ABOUT
Born and raised in Rome, he has lived in Milan and Paris and is currently based in New York.
After studying law in Rome, in 2005 he followed his true passion and began training under the direction of Luca Ronconi at the Piccolo Teatro conservatory in Milan, where he obtained his professional diploma. Thereafter, he began working with a variety of theater productions in Italy and internationally, from Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 and Mozart’s The Clemency of Titus under the direction of Luca Ronconi to Dostoyevsky's The Possessed under the direction of Peter Stein, with an international tour that kicked off in Milan and continued through Athens, Paris, Vienna, Amsterdam and New York, among other cities.
He has always been drawn to multicultural productions. In 2011 and 2012 he was part of the artistic group led by Tunisian director Fadhel Jaïbi in the international project Frontieres liquides (Liquid Borders), produced by the Piccolo Teatro in Milan and the the Théàtre de Chaillot in Paris. In 2015, he was a cast member in Alla ricerca di Romeo e Giulietta (Seeking Romeo and Juliet), a collaboration between the Teatro Piemonte Europa in Turin and the Teatr Ślaski in Katowice, Poland, directed by Robert Talarczyk.
From 2013 to 2017 he worked extensively with Turin’s Teatro Piemonte Europa in a variety of shows, including Beppe Navello’s production of Il Divorzio by Vittorio Alfieri and The Three Musketeers, a musical play in eight episodes, with eight directors, in which he played the irreverent Duke of Buckingham. In 2017 he was cast as Baron Tuzenbach in Chekhov’s Three Sisters at the Piccolo Teatro, directed by Emiliano Bronzino.
In 2018, he began working with director Aleksey Burago and the off-Broadway Theater86 ensemble in New York, appearing in a stage adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita. Subsequently he appeared in The Rise and Fall of Macondo, an adaptation of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez, and Lambs for Slaughter, a theatrical adaptation of four Roald Dahl short stories. In 2023, he was cast as Antonio Salieri in Alexander Pushkin’s Mozart and Salieri.
Outside of acting, Riccardo contributed to the translation of Carlo Goldoni’s The Venetian Twins for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and served as dramaturg for the Theater86 production of Dante’s Inferno. He was selected to become a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab in 2018. He is a Certified Movement Analyst (CMA) after completing the Laban/Bartenieff Institute for Movement Studies program in Brooklyn and continues to incorporate the Laban approach in his theater work.
He’s a proud dad of two.