Risher Reddick is a theater artist of many stripes with roots in Boston, Pittsburgh and Chicago. He cut his teeth as an actor working with many regional theaters, including Shakespeare & Company, The American Repertory Theatre and Actors Shakespeare Project. From 2007 to 2012 Reddick produced, directed, and acted in plays with his theatre company, Orfeo Group, garnering praise from audiences and critics alike and winning three Elliot Norton Awards for outstanding production. As a teacher he has worked with theatre companies and universities across the country and is currently on faculty at UMass Amherst. These days Reddick works primarily as a director, re-imagining classics and devising new plays both in professional and academic settings. In 2014 he led the devising process of a new play, Hymns to Future Tense, with Bricolage Production Company. In 2015 and 2016 he spent most of his time working at Steppenwolf and Lookingglass theaters, serving as an assistant to his directing mentors, Michael Rohd, Jessica Thebus and Mary Zimmerman. In 2019 Reddick directed a site-specific production of King Lear at an abandoned steel facility in Pittsburgh. Reddick is currently working on a new project, To the Table, a civic engagement piece using story, song and food to facilitate conversation between community stakeholders, and later this year he will direct an intimate production of Harold Pinter’s Old Times presented in homes throughout New England. Reddick holds a BFA in acting from Boston University and an MFA in directing from Northwestern University.