Richard St. Peter is in his fourth season as Artistic Director of Actors Guild of Lexington. His AGL directing credits include Stop Kiss, The SantaLand Diaries, Checking In,All My Sons, Fully Committed, Rounding Third, and Tartuffe. For AGL’s 2007-2008 season he will be directing Hamlet and Moonlight and Magnolia’s. Other credits include: Romeo and Juliet (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Centre College),The 22 Day Adagio (Mill Mountain Theatre), Lobby Hero (Theatre IV), The Laramie Project (Theatre IV), Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II (Live Arts), bash: latterday plays (Theatre IV), The Taming of the Shrew (Barksdale Theatre), Gross Indecency: The Three Trialsof Oscar Wilde (Barksdale Theatre), Jails, Hospitals & Hip-Hop (TheatreVirginia, Barksdale Theatre, Theatre IV), subUrbia (Theatre IV), Marisol (Firehouse Theatre Project) and StopKiss (Richmond Triangle Players).

He has also directed extensively with Theatre IV’s national tours, Virginia Opera’s Spectrum Artists-in-Residence program and TheatreVirginia’s New Voices for the Stage. He served as Associate Artistic Director of TheatreVirginia (2001-2002) and Barksdale Theatre (1999-2001). Academically, Rick has taught or guest lectured at Rose Bruford College ( London, England), the University of Kentucky, Centre College, Kentucky State University, Christopher Newport University, Virginia Union University, and Virginia Commonwealth University. In 2002, Rick received a prestigious Princess GraceFoundation Theater Award.

He is a 2007 participant in the LaMaMa/Umbria International Director’s Symposium held in Spoleto, Italy, a 2004 participant in Theatre Communication Group’s New Artistic Leader Institute (held at the McCarter Theatre at Princeton University), a member of the Lincoln Center Theater Director’s Lab and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers (SSDC). Rick’s community involvement includes being a 2006 graduate of Leadership Lexington, serving on the Advisory Board of Bluegrass Community and Technical College’s new Film and Theatre program, and sitting on the Board of Directors for the Downtown Lexington Corporation; regionally he serves on the Editorial Board and occasionally writes articles on theatre for Southern Theatre Magazine.

In 1998, he received his MFA in Stage Directing from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, VA. He is also the proud husband of actor and teacher Lara St. Peter and father of Olivia and Aidan St. Peter.