Richard Kuranda

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Richard Kuranda is a creative voice of Generation X. He has multiple union status in the United States. He was the youngest artistic director and producing director of a Tony Award winning theatre. He is a lifetime member of The Actors Studio and Players Club, and the creator of more than 40 roles for theater, film and television. Kuranda has appeared in over 15 films, 20 plays and has directed more than 20 productions. He served as the O’Neill Center’s artistic associate and then the interim artistic director before being appointed as the Center’s first producing director.

As a lifetime member of The Actors Studio, a member of The Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers and the Dramatists Guild of America. His collaborations with Al Pacino, Bill Plympton, Chris Walken, Rip Torn, Estelle Parsons, Romulus Linney, John Bader, Bob Lavelle & James Lipton are noted.

It was Dean James Lipton who recruited Kuranda from his position at New York’s Signature Theatre Company to serve as Director of Professional Development for the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School for Social Research / New School University under the guidance of US Senator Bob Kerry. Mr. Kuranda is the Founding Artistic Director of New York’s Epic Repertory Theatre Company, a not-for-profit theatre company dedicated to producing in repertory. Collaborations include premiere works by Lee Blessing, Romulus Linney, Graeme Gillis, Melody Cooper, and JT Rogers. Since the theatre’s founding in 2001, Epic Rep has sponsored developmental work with more than 50 writers. Commissions include an adaptation of Tim O’Brien’s 1979 National Book Award winner, GOING AFTER CACCIATO by Romulus Linney.

Kuranda has also served as the General Manager of the Jose Quintero Theater (formerly the Kaufman). Mr. Kuranda holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Playwriting under the guidance of Romulus Linney and a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing under the guidance of Arthur Penn and Tony Walton, Mr. Kuranda also holds a B.F.A in Acting from West Virginia University under the guidance of Joe Olivieri and Ed Herendeen.

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