Richard Costes
Richard Costes is an actor, director, writer, and accessibility consultant based in Chicago, with recent directing work extending to Maryland's Frederick Shakespeare Festival. His practice returns often to Shakespeare and other classic texts, reframed through disability, gender, and access. He is currently writing and developing Red Peter, a solo show exploring his own experience growing up deaf, framed through the voice of the titular character, an ape who has learned to speak.
Acting credits in Chicago include: Mosquitoes (as the Bosun; Steep Theatre), In the Blood (as Reverend D./Baby; Red Tape Theatre), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Snout; Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), Opportunities of Extinction (Arjun; Broken Nose Theatre), Our Town (the Stage Manager; Redtwist Theatre), Vanya, or That's Life! (Astrov; Rasaka Theatre Company), and others.
Directing credits include: The Tempest, the Mark, Richard III, Twelfth Night, Kimberly Akimbo, Footfalls and Other Plays by Samuel Beckett, As You Like It, the Rape of Lucrece and others.
as the Bosun in Mosquitoes (Steep Theatre Company)
Photo by Lee Miller
Featured Artworks
A Midsummer Night's Dream
As Snout in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre)
Photo by Liz Lauren
Directing the Mark (Babes with Blades Theatre Company)
Photo by Joe Mazza (Brave Lux)
as Arjun in Opportunities of Extinction (Broken Nose Theatre)
Photo by Austin D. Oie
as Astrov in Vanya, or That's Life (Rasaka Theatre Company)
Photo by Scott Dray