As a writer,
director,
producer,
I create the things I wish to see. I write characters who are honest, expressive, and contradictory. I tell stories about real things around me and within myself in fantastical, dramatic ways. I elevate the voices of those with important things to say.
I have completed work as an assistant and production assistant to award winning directors in many areas of work, honing my skills and practice of creative leadership.
King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe’s Richard III (2024). Lead Producer.
A White Girl’s Understudy (2025) at the Chain Theatre. Tech Director.
BUG
Ada refuses to leave her apartment. A bug becomes something new. One-million bugs scurry across the stage. Ada and Bug attempt to figure out what the hell anything means. BUG is a new play from J.K. Richards that explores the absurdity of gender, the meaning of life, and, naturally, bugs. Originally written to reverse the narrative of Kafka's the Metamorphosis for a new audience, BUG tells the story of an insect who wants to learn how to be a human being and a human being who needs to learn the same thing. It is a play for cicadas, centipedes, flies, beetles, people who love life already, and those who try everyday to.
It was later work shopped with the Columbia University undergraduate group NOMADS and staged for a presentation of a couple of scenes. It was directed by Elizabeth Keller and featured Lourdez Sanchz Medina as Ada and Is Perlman as Bug.
Agamemnon
Agamemnon was directed by Jasmine Richards and had two showings in September 2021. It was the first production directed by a student through the Virginia Episcopal School Theatre program. In the production, written by Richards using a translation of Aescylus’ Greek play by Phillip Vellacott, young actors embodied ancient characters to study the traditions of classical drama, such as the role of the Chorus, and experimented with the ways in which we could expand and defy the expectations of the genre. Photos courtesy of Fisher Zhang
