Richard Williams is an English theatre director, producer and teacher working mainly in the areas of dramatic and lyric presentation.
Richard Williams' career has concerned classics, new plays, music theatre and opera productions.
He wrote the stage adaptation of Clive King's Stig of the Dump for the Tabard Theatre, Chiswick, production of 2008-09.
[8] Williams's work as librettist includes texts for McNeff's community opera adaptation of Tarka the Otter (2007) and his opera-oratorio The Chalk Legend (2012).
His work with Nova Music Opera under George Vass includes stage direction of several contemporary operas, including Stephen McNeff's Prometheus Drown'd (2014, to Williams's libretto),[14] Charlotte Bray and Amy Rosenthal's Entanglement (2015),[15] and Joseph Phibbs and Laurie Slade's Juliana (2018).