Richard Medugno

Richard Medugno has written numerous plays, many of which have been staged and several have been published. A graduate of the UC Irvine School of Fine Arts, Richard's work has been produced by many small theatres across the US. Recently, he adapted Charlie Chaplin's film "City Lights" into a stage play for ASL-using actors.

Richard’s memoir Deaf Daughter, Hearing Father was published by Gallaudet University Press in 2005. His drama for hearing and Deaf actors Silent Salzburg was produced at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont and the Pensacola Opera Company in 2006 and 2008, respectively. It was produced again in October 2015 by the Rocky Mountain Deaf Theatre,

Richard's short play Cyrano Truncated received critical acclaim in San Francisco at Pianofight’s Short Lived 2.0 in 2009 and was a 2013 finalist for the Actors Theatre of Louisville Heideman Award.

Richard’s one-act adaptation of Gogol’s short story The Overcoat was staged by Arclight Repertory Theatre of San Jose in 2010. The Overcoat and his adaptation of Gogol’s short story The Nose were published by Playscripts.com in the spring of 2011 under the title Gogol’s St. Petersburg Stories.

Richard collaborated with Oregon Shakespeare Festival actor Howie Seago on an epic drama titled Preying Hands. The new piece received a round table reading with OSF company members in Ashland, 2011 and a staged reading at Deaf Spotlight in Seattle, 2012. It was published in May, 2014.

Richard has also acted in a short film titled Sonnet 29, with his Helen Hayes Award-winning actress daughter Miranda Medugno.