Richard Carsey returned to Little House on the Prairie having conducted its world premiere performances at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis.  He has a wide-ranging career as conductor, pianist, arranger and actor.  For eight years he served as the Artistic Director of the Skylight Opera Theater in Milwaukee, conducting over 60 productions ranging from musical theater to opera.  This past year, Richard music directed HMS Pinafore and later Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris both at Skylight Opera.  Highlights include the world premiere performances and PBS broadcast of Richard Wargo's Ballymore; PBS broadcast of The Mikado; Floyd Collins; Sweeney Todd; and White Christmas.  He is music director for the world premiere of Joshua Schmidt's A Minister’s Wife at the Writer's Theater in Chicago.  He also premiered Harry Connick, Jr's new family musical, The Happy Elf.  As an arranger he is doing a new orchestration for the TYA version of The Wiz in conjunction with First Stage Children’s Theater of Milwaukee.  As an actor he has appeared in 2 Pianos, 4 Hands in over a dozen productions throughout the country, winning the Connecticut Critic's Circle Award for best touring production for its performances at Hartford Stage.  Other tours have taken him to South and Central America, Eastern Europe, and the Arab Emirates.   Richard is now currently in rehearsals for The Minister’s Wife which will perform at the Lincoln Center Theatre from May 11-June 12.

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