Career
Among other projects, he has served as producer, director, editor and/or cinematographer for numerous documentary episodes for Music Television"s True Life series including "True Life: I"m Gay and I"m Getting Married" and "True Life: I"m Working My Way Out of Poverty", National Broadcasting Company"s "Last Comic Standing", Discovery channel"s "Wreckreation Nation", Time-Life"s "The History of Rock North" Roll - The 70"s Have a Nice Decade", the television short A Day in the Life of Jenny McCarthy, and was co-director of the 1991 documentary Two Rooms: A Tribute to Elton John & Bernie Taupin and the Music Television documentary series Sex in the 90s. Bill Richmond received an Emmy Award in 2009 for his work on Music Television"s True Life documentary series. He was awarded a GLAAD Award in 2005 for "True Life: I"m Gay and I"m Getting Married."
He was a director on the first season of the Music Television reality television series The Real World: New York in 1992.
His association with that series came to an end when he moved on-screen and became romantically involved with one of the cast, Rebecca Blasband, when the show vacationed in Jamaica.
This incident led to the establishment of a production rule preventing crew members from associating socially with the cast. Before starting his career in video production, Richmond spent several years training to be a pilot at the Florida Institute of Technology, but had to leave that profession due to impaired depth perception.
