In 2003, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley and his wife Bernadet formed Mixed Magic Theatre & Cultural Events, a non-profit arts organization, whose mission is "to build more literate and arts active communities and to present a diversity of ideas and images on the stage."

As the company’s Artistic Director Ricardo has garnered national and international acclaim for his page-to-stage adaptations of Moby Dick, Don Quixote, Frankenstein, The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: An American Slave and the poetry of Paul Laurence Dunbar.

He has directed over 40 plays and musicals that include Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Emperor Jones, The Tempest, Day of Absence, Romeo and Juliet, Lysistrata, Frankenstein, Moby Dick, The Spoon River Anthology, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Driving Miss Daisy.

Ricardo has been Artist in Residence at the University of Rhode Island and Long Island University at Southampton, where he directed and taught acting. He has been a guest artist at Eastern Michigan University, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Suffolk Community College, Johnson & Wales University.