Background
Richard Stillman was featured on the premier episode of the PBS television series Shining Time Station. He received critical acclaim for his performance in Lady Be Good at the Kennedy Center and the Goodspeed Opera House. On Broadway Mr. Stillman played the Clerk of Oxford in Canterbury Tales, and understudied Mummenschanz. Regional theatre productions include: Take it From the Top with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, Midsummer Night's Dream at the Alaska Repertory Theatre, Twelfth Night with Jean Marsh and Nicholas Martin, Man of La Mancha at Theatre by the Sea, and Hamlet with Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. He has performed at the New Jersey Folk Festival, opened for Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog, and performs every year at the New Jersey Storytelling Festival. Mr. Stillman holds a BA in Theatre from Dartmouth College, and a performing artists in the schools certificate from Columbia University.
For the past twenty years Richard Stillman has been touring his own shows to theatres, schools and festivals. His musical theatre group Two Silly Fathers Productions with mime/actor/percussionist Craig Babcock performs The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Aladdin and the Lamp, and The Emperors New Clothes. The Mythmakers, a storytelling and music duo with nationally acclaimed storyteller Gerald Fierst has programs that include: Stories From Around the World, Monsters & Minstrels, Music and Stories of the Renaissance and Middle Ages, American Tall Tales, and Jewish Folktales with Klezmer Music. Richard also performs shows with guitarist Paul Byrne that include: The Irish Balladeers, Pecos Bill Rides the Oregon Trail, A World Mosaic of Music and Dance, The Spirit of Vaudeville, Spanish and Latin American Music, Holiday Troubadours and Sea Songs Yarns and Hornpipes.
These shows combine original and traditional folk music, storytelling and percussive dance. Some of the instruments include: Scottish and Spanish bagpipes, talking drum, African kalimba, mandolin, ukulele, Russian balalaika ,Puerto Rican cuatro, and tenor banjo. Richard also teaches theatre, music, dance and storytelling workshops in schools.
In addition, Mr. Stillman plays with his own Dixieland band, a Country/Bluegrass band called Trail Mix and an Irish band by the name of Ceili Country at ceilicountry.com They were featured in 2007 at the Hunter Mountain Irish Festival.
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