Richard Southern (October 5, 1903 – August 1, 1989) was a British theatre designer and lecturer, best known for his extensive pictorial documentation of historical theatre construction, the Richard Southern Print Collection, comprising some 22,500 visual images.
He also took a leading role in the restoration of the first American theatre in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia.
[3] In 1951, Southern designed the Studio Theatre for the newly formed Drama Department of the University of Bristol, where he lectured over the following two decades.
In 1964, Southern was appointed a director of the Nuffield Theatre, University of Southampton, on whose design he had worked in collaboration with architect Sir Basil Spence.
Southern was appointed as Technical Lecturer at Goldsmiths College in 1932 and of the London Theatre Studio in 1937.