Livia Anne Richard (born 24 February 1969 in Bern) is a Swiss theater director and author.
The piece served as the basis for the 2012 released movie Someone Like Me [de] by Oscar winner Xavier Koller.
In 2010 Richard opened together with Markus Maria Enggist, Annemarie Morgenegg, Fredi Stettler and Hank Shizzoe in Bern's Mattequartier the theater Matte, specializing in productions in Bernese German, in which she was active until 2016 as artistic director.
[4] In 2016 she rewrote Romanian-French playwright Eugène Ionesco's showpiece of absurd theater "Rhinoceros", with music by Hank Shizzoe.
Unlike Shakespeare, Livia Anne Richard does not limit herself to the classic story of the two lovers, but gives room to the cause of the quarrel.