Richard will be appearing at this years Edinburgh Festival in Real Babies Don't Cry by Stewart Permutt. This new play also features Janet Prince and Amanda Symonds and will be performed at The Gilded Balloon. Preview performances can be seen at London's Jermyn Street Theatre on the 27th and 29th of July.

Richard will be appearing in 'Paris" by Cole Porter at the Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadlers Wells alongside Anne Reid and Sian Reeves.
Performances throughout March and April.

Richard will also be appearing as St John in the second series ITV's Ladies of Letters (starring Anne Reid and Maureen Lipman)

Richard also recently appeared in Edward Hall's acclaimed all male productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Merchant of Venice, playing Titania and Lorenzo. Performing in New York, Tokyo, Rome, Milan, Galway and throughout the UK.

"The moonlit romantic scene in the last act between Jessica and her husband, Lorenzo, played with a light ease by Richard Dempsey, is an unexpected high point.”
The New York Times (2009)

Last year Richard appeared in A Spoonful of Stiles and Drewe at Her Majesty's Theatre on 6th July- along side Gareth Gates, Barry Humphries, Clive Rowe, Joanna Riding and many more actors from The West End.

A live recording of the evening is now available.