Richard Greenblatt is an actor, director, writer, and musician who has been a professional theatre artist for almost four decades. He was born in Montreal and studied piano for ten years with the late Professor Dorothy Morton of the McGill Conservatory of Music. He received his acting training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England. Since returning to Canada, he has performed in theatres across Canada and abroad, as well as in feature films, television, and radio. He has directed well over one hundred productions for theatres across the country, the vast majority being original and/or Canadian works. He has also directed many classical works, as well as the premieres of groundbreaking and award-winning plays for young audiences.

As a writer, he wrote or co-wrote 2 Pianos 4 Hands, Sibs, The Theory of Relatives, i.d., Letters from Lehrer, Care, and Soft Pedalling. 2 Pianos 4 Hands has played on five continents and in over two hundred cities since it opened at the Tarragon Theatre in April 1996. Greenblatt himself has performed the play with co-creator Ted Dykstra over 850 times across Canada and in New York City, Washington, DC, London, and Tokyo. He has taught acting, directing, and play creation at most of the theatre-training institutions in Canada.

He lives in Toronto with partner Tanya Greve and their daughter Amelia, and is the proud father of Natasha, Will, and the dearly missed Luke Greenblatt.