Richard Lovejoy is a Brooklyn based writer and actor.  He wrote and starred in the award winning feature film The Widowers, a comedy about grief.  His recent short Push Up has garnered awards and acclaim. He has been featured in All My ChildrenWe Cause ScenesRising Up: The Story of the Zombie Rights Movement, and numerous other films.  On stage, Richard originated the role of Franklin Elijah White in Stephen Aubrey's The Dark Heart of Meteorology, and has been seen in The Scavengers by Eric Meyer, Willy Nilly by downtown legend Trav SD, as well as his own plays Adventure Quest and A Brief History of Murder.

Richard is a 2009 NY Theater.com Person of the Year, and a 2014 nominee for Person of the Decade. Outside of his artistic practice, Richard is cultural critic who focuses on games, storytelling, and politics. He is a co-host on Gamers With Jobs Conference Call.