About
Grayson Richmond is an actor (AEA), director, teacher, and writer.
Richmond originated his role in the premiere production of & Sons (winner of the 2025 Kirk New Play Prize) by Jack Angelo Cummings at Luna Stage. He also appeared in the English language/U.S. premiere of Apologiae 4 & 5 directed by Andreas Andreou at the Yale Cabaret and a remount staged with the writer, Academy Award nominee Efthimis Filippou, in attendance. Other appearances include Yura Kordonsky’s adaptation of The Inspector at Yale Repertory Theatre, as well as a workshop of Emily Breeze’s The Care and Keeping of You Pages 76-77 at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale.
As a director, Richmond has presented new work from Matthew Chong, Austin Riffelmacher, Andrew Rincón, and Max Sheldon at the Yale Cabaret.
He has been trained by and worked with leaders in theatre such as Chris Bayes, James Bundy, Ron Van Lieu, Budi Miller, a.k. payne, Mary Lou Rosato, John Douglas Thompson, Walton Wilson, Tamilla Woodard, and Evan Yionoulis. He holds a BFA in Screen Acting from Chapman University and an MFA in Acting from Yale University.
Selected Work
2026
Lecturer, Chapman University
(Introduction to Acting)
Teaching Artist, Elm Shakespeare Company
(Movement & Voice, Players Camp)
Teaching Assistant, Yale Summer Session Acting Program
(assistant to Annelise Lawson, Acting)
2023-2024
Acting Department Representative, Yale Cabaret
(Season 56 Advisory Board)
2023
Mentor, The Dwight/Edgewood Project
(Youth Outreach, Yale Rep Theatre)
Education
2025
MFA, Acting, David Geffen School of Drama at Yale
2020
BFA, Screen Acting, Chapman University
(Minor: Media, Culture and Society)
2018
Theatre Academy London (TAL)
(accredited by Florida State University)
Awards & Honors
2020
College of the Performing Arts Departmental Honors, Chapman University
2016
BFA Talent Scholarship, Chapman University