Blog by Rich

This is the 5th year of the Salvation Army's Territorial Arts Ministries' Conservatory.

Right now Carol Jaudes, former CAT and director of the conservatory, is asking students how they've incorporated things they've leaned during previous years in their lives. We're hearing about people starting dan...

08.08.05 04:58 AM - Comment(s)

This is our debut of Songs of Revival: Hungry After God Himself at Trevecca Nazarene University as a part of a three-day class for undergraduate and graduate students called How the Jesus Movement Changed the Way We Worship. 


We were scheduled to perform the "singing play" at...

08.07.05 04:18 PM - Comment(s)
That will stay with me for the rest of my life.
--Lydia Bayne
LaGrangeville, NY

www.RichDrama.com/JourneyToTheGarden
08.07.05 02:59 PM - Comment(s)

..staying with people who have The Creature from the Black Lagoon as their guard dog.

Actually the Saloomey family has 5 guard dogs (but only 19 legs between them). They get host of the year award for providing corn on the cob picked that morning, eggs laid the day before, and 1st c. accoutrements f...

08.07.05 02:29 AM - Comment(s)

I'm cruising up the Hudson en route to Poughkeepsie, where I'll perform Journey to the Garden tomorrow morning.

In my rehearsal this morning I connected in a very deep way Jesus' prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane with his final words on the cross: "Take this cup/Your will be done" and ...

08.06.05 08:43 PM - Comment(s)
On Sundays my wife, Joyce, and I commute out of NYC to attend a small church in White Plains, NY, ( WestchesterChapel.org). The pastor, Jim Warren, produced ads for Broadway and was the Creative Director at MTV before he was saved, and he loves to use all the arts in worship and evangelism. We've n...
08.05.05 08:21 PM - Comment(s)
We just had a fabulous time at the MasterWorks Festival, and you can follow our exploits in my June and July archives to my blog.

The artistic and spiritual seeds that were planted continue to grow as we've stayed in community through the internet: lifting each other up in prayer and encourage...
08.05.05 08:05 PM - Comment(s)

Please pray for Joyce as she recovers from surgery.

Pray for strength to return and for her to stay positive.

If you're not signed up for updates on her health you can do so and/or find out more at RichDrama.com/Joyce.
08.01.05 07:56 PM - Comment(s)

"I really enjoyed your presentation.  I have been a huge Eric Liddell fan for years.  I must admit I was a little skeptical about coming to see your (play).  But I was deeply moved by the message of your piece and also by the professionalism of your presentation.  Thank you....

07.31.05 05:58 PM - Comment(s)
I am still reeling from it as it was so profound.
--Dave Layne
Scarsdale, NY
07.25.05 07:04 PM - Comment(s)


On my trip to Bolivia with Compassion I came across an organization called Mission Year (MissionYear.org). Oreon Trickey was one of the Compassion artists on the trip, and she's on staff with Mission Year.

In a nutshell, Mission Year is, as the name implies, a year of mission work in an inner ci...
07.25.05 04:48 PM - Comment(s)

I just laid down the vocal track for a DVD we're putting together to promote some trips to Israel in which I'll be performing biblical sketches where they took place. Watch for details as they unfold.

07.21.05 04:10 PM - Comment(s)

Lilli Ramirez blessed us with a Flamenco dance entitled "Adios" as MasterWits held our closing ceremonies. Lilli and her husband, Hector, are artists in residence at Belhaven College in Jackson, MS, but the former YWAMers have a vision to found a performing arts center in Madrid.

07.21.05 10:47 AM - Comment(s)
...and CNN is on hold. The Green Grocer is planning on featuring our pears. Amazing what one article on the cover of the New York Times can do.
07.19.05 04:15 PM - Comment(s)
Last night my Dad was re-elected as president of Southern Oregon Sales, a pear packing house in my home-town of Medford, OR. This morning one of their pears was featured on page one of the New York Times. Those annoying stickers on fruit are being replaced by tattoos, burned into the outer layer of...
07.19.05 03:03 PM - Comment(s)

Martha (Graham) would have loved Rich's physicality, and his innate ability to maintain character and dramatic line throughout his performance.

- Steve Rooks, former Principal Dancer
Martha Graham Dance Company

07.19.05 01:46 PM - Comment(s)

Broadway level quality one night, complete craziness (and immense fun) the next.

07.16.05 10:19 PM - Comment(s)

The Kavanaughs, who founded and direct the MasterWorks Festival, invited the faculty and families out to their home amid the Indiana corn fields. Their neighbors own shetland ponies. Kathryn Wilder, 11, poses with 2-month old Triple Time.

07.11.05 12:50 PM - Comment(s)

During worship tonight we opened with songs about dancing before the Lord, and the Dance dept. brought them to eloquent life. We prayed over the dancers since their performance is tomorrow night. That led into an enacted prayer in which a dancer led an audience member's spirit to dance. From there, ...

07.08.05 03:25 AM - Comment(s)
Last night Carol Jaudes, who was on B'way in CATS for five years, blessed the MasterWorks Festival and the Winona Lake community with her 1-woman play, The World's Greatest Romance. It told the stories of Susannah Wesley, Fanny Crosby, and Evangeline Booth. Carol brought her Broadway-level sense of...
07.05.05 06:29 PM - Comment(s)

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