Richard Fitch

Richard trained at the Young Vic and the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts. Between 2018 and 2024 he was International Associate Director of Back To The Future The Musical, which included developing the show from the first workshop, through to winning the Olivier Award for Best New Musical and launching the show on Broadway. He was also recently UK Associate Director on MJ The Musical at the Prince Edward Theatre, West End.

Directing includes:
Funny Girl (UK Tour), Ruthless! The Musical (Arts Theatre, West End), GROWL (UK Tour & China), The Importance of Being Earnest (Theatr Clwyd), Barnes’ People & The Moment Before I’m Powerful (Trafalgar Studios), Cinderland (Old Vic Theatre), A Kid Like Jake (The TS Eliot US/UK Exchange, Old Vic Theatre), Land’s End (Birmingham REP), The Hour of Feeling (HighTide Festival with Public Theater, New York), Bandstand, Legally Blonde, Once On This Island & Top Hat (Arts Educational), Urinetown, The Addams Family, Carrie, Fun Home, Flora The Red Menace & Violet (Mountview), Bonnie & Clyde (Institute of the Arts Barcelona), Much Ado About Nothing (Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts), Young Writers Programme Showcase(Lyric Hammersmith), Buro Four Event (With Old Vic Theatre), Last Man on the Heygate (Lyric Hammersmith), The Welsh Atlantis (Latitude Festival) and The Boy Who Lived Down the Lane (Riverside Studios & Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, Singapore). He has directed workshops at Birmingham REP, The Old Vic, HighTide and IdeasTap.

Assistant, Resident & Associate Directing includes:
MJ The Musical (Prince Edward Theatre); Back To The Future The Musical (Manchester Opera House, Adelphi Theatre, West End & Winter Garden, Broadway), Barnum, Assassins & Dinner with Saddam (Menier Chocolate Factory), Funny Girl (Menier Chocolate Factory & Savoy Theatre West End), The Spoils, Buried Child, The Ruling Class & Richard III (Trafalgar Studios), Urinetown The Musical (Apollo Theatre, West End & St James Theatre), Jack and the Beanstalk (Lyric Hammersmith), 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala & 24 Hour Musicals Celebrity Gala (Old Vic Theatre), Island (National Theatre & UK Tour), Bottleneck (Edinburgh), Clockwork (HighTide Festival Theatre), Jack and the111 (Watford Palace Theatre), Four Nights in Knaresborough (Southwark Playhouse), The Marriage of Figaro (The Watermill Theatre), Lakeboat & Prairie du Chien (Arcola Theatre), The Machine Gunners (Polka Theatre), Double Falsehood (The Union Theatre & New Players Theatre), The Captive (Finborough Theatre) and The Great British Country Fete (The Bush Theatre & National Tour). Workshops include The Changeling, After Miss Julie (Young Vic), Island and Jacob’s Death (NT Studio).