplished theatre performer with over twenty productions under his belt, in various theatres across the UK prior to moving to South Africa in 2008. These include Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Mother Courage and her Children, Baal, Under Milk Wood, The Wedding, The Long Shot, They Shoot Horses Don’t They and Wilson in Joe Orton’s Ruffian on the Stair at the Landor Theatre, London.
Richard trained in rapier and dagger, single dagger, broadsword and shield as well as unarmed combat with the British Academy of Stage and Screen Combat and was fight coordinator on Macbeth at the Teatro Technis.
He was a member of To Be Frank, an improvisation and devising company in Liverpool for two years, headed by director and actor, Tina Malone of Shameless fame.
His TV and film credits include Muldoon in Starz Original series, Black Sails, Dave in Slumber Party Massacre, Maskey in Resident Evil on Netflix, Callum in Warrior, Petty Officer Ukkari in One Piece, Pinkerton in Lincoln on the History Channel, Saints and Strangers, Modder and Bloed (Blood and Glory), SAF3 and The Sinking of the Laconia, as well as several short films.
He has featured in a number of commercials, including MTN, KitKat, Euromillions, First National Bank, B&Q, Crown Royal Whiskey, Walker's Crisps and New York Pizza.
Richard has narrated several film documentaries, such as the 2010 World Cup Megastructures and Cruise Ship Diaries 2 for National Geographic, The Secret Life of the Circler and Chameleons of the World for the Natural History Unit Africa and Birdmen Racing. His commercial voice over credits include, the J&B Met, Design Indaba, Cape Town Tourism, American Express, Rimmel, Audi and MWEB. Richard also does voice dubbing for foreign films, voices training manuals for the hotel industry and audio books.
He is a dialogue and accent coach for stage and screen, specialising in British dialects. Credits include Vagrant Queen for SyFy and Noughts and Crosses for BBC drama.
He has worked as a freelance director on several local productions, for the National Arts Festival, as well as the critically acclaimed Understudy Blues and Court and Sasolburg Common Birds of South Africa for Canned Rice Productions, which he co-owns with Candice van Litsenborgh.
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