Richard Bischoff

Richard Bischoff was born in Cambridge, MA, raised in Canton, MA, where he caught the acting bug playing the dreidel in his elementary school's Christmas/Hanukka show, back when public schools could do that sort of thing, and before other religions and ethnic groups existed in the suburbs. This was an auspicious acting debut for a Catholic kid with Irish-German heritage. After graduating Canton High School, he attended Emerson College in Boston and majored in Mass Communications/Film with a minor in Communications Studies. Did he study acting there? No...he acted for fun in student TV productions, did radio DJ'ing and news, played hockey, and wrote stuff. After Emerson, he worked in TV production on news and corporate gigs. He ran cameras, tape decks, audio, helped with lighting, and got a great education in how a set works behind the camera. He then went into the corporate marketing world, and worked for a financial software company as a marketing writer. He knew nothing about financ