Richard Allen is Associate Professor of Radio-Television-Film at Texas Christian University where he has taught since 1993. He has also just completed a two-year stint as an Associate Writer for CBS's daytime drama, As the World Turns, Formerly, he was Head Writer at NBC's Days of Our Lives and has written for ABC's General Hospital, One Life to Live and NBC's Another World.

Richard is currently working on a musical version of the film Mildred Pierce. This project, to be presented at Stage West in April, is funded by a TCU grant. His original play, The Man Who Killed Rock Monnenoff, has been produced by Atlanta's Theatre-in-the-Square. Richard's Seducing Sally was produced at Fort Worth Theatre in 1999. His collection of 54 short plays based on the Torah, Parashah Plays, was published in June, 2000 by ARE Publishing. Big Shots, Richard's teleplay starring Ed Asner, Bonnie Franklin, Steve Landesberg, Lawrence Pressman and Jonathan Prince, was broadcast on PBS in South Florida as well as on the Jewish Television Network in 1997. His screenplay, The O'Hare Affair was optioned by Segue Productions in 1995. As a writer for As the World Turns Richard won a Daytime Emmy Award in 2001. He was a nominee in 1987 for Days of Our Lives. A three-time Writers Guild Award nominee, Richard has won a Soap Opera Award, a Media Access Award and the Environmental Media Award.

As a professor, Richard won the 1999 Delta Gamma Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence and in 2001 was awarded the Wassenich Award for Mentoring at TCU. He was also recently named to Jewsweek's list of the 50 most influential Jews in America