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Richard Stratton is an acclaimed writer and filmmaker. His feature film credits include writing and producing SLAM, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance and the Camera d'Or at Cannes. For SLAM's 25th anniversary, the film was digitally remastered and screened during Sundance's opening weekend in 2023. Stratton also wrote and produced the feature Whiteboyz for Fox Searchlight.
In documentaries, he directed and executive produced the 2018 four-part series Gotti: Godfather and Son for A&E, based on his magazine article Godfather and Son, which earned him the New York Press Club award. His other works include America's War on Drugs (History Channel, 2017), The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row, Thug Life in D.C. (Emmy winner, 1999), and Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder, all part of HBO's America Undercover series. He produced Crude, which premiered at Sundance in 2009 and won multiple awards, including the Peace Prize at the 2010 Berlin Film Festival.
Stratton was the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of the dramatic TV series Street Time on Showtime. He also wrote and directed The Whole Truth, the Season Two finale of the series.
His fiction and journalism have appeared in magazines such as GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, and Story Magazine. He has authored several books, including Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen, Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia (2016), and Kingpin: Prisoner of The War on Drugs (2017). In February 2020, he released the third volume of the trilogy, In The World: From The Big House to Hollywood, followed by DEFENDING ALICE, a novel about love and race in the Roaring Twenties, published worldwide by HarperCollins on November 22, 2022.
Stratton has acted in films such as Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps. He resides in New York with his wife Antoinette and is a father to five children.
