Richard Epp
Richard Epp is a playwright and actor educated at the universities of Saskatchewan and Victoria. His full-length plays include Treasures (royalty in comic crisis), winner of the Alberta Culture Playwriting Competition (1978); Christmas Pudding (a school concert gone comically wrong), produced by Southern Stage, Lethbridge (1982); Kristallnacht (a young woman confronts a German POW on a Southern Alberta farm), first performed at the University of Lethbridge (1985), then by Edmonton’s Theatre Network (1986); and Japango (on the voyages of Columbus) had a staged reading by the Missouri Repertory Theatre of Kansas City (1991), and a production by the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park (1992).
Intimate Admiration (on the marriage of Anton Chekhov and Olga Knipper) was given a limited run at Theatre Calgary (1986) and then appeared at the Stratford Festival on the Avon Theatre with John Neville and Lucy Peacock (1987). CBC Radio, in its Stratford Festival Series, recorded the play with the same cast (1995). Monologues from Intimate Admiration, as well as Kristallnacht, appear in Tony Hamill’s The Perfect Piece (1991), You’re Making a Scene (1993), and Another Perfect Piece (1995).
Richard’s screenplay Winter Pond (on the wartime internment of Japanese Canadians) placed 2nd in the Alberta Television and Film Institute Screenwriting Competition (1995) and was later adapted for the stage and performed at the University of Lethbridge.
Following a lengthy academic career, Richard lives in Victoria with his wife Gwenyth.
