Richard Hoehler

• Monologue Workshop

Richard Hoehler has written and performed four solo shows Off Broadway and on tour – New Jersey/New York, Working Class (OOBR Award Winner), Human Resources, and most recently, I of the Storm at the Gym at Judson. Richard’s newest piece, E, was featured at the Cornelia Street Café, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, and The Commons in Brooklyn and will soon be presented at The Lounge at Hudson View Gardens. Two new plays, Mars and Regular, No Sugar are in development.

For ten years Richard has led the Theatre Workshop at Otisville State Prison teaching weekly acting and playwrighting classes and mounting theatre productions every year. His play, Fathers and Sons, (formerly produced on Theatre Row) was staged at the prison in July 2019. He has worked extensively with at-risk youth in the South Bronx and Harlem and is an adjunct professor of Theatre at John Jay College for Criminal Justice. In 2020 he founded Acting Out, a professional theatre company for formerly incarcerated men and women. During the pandemic Acting Out presented four online productions, including a revival of Hoehler’s Working Class. His new monologue, A Monologue, was recently presented by Some1Speaking online.

Hoehler’s material has been optioned by Columbia Tri-Star Television and featured at the Midtown International Theatre Festival in Manhattan and Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Hoehler’s theatre work is included in Lincoln Center’s Billy Rose Collection and published in Smith & Kraus Best Monologues and Stage Scenes series. He is also the author of the award-winning short story Four Roses and his fiction and poetry have appeared in various periodicals, reviews, and newspapers. His newest theatre piece, Showdown, fourteen original scenes based on classic contemporary plays, is slated for production at the Lynch Theatre at John Jay in the Fall of 2022.