Richard has worked extensively as a screenwriter and story editor, both in Toronto and Los Angeles. His credits include writing or story-editing over 150 produced TV scripts for shows broadcast on YTV, Teletoon, Disney Channel, Nickelodeon and many foreign networks. He's also developed shows for various production companies, written four TV movies for Showtime Networks, optioned several feature screenplays, and worked as a director and editor. In 2010 he was nominated for both a Gemini Award (Canadian Emmy) and a Writers Guild of Canada Screenwriting Award, and in 2012 another WGC award. He has also taught screenwriting at Humber College and Sheridan College in Toronto.