Richard Barker (stage manager)

Early roles were Colonel Pointdexter in The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault and the messenger in Shakespeare's King John.

[1] He produced tours of Gilbert's Dan'l Druce, Blacksmith in the British provinces in 1876 and 1877, which (together with debts he later incurred in leasing London's Opera Comique) led to his eventual bankruptcy in 1888.

[6] As W. S. Gilbert, author-director of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, was in New York in late 1879, Barker directed the children's version of H.M.S.

[1] On 15 November 1898 he married American-born Regine Justine Hatzig (1867 – after 1911) at St Mary's church in Acton in London.

[21] Back at the Savoy Theatre in London, he stage managed and co-directed Arthur Sullivan's The Emerald Isle[22] and directed a musical play, The Willow Pattern, for Carte in 1901, followed by Merrie England in 1902.