Cody Renard Richard

Cody Renard Richard is a Tony Award winning Producer, Advocate, Educator, and professional Stage Manager with a career that spans many genres including Broadway, Television, Cirque Du Soleil and Opera. On Broadway, he has worked as a full time and substitute Stage Manager for 20 productions and is currently the Production Stage Manager for the Revival of Ragtime on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater. Other favorite SM credits include: Lempicka, Sweeney Todd (’23 Revival), Into the Woods (’22 Revival), Freestyle Love Supreme, Hamilton, Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Annie Live!, VMAs, Tony Awards, and 11 productions with NY City Center Encores!.

As a producer, Cody has Co-Produced the Broadway revival of Parade (Tony Award), A Strange Loop (Tony Award), Thoughts of a Colored Man, the revival of Othello starring Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal, as well as the National Tour Moulin Rouge. On top of his production credits, he’s an adjunct professor at Columbia University after previously serving as adjunct faculty at New York University and Fordham University. He has actively worked with numerous organizations including Broadway Advocacy Coalition where he founded The Cody Renard Richard Scholarship Program for aspiring BIPOC theatre makers. The program is now run in partnership with Black Theatre Coalition. He is also a founding member of RISE Theatre Directory; a theatrical database geared to uplift underrepresented individuals in the theatre.

As an advocate for change and equity, he has appeared live on CNN and has been interviewed on WNBC and NY1. Cody made an appearance on the Kelly Clarkson show in May 2025 and has been profiled as the cover story for SWERV Magazine in 2023 and has been featured by Variety Magazine as one of their 2020 Broadway Players to Watch, Out Magazine as a 2020 OUT100 honoree and in Forbes, among other publications. He was recently honored by the Kennedy Center as a part of their Next 50 list and is the recipient of the 2020 Webster University’s Young Alumni Award and the 2020 Native Son Next Award. He holds a BFA in Stage Management from Webster Conservatory and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Directors Guild of America. Cody also sits on the Board of Trustees for Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS.