For over two years he toured in Bob Wilson's production of Tom Waits The Black Rider, taking over the lead role when Marianne Faithfull became indisposed.
Work since then has included playing Sienna Miller's father in As You Like It (Wyndhams Theatre), and the revival of Kurt Weill's 1933 Der Silbersee (Silverlake) at the Wexford Festival Opera.
Other theatre work has included: Ghosts (as Oswald opposite Sue Johnson), Macbeth, and Chris Monks' revisionist Mikardo (New Vic, Stoke), Blood Brothers (Olympia, Dublin), The Caucasian Chalk Circle & Cyclops (The Scoop), The Glass Menagerie (Oxford Touring Company- European Tour), Hair (National Tour), Ayckbourne's Me, Myself & I (Orange Tree, Richmond), MTL's The Marriage of Figaro (Drill Hall, Vienna & Stuttgart), and The World Goes Round (Stephen Joseph, Scarborough).
Richards co-wrote the award-winning short film The Crouch End Negotiator (48 Hour Smoke & Screen Challenge) in 2007 and co-starred in Lucky old Bag the following year.
He recorded his debut album in 2009, called A Shining Truth, a collection of previously unrecorded songs by Adam Guettel, Michael John LaChiusa, Conor Mitchell & Others, which was released on 3 August 2009.