His most notable productions include Spring Awakening, August: Osage County, Will Ferrell's You're Welcome America, and Porgy and Bess, as well as numerous premieres by Tracy Letts and David Mamet.
Richards was nominated for a 2020 Primetime Emmy Award[2] as one of four executive producers of the dramatic film American Son, an adaptation of the 2018 Broadway play of the same title.
[4] Born and raised in New York City,[5] Richards' mother, Helen Stern Richards, worked as a press agent and manager of many Broadway shows, a long list of which included notable musicals such as West Side Story and Shenandoah.
He has since produced over 50 shows on Broadway (many in partnership with producer Jerry Frankel), receiving Tony Awards for his productions of David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (2005); The Pajama Game (2006), Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater's Spring Awakening (2007), Tracy Letts's August: Osage County (2008), Hair (2009), Porgy and Bess (2012), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
[3] Despite the film's critical reception,[12][13][14] it was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Television Movie.