Blog by Rich


Wednesday at 8:27pm Dr. Patrick Kavanaugh was abducted by a giant slow loris. Brandon Langeland was named as the interim Festival director. His first order of business was to conduct a Town Hall discussion and vote on whether or not Chewbacca's belching should initiate a ban on extra-terrestrial be...
06.30.11 01:32 PM - Comment(s)

The MasterWits are prepping for our improv tonight with some brewskies: microbrewed cream soda and ginger ale.

06.29.11 08:09 PM - Comment(s)

Our theatre program was well represented in Sunday morning's service with Brandon Langeland's sketch, "Bear Witness". Actors, from left to right, are Josh Knox, Danny Cornett and Brandon Langeland.



06.29.11 01:28 AM - Comment(s)
Just before MasterWorks started this year I took a four-day course on Whole Brain® Thinking. I used some of what I'd learned with our MasterWorks students to help them understand how they and the characters they played think.

06.27.11 07:30 PM - Comment(s)


We just wrapped week one at MasterWorks, and what a great group of actors! We have half of Cyrano de Bergerac blocked, honors recital audition prep is coming along, and we are on the eve of the arrival of our first master class artist, Curt Cloninger, the first actor I ever saw doing a one-man play...
06.25.11 06:55 PM - Comment(s)
This is the card I sent my dad. The main photo is him as Capt. Zapp, an air show clown. From the left to right the other photos show him at a race in college, smudging in his orchard, and flying a gyrocopter he invented.

You've been a huge inspiration, Dad! Have a wonderful Father's Day.
Love,...
06.19.11 08:26 AM - Comment(s)
Lindsey Fredrick wrote up our program notes for our theatre production at the MasterWorks Festival this summer: Cyrano de Bergerac
06.11.11 11:25 PM - Comment(s)
Terry Ewell, bassoon instructor at MasterWorks and Towson University, composed music to accompany excerpts from John Milton's epic poem, Paradise Lost. We performed the piece at the International Double Reed Festival in Tempe, AZ, and we had many positive responses. While walking around the campus ...
06.08.11 03:21 PM - Comment(s)

  Terry Ewell, who composed and produced our recent performances of Paradise Lost just wrote a devotion for his church: Be a Good Example.
06.08.11 03:04 PM - Comment(s)

I'm in Memphis to help lead a workshop. This is the first sign I've seen of residual damage from their recent floods, but I've heard there's still water standing further south.

06.07.11 09:32 AM - Comment(s)

The performance went off without a hitch, and we received a lot of positive feedback.

06.02.11 08:37 PM - Comment(s)

My friend and fellow MasterWorks (http://MasterWorksFestival.org) faculty member Matt Morris performed in Gammage Hall on the amazing campus of the Arizona State Sun Devils. I'll perform Paradise Lost (http://RichDrama.com/ParadiseLost) tomorrow in a different building as a part of the same Internat...

06.02.11 03:18 AM - Comment(s)

I just arrived at the University of Arizona in Tempe, AZ, to perform Paradise Lost (http://RichDrama.com/ParadiseLost). My cab driver was from Iraq, so I practiced a few Arabic phrases I picked up a couple of weeks ago in Jordan. He paid for his girlfriend to visit Jordan where she is currently expl...

06.01.11 09:13 PM - Comment(s)
This artwork (and many other works like it in a variety of media) was created through a joint effort of Arab and Jewish students on the shore of The Sea of Galilee.
05.29.11 11:21 PM - Comment(s)

This morning the pastor of the church where we'll perform Paradise Lost this afternoon wisely addressed the foolishness of predicting when Christ will return.

After the sermon I told the church how we drove into Israel on May 21, and we thought we might pass over the Jordan River, into t...
05.29.11 05:08 PM - Comment(s)

Our recording of Paradise Lost (http://RichDrama.com/ParadiseLost) went very well, I think. Watch for it towards the end of summer: http://RichDrama.com/Updates.

05.28.11 09:49 PM - Comment(s)
Peter restored on the shore of
The Sea of Galilee
I performed Peter's breakfast with Jesus on the shore of The Sea of Galilee, quite near where it is believed that Jesus restored Peter to ministry. Henrietta, one of the members of our CITA to the Nations team read from John 21, and when she read tha...
05.28.11 02:11 PM - Comment(s)

We're recording Paradise Lost (http://RichDrama.com/ParadiseLost) today at Towson University: http://itinerary.richdrama.com. Watch for it later this summer: http://RichDrama.com/Updates.

05.28.11 12:57 PM - Comment(s)

We'll be performing the world premiere of Paradise Lost (http://RichDrama.com/ParadiseLost) this Sunday near Baltimore: http://itinerary.richdrama.com.

05.28.11 12:55 PM - Comment(s)

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