Richard Kent Green was born in Indiana, the son of George Green, a Kentucky-bred minister, and Lisbeth (Betty) Thompson, a New Jersey girl with deep New York roots.

Third of three boys (that's them up there - RKG's the tow-headed blonde between Sandy and Ed), with a sister (Lisbeth) three years behind, he was a typical middle-child - always vying for attention - and, since the age of 3, sure he would grow up to be a clown. (His Mom says he began entertaining from the cradle!)

The Greens moved around a bit, from one place to another in Indiana, then to Lynchburg, Virginia, then to Johnson City, Tennessee. Meanwhile, the kids & Mom spent most summers with Richard's maternal grandparents ("Mema & Pepa") in Seaview, on Fire Island. The family often had Christmas as well with the Thompsons in Saddle River, New Jersey. There were many opportunities to go into the City, for shopping, sightseeing and museum trips, and Richard always knew he'd live in NYC.

The family was also close to Reverend Green's Kentucky cousins and, thanks to the Rev's interest in flying, spent many a good Thanksgiving with them in Louisville, along with the occaisional vacation down on the family farm in Bear Wallow. (That's right..."Bear Wallow". It's near Horse Cave.) It was during visits with these cousins that Richard remembers his first stage experience, when the kids would put on a play for the adults. (Their favorite was "Rumplestiltskin" - for the production challenge of finding new and different ways to spin straw into gold.)

Richard discovered the joy of "real" theatre in a terrific children's community theatre program at the Lynchburg Fine Arts Center. Through classes and volunteer work, he learned his way around both stage and scene shop. At the end of a two-year technical apprenticeship, he made his acting debut in a production of "Daniel Boone" - playing two character roles.

Richard was now twelve years old, and that summer he was baptised into the family church. A month or two later, Richard's father left the ministry. Richard soon realized that his attachment to organized religion was superficial, and his need to figure out the "real deal" is slowly becoming a book - but that's another story.

The Green family moved to Tennessee, where Mr. Green entered into the general aviation business - teaching flying, selling small aircraft and providing charter service, and Mrs. Green went back to school, got her certification, and became a teacher. They were both supportive of Richard's interest in theater.
(Thanks for all the rides to and from "play practice!")

Johnson City saw Richard in community productions of "Carousel", "Hello, Dolly!", "The Trial of Mary Dugan" and, through the efforts of a very dedicated and talented high school choir director, Rodney Sturtz, "The Music Man", "Fiddler on the Roof" and the lead in "Brigadoon".
(Graduated in the Top 10% in a class of about 400 and
written up in "Who's Who Among America's High School Students".

Richard attended the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, majoring in Theater. He worked part-time in the Main Stage's professional-grade scene shop, was a paid technical director for the black-box studio, Theater 2, and performed on all the UT stages in "Our Town", "Rose Marie", "Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead", "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" (he received a "Best Supporting Actor" award for his portrayal of Senex), "You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown!" and "Dark of the Moon". But a sheepskin was not in his future, as he was soon accepting offers of work in his chosen field.

Richard spent a summer at OPRYLAND USA, sang-n-danced off and on for four years at MUSICANA, a string of singing-waiter supper clubs in Florida and, miraculously enough, actually found himself clowning...at a resort hotel during the summer of his twenty-first birthday!

He also toured some more. With the Repertory Theatre of America, AKA The Alpha-Omega Players, he and three other actors played four shows in repertory (one, an original musical adaptation of "The Drunkard", featured many songs written or co-written by RKG) - on the road in a custom-built van for ten months of "one-nighters", covering over 50,000 miles and 33 states' worth of theatres, schools (grade-schoolers through graduate students), country clubs, churches, civic centers, military bases, libraries...
you name it, they played it.

Finally, RKG landed in NYC. He took up a 3-year residence of study at HB Studio, studying with Edward Morehouse - who's still there - and the late Hal Holden.

He went back his musical roots doing some cabaret work for a year or two, then he decided to put his focus back on acting.

Richard's first contact with the world of acting unions, joining the American Fedration of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA), forced him to either change his name or take his actual full three names as his professional moniker. In short, yes, his real name is Richard Kent Green.

He studied for three years with Clyde Vinson (founder of Lakota Theater Company) and Clyde's protege', Madeleine Barchevska, studying the metaphysical dynamic of theater and both the psychological and physiological personalization of a character's reality...if you follow all that.

He worked with a number of Off-Off Broadway theater companies where, in addition to appearing in nearly a hundred new plays, Richard learned something about producing, directing, stage managing and lighting design. The best thing he took from these years was the friendship of many colleagues, some of whom are now working with him in the WorkShop Theater Company. (see WorkShop page)

For a number of years now, Richard has supported himself by "flirting-and-squirting" - demonstrating fragrances and hawking free gifts, cosmetic bags etc. - at all the major department stores in Manhattan. Currently, Richard can be found at Bergdorf Goodman or Barney's, as the rep for either PRADA or Quelques Fleurs. He also did a long stint at the annual TOY FAIR, pitching games for Milton Bradley/HASBRO.

Along the way, he's earned the three major acting union cards - working in TV (AFTRA), Film (Screen Actors Guild) and Theater (Actors Equity Association).
(see RESUME' page)

Richard spends some of his "leisure" time at the Actors Connection - a seminar house where actors meet casting directors and agents - working as a seminar host/moderator.

He lives alone in a charming two-bedroom walk-up in beautiful Hell's Kitchen (on the West Side of Manhattan, near the Theater District and Times Square).