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Leilani Wells of the Christian Performing Artists Fellowship, hosts of the MasterWorks Festival, is writing an article about my work.  She asked a followup question which I thought I would post: "How did you become interested in Eric Liddell's story?"

Eric Liddell's story was actu...
10.26.06 05:13 PM - Comment(s)

I just finished a run of three performances as the first show in the first subscription service for Morningstar Productions in Milwaukee. Alan Atwood, who tours with his own 1-man shows, is the artistic director of the company.

One of the highlights for me was receiving copies of a couple of letters ...

10.23.06 07:49 PM - Comment(s)

Joyce received enough response on the survey below. Thanks to those who helped.

10.19.06 10:37 AM - Comment(s)
Joyce resigned from Business Week Magazine and is working full-time on a masters in counseling. Appreciate your prayers as my one-man plays are now our sole source of income.

She's taking a class on statistics right now and she has been given an assignment of surveying iPod users. If you have one...
10.15.06 09:32 PM - Comment(s)
Every Tuesday iTunes puts up at least one free song. This week if you scroll to the bottom of their main page under Free Downloads there's a song called "Our God Reigns" by Brandon Heath. Encourage iTunes to give away more of them by clicking below...

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10.12.06 03:06 PM - Comment(s)
One of the characters in my play Five Bells for 9/11 was recently featured in an article on the front page of the Metro Section in the New York Times: Brief Journey for an Icon of the Attack on New York.

Father Brian Jordan is one of three characters the play follows. The priest makes his way on foo...
10.11.06 07:36 PM - Comment(s)


Joyce and I got to see a 25-minute preview of One Night with the King on Times Square last month.

Tommy Tenney, pictured here, wrote the book Hadassah: One Night with the Kingupon which the screenplay is based. Ultimately it's based on the book of Esther.

Peter O'Tool and Omar Sharif give great came...
10.11.06 01:28 AM - Comment(s)

My mom's cousins (left to right) Bev, Bonnie, and Ruth are visiting NYC on the fifth anniversary of the Oregon loves New York trip, just a month after 9/11/01. Ruth was on that trip and fell in love with the city, even during its season of mourning. So she brought her sisters along on this trip....

10.09.06 05:02 PM - Comment(s)

My friend, Alan Harrell, got there by playing cello for the Cleveland Symphony, and of course he puts in a lot of practice. :-)

He's performed last night for Carnegie Hall's first televised performance of the season. It will be aired on the 11th.

Alan is on the MasterWorks faculty, and it's his heart ...

10.05.06 05:04 PM - Comment(s)

Rich Swingle
@ the Helen Hayes Theatre
240 W 44th St, Ste 7
New York, NY 10036

10.02.06 06:41 PM - Comment(s)

Our first worship service in our new space was awesome! WestchesterChapel.org

10.01.06 05:37 PM - Comment(s)

Our church has been in the process of moving into a space many times larger than what we used to have. We just passed our final inspection after the remodelling we did to make a billiards hall work as a church, so we'll begin meeting this Sunday at 11am at 214 Central Ave, White Plains, NY. If you'r...

09.29.06 01:35 PM - Comment(s)

We had a mini-MaterWorks Festival reunion in NYC. Left to right are Leilani Wells, myself, Boyd Owen, Sarah Keyes, Christian Gonzolez, and Julie Mealiff. We gathered to watch Boyd's professional debut in a fabulous Off-Broadway production called Angels. It tells how Lucifer tricks the new angel of l...

09.27.06 01:02 PM - Comment(s)

I woke up overwhelmed with joy that I get to see as much of the world as I do. I coached architects and engineers through Graceworks down here in Oklahoma. I don't think we saw a single hill, but this neck of the "woods" has a beauty all its own.

09.26.06 08:30 PM - Comment(s)
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Joyce had business in Nice, France, so we arrived early for our ninth honeymoon. We drove up the coast, made a stop in Monte Carlo, and then on to the first exit in Italy for some gelato. It's definitely better than French glace or American ice cream. Then we drove down t...
09.23.06 05:18 PM - Comment(s)

...couldn't stay away from NYC!

09.23.06 02:32 AM - Comment(s)
Our church is moving, so this Sunday will be our last worship experience in our old space.

The chairs will already be packed up.

Our pastor has given me permission to speak about the extraordinary worship we've experienced three years running at Territorial (see links below) as an introduction to ...
09.21.06 01:22 PM - Comment(s)
I just met with Bill Hane, Executive Director of Bearing Fruit Communications, the group that did Beyond the Gates of Splendor.

There was an article in the New York Times this morning that mentioned The End of the Spear, which was produced by their partner group, Every Tribe Entertainment: Fox Unvei...
09.20.06 04:33 PM - Comment(s)
A friend of mine who is a professional photog just started a blog. Check it out: fritzphoto.blogspot.com.
09.19.06 06:22 PM - Comment(s)
Ken Wales, who saw my performance of Beyond the Chariots last June, has produced a movie about William Wilberforce. It was just reviewed in Variety. Eddie Cockrell described it as, "Crisply told and sincerely thesped, 'Amazing Grace' is a workmanlike costumer that distills Blighty's long battle...
09.18.06 04:52 PM - Comment(s)

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