Richard Crawford is a British theatre director and actor. He was born in Scotland and performed in many Edinburgh festival plays and musicals where he won best breakthrough actor at the Fringe Festival at the age of 18. Having started his career in the UK as an actor, Crawford is based between London and New York where among his other performing ventures he is also a member of New York's Actors Studio after being accepted into the prestigious studio in 2011. He is also a previous student and performer at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute. Crawford, a member of The Flying Machine, has directed many productions across the world, from Cirque du Soleil's Dralion, to the World Stage premier of Evanescent which he wrote, which opened to sell out audiences in New York and the comedy Filthy McNasty presents Dick Biscuit. at The Edinburgh Festival. He is also the Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Studio Lab, a collective of film and theatre artists based in Willamsburg, New York, and he is also a founding member of The New York Rebel Film Club. Crawford played the title role in The Flying Machine's Frankenstein, a Drama Desk nominated production. 

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