Blog by Rich

Off West Broadway Theatre Company was instrumental in me getting started as an actor. While I was living at The Lamb's Church they began to produce plays in the smaller of their two Off-Broadway theatres. I showed up to help with construction and painting and anything that needed to be done. Before...

I put together tours across America the summers of 1994 and 1995, so I'm pretty sure I got the date right on this. We're in Bryant Park, Midtown Manhattan for Mac Nelson's birthday party. He was best man at our wedding. 

While I was an intern at The Lamb's Church of the Nazarene on Times Square from 1993 to 1998 I performed in a number of productions in both the main Off-Broadway stage and the smaller black box theatre. That space went back and forth between Off-Broadway and Off-Off-Broadway status by adding or rem...

In July of 1995 I stopped accepting any work that wasn't connected in some way to the performing arts. So I haven't had a 9-5 since 95! Praise the Lord!

I arrived in NYC in 1993, and my friend, Dorothy G. Ubben, is posting some great photos from the four years I lived at The Lamb's Church when it was on Times Square in a building designed by Stanford White (known for his iconic structures throughout the Eastern Seaboard). I lived on the sixth floor...

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Mary Dyer being led to her hanging. Nineteenth c. artist unknown.

When I was in seminary I had a Church History class with Dr. Richard Lovelace, a student of Yale College, Westminster Seminary and Princeton Theological Seminary. He gave us a list of Church history figures, and we were to write a pap...