Richard Smith is a Scottish BAFTA award-winning screenwriter, based in Los Angeles and the UK. His most recent feature, adapted for HBO, was the Asian-set GARDEN OF EVENING MISTS, from the booker-nominated novel by Tan Twan Eng. It won Best Feature Film at the Asian Academy Awards, and was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Golden Horse Awards.

Richard’s first feature was TRAUMA, a dark psychological thriller starring Colin Firth and Mena Suvari, produced by Warner Bros/BBC Films. It premiered at Sundance. He wrote LEONARD, which won a Scottish BAFTA for Best Television Screenplay. His first TV pilot sale was a high-concept procedural to Will Smith’s Overbrook, for the A&E network. He also sold an original grounded sci-fi series to AMC. He wrote and directed the short , MONO, which was was runner-up in the prestigious BBC New Filmmaker's Award, and exhibited across the world.

Richard recently finished a six-part political thriller overseas, and is in development on a dark crime drama for TV in the UK. He’s worked with producers including MGM, Christian Colson, Ealing Studios and many others.

Richard has a passion for exploring unique worlds (whether it be a Scottish village, Malaysian tea plantation or 1850s San Francisco). He loves big concepts and the puzzle of adapting. He’s a history buff, politics nerd and crime junkie, and is mostly a sucker for a great mystery/thriller. 

Richard is represented in the US by Andrew Wilson (Wonder Street), and in the UK by Charlotte Knight (Knight Hall Agency).