In 1986 Richard Romagnoli co-founded and has since been the Co-Artistic Director of the Potomac Theatre Project. PTP/NYC; Director, For PTP/NYC, private and public Zoom productions of Pinter’s Press Conference/Party Time, Howard Barker’s poem Don’t Exaggerate. His most recent ‘live’ production for the company was 2019’s Havel: The Passion of Thought. For PTP and other theatres he has directed multiple productions of Howard Barker’s The Castle, Scenes from an Execution, The Europeans, A Hard Heart, Pity In History and The Possibilities. He has also directed Barker’s Judith, Gertrude— The Cry, Victory: Choices in Reaction and Barker’s poems ‘Gary the Thief,’ ‘Plevna: Meditations on Hatred, ‘and ‘Don’t Exaggerate.’ For the worldwide 2010 Barker celebration “21 for 21”, he directed Judith with Jan Maxwell, Alex Draper and Stephanie Janssen. Other playwrights directed for PTP include Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Gore Vidal, Vaclav Havel, Pavel Kohout, Snoo Wilson, Howard Brenton and Tariq Ali. In Washington D.C. he has directed Dumas fil’s Camille (with Jan Maxwell), Pinter’s The Homecoming, Coward’s Private Lives, and The Importance of Being Earnest for the Olney Theatre Center, and has also worked with Project Y in D.C. and in Boston for Whistler in the Dark. He is a professor emeritus of theatre at Middlebury College in Vermont, where he directed numerous plays, including, most recently, Major Barbara, Havel: The Passion of Thought.
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Here We Go (2022) |
LUNCH: Director
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Hot Fudge (2022) |
LUNCH: Director
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Lunch (2021) |
Director
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Lunch (2022) |
Director
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Don’t Exaggerate: A Political Form of Hysteria (2020) |
Director
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Havel: the Passion of Thought (2019) |
Director
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The Possibilities (2018) |
Director
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Pity in History (2017) |
Director
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No End of Blame (2016) |
Director
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Scenes from an Execution (2015) |
Director
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Judith: a Parting from the Body (2015) |
Director
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Gertrude – the Cry (2014) |
Director
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The Castle: a Triumph (2013) |
Director
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VICTORY: Choices in Reaction (2011) |
Director
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Gary the Thief and Plevna: Meditations on Hatred (2010) |
Director
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The Europeans: Struggles to Love (2009) |
Director
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The Best Man (2004) |
Director
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No Man’s Land (2003) |
Director
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A Kind of Alaska and Pinter Briefs (2002) |
Director
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Vampire (1997) |
Director
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A Hard Heart (1994) |
Director
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Safari (1993) |
Director
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1992…are we having FUN yet? (1992) |
Director
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The New World Order (1991) |
Director
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Mountain Language (1991) |
Director
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Iranian Nights (1990) |
Director
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