Richard Rossi

Richard joined Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 1980 to appear in the Mark Taper Mainstage inaugural production of Galileo. In the following decade with BRT, he appeared in twenty-three plays and directed four school tour productions. He has acted and/or directed for Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Center Rep, the Old Globe (San Diego), the Oregon, Utah, San Francisco, Stinson Beach and Grove Shakespeare festivals, the Carmel Bach Festival, Eureka Theatre, and the Empty Space and Skid Road Theatres in Seattle. He is one of the five founders of the Aurora Theatre Company in Berkeley. At NVC, he has directed 32 mainstage productions including Phantom of the Opera, Amadeus, The Grapes of Wrath, All My Sons, Equus, Company, Amahl and the Night Visitors, She Loves Me and A Little Night Music.