Michael karl richards biography

It was directed by James Purcell, a man who had been a professional actor for many years and would become my first mentor. Among many other things, he taught me the value of creating your own opportunities on stage.

That’s something I hold with me to this day and it was one of the reasons I would form a theatre company years later, to keep sharp between paid gigs and, more importantly, to remind myself of the absolute joy of being an actor.  

Of course, I was acting before that.

Michael karl richards biography

There were the plays in high school. The only thing I took seriously in high school was the theatre program. In grade ten I played so many dads that the rest of the class took to calling me “dad.” Later, even as I started to drift away from the rest of school on a somewhat troubled path, the theatre teachers would try to pull me back by making me a teacher’s assistant.

A kindness that makes me stop and thank Ms. Tomlinson and Ms. Conrad to this day. 

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