Richard Warner taught acting at the University of Virginia for 30 years, where he coached such luminaries as Tina Fey, Ben McKenzie, Sean Patrick Thomas, Jason George, Sarah Drew, and Emily Swallow.

He was awarded UVa’s Outstanding Teacher Award, the Mayo Distinguished Teaching Professorship and was selected as an inaugural member of the University Academy of Teaching. An active member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA, he has acted in over one hundred roles in film, TV, and professional theater. His acting credits include Spielberg’s Lincoln, Patriot Son (winner of the 1998 LA Film Fest indie short category), Waking Marshall Walker, and Homicide: Life on the Street. His stage direction/acting credits include Hamlet, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Glass Menagerie, A Raisin in the Sun, Laramie Project and Driving Miss Daisy. Richard currently divides his time between New York City and wherever he is called as an on-set acting coach.