Richard Stillman

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Instruments: 

Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Ukulele, Five String & Tenor Banjo, Bagpipes, Tenor Guitar, Mandola, Octave Mandolin, Pennywhistle, Harmonica, Concertina, Tinwhistle, Didgeridoo, Bodhran, Balalaika, Tap Dancing

Music Genres: 

Country, Irish, Bluegrass, Western Swing, Broadway, Musical Theater, Dixieland, Folk, Italian

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I have performed as a musician actor singer storyteller and tap dancer on Broadway The Kennedy Center and at theaters and festivals from New Jersey to Alaska. I studied banjo mandolin ukulele and guitar with the great vaudeville musician Roy Smeck. He is featured in Al Jolson's first talking picture 'The Jazz Singer'. I have played for many years in my own Dixieland Swing Country Bluegrass and Irish bands. My Irish band by the name of Ceili Country was featured in 2007 at the Hunter Mountain Irish Festival. Because I have worked as an actor and singer on Broadway I am also useful coaching singers folk musicians and actors with material they are working on.

I ALSO TEACH LESSONS ON SKYPE. Richard Stillman was featured as a banjo player/singer on the premier episode of the PBS television series Shining Time Station. He received critical acclaim for his performance as a singing banjo and ukulele player in Lady Be Good at the Kennedy Center and the Goodspeed Opera House. On Broadway Mr. Stillman played the Clerk of Oxford and played mandolin and bagpipes in Canterbury Tales and understudied Mummenschanz. Regional theatre productions in which Richard worked as an actor/composer/musician include: Take it From the Top with Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee Midsummer Night's Dream at the Alaska Repertory Theatre Twelfth Night with Jean Marsh and Nicholas Martin Man of La Mancha at Theatre by the Sea and Hamlet with Rip Torn and Geraldine Page. He has performed at the New Jersey Folk Festival opened for Jim Henson and Kermit the Frog and performs every year as a musician and storyteller at the New Jersey Storytelling Festival.

Education: 

banjo, mandolin, ukulele & guitar- Roy Smeck Dartmouth College B.A.

American Musical and Dramatic Academy-NYC Musical Theater

Columbia Musical Performing Artists in the Schools Certificate

Testimonials: 

'...executed with a deftly offhanded bravura...'
--Stephen Holden, The New York Times

'...sheer stage magic...'
--Thomas M. Disch, The Nation
'...a real show stopper...'
--Marilyn Stasio, The New York Post

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Banjo Player in "Lady Be Good" NY Times

THE STAGE: 'LADY BE GOOD' By STEPHEN HOLDEN Published: July 29, 1987 MIDWAY through the first act of ''Lady, Be Good!,'' the 1924 Gershwin musical being revived by the Goodspeed Opera House, in East...

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Ukuleles in the Mix

This is my CD album which is a mix of Dixieland, Swing, Irish, Country and Bluegrass tunes. Some are traditional and some are original. Instruments used include: tenor and 5 string banjos, mandolin,...

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