Richard Wormser has written, produced and/or directed over one hundred programs for television, foundations, educational institutions, and government. He is the originator, series producer, co-director/writer of a four-part television series, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, the story of the African American struggle for freedom during the era of segregation 1880-1954. The series received national acclaim and has won the prestigious Peabody Award for excellence in television programming, three national Emmy nominations, the International Documentary Association Best Series award, Cine Gold Eagle and the Chris Award. Several reviewers picked The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow as one of the ten best television programs of 2002. He has also written, produced and/or directed over 50 programs for television, and educational institutions, which have received numerous awards.
Wormser has recently completed the Emmy nominated PBS documentary Delta Dreams, the story of a dying community in the Arkansas Delta struggling to get back on its feet. He also produced, wrote, and directed Hubert's World, a film about an extraordinary mentally and physically disabled man determined to live a normal life.

Wormser has recently received research and development grants on The Road To Civil War, a three part PBS television series on America during the ante-bellum years (1789-1861) and is in production on Rethinking Cancer, a 60 minute documentary on non-toxic ways to treat cancer for the Foundation for the Advance of Cancer Therapy (FACT). He is also completing The Road to Removal for the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation on the forced Cherokee removal from Arkansas and the South in the 1820s and 1830s; and finishing production on Lives in the Balance, a documentary that followed four, very bright, at-risk school children through middle school. With Gilles Carter, Wormser is writing and co-producing Independence: The Native American Struggle for Freedom during the American Revolution.

Wormser has also written and directed The Elaine Riot: Tragedy and Triumph and Farmville: An American Story. Other television credits include: Islam's West (WNET); The Global Workshop (WNET); Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow (Coronet/MTI); The Fighting Ministers (PBS); Death for a Juvenile? (MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour); The Other Side of Victory (NEH/PBS); Up From The Ashes, (3-2-1 Contact), Joseph (HBO); Landscapes of Hope (PBS), Sesame Street (WNET); Other People, Other Places, (ABC); The Ultimate Machine (WNET). His projects has received major funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Native American Public Telecommunications, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Writers' Guild of America, PBS and the Amax Foundation.

Wormser is an award-winning author and photographer of young adult non-fiction. Among his published works are included: To the Young Filmmaker, Wandering, The History of Hoboes and Tramps in America, Growing Up in the Great Depression; Lifers: Learn the Truth at the Expense of Our Sorrow; Allen Pinkerton: America's Private Eye and American Islam. His books have won numerous prizes including the Carter G. Woodson Honor Book award. He has also written The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, the companion book to the PBS series.

He teaches at the University of New Haven, the New School University in New York City, has taught at the University of Bridgeport, and has been a guest lecturer at NYU, SUNY Albany, and the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.