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Excellent Stage Presence

Rich Swingle, playwright and actor, brings excellent stage presence and physical exuberance to his performance of the one-person play, A Clear Leading. … (Swingle) is a master of a large variety of voices and dialects, switching characters with hats and other minimal props to pull off a well-paced ...

06.10.05 02:39 PM - Comment(s)

Thomas Tornado Tinglehoop and the Three Christmas Clues

Thomas Tornado Tinglehoop and the Three Christmas Clues
Originally uploaded by RichDrama.

My brother got me into a Book Expo held at the Javitts Center here in New York. I was able to leave query letters with SEVEN publishers! It was like walking all around the country in a couple of hours.

Please p...

06.10.05 02:38 PM - Comment(s)

About A Clear Leading

Another Quaker innovator, Rich Swingle, has been performing…A Clear Leading, based on incidents in John Woolman’s life, (which) has delighted audiences across America…
—Michael P. Graves
from Truth’s Bright Embrace

06.10.05 02:36 PM - Comment(s)

Photos from Israel

Though Beth lost her sight at birth, her presence on the trip brought a greater awareness of the details of Israel to the rest of us. Here she is "seeing" a replica of a first century cross.

Other pictures from our trip are here.

There were a few from our trip to the Dead Sea that were t...

06.10.05 02:33 PM - Comment(s)

Five Bells for 9/11

Just wanted to let you know how much I enjoyed ' Five Bells for 9/11.' I sat transfixed."
—Lois Struble
attends Warwick Valley Church of the Nazarene

06.10.05 02:33 PM - Comment(s)

Five Bells for 9/11

The play provided some excellent opportunity for grief work to continue
among many in our congregation. I thought the play was very tastefully done. A powerful witness to our ultimate salvation through Christ. (Matt 10:28)
—Steve Shomo
Pastor of Warwick Valley Church of the Nazarene
...

06.10.05 02:32 PM - Comment(s)

Five Bells for 9/11

Re: Five Bells... That was lovely. Thank you.
—Robert M. Fresco
Academy Award Winning Filmmaker

06.10.05 02:31 PM - Comment(s)

from Bob Hope's comedy writer

You're such an amazing talent!
—Martha Bolton
Author and comedy writer for Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Ann Jillian, Jeff Allen, Mark Lowry, Fritz Coleman, and more.

06.10.05 02:27 PM - Comment(s)

Grammy Award-winning cousin

My brother, Bob (left), was in town for the Book Expo held at the Javitts center. He and his wife, Shannon, run Lightbourne, a small company that creates book and CD covers. Bob won a pretty major award for his cover of Reflections in the Ice.

Between Bob and I is our cousin, Nick Brophy. He was in ...

06.10.05 02:20 PM - Comment(s)

My playwriting mentor honored

Tina Howe, who was my playwriting professor at Hunter College has just received the Distinguished Achievement in American Theatre Award from the William Inge Theatre Festival.

06.10.05 01:49 PM - Comment(s)

Zacarías y Elisabet

We developed this short drama in Cuba using Bibliodrama:

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06.10.05 01:10 PM - Comment(s)

You kept the attention of the kids

You kept the attention of the kids for an hour. You did an excellent job keeping the attention of the adults as well.
--Dale Weaver
Closter, NJ

06.10.05 01:04 PM - Comment(s)

About The Acts

I saw things I'd never seen before.
--Tom Albright
Triechlers, PA

06.10.05 12:24 PM - Comment(s)

Body Language

As a photographer I read more from the body language. So as your characters changed it helped me distinguish between them.

--David Dobson

06.09.05 06:45 PM - Comment(s)

They're still talking!

My class of grades 1-2 kids that attended your SGCS visit was STILL talking about at the end of the school year! :o)
--Bruce Wilkinson
MasterWorks Festival instructor
teacher at Surrey Garden Christian School

06.09.05 04:15 PM - Comment(s)

Free Screener to The Revelation

Whether you're here to review the play, a friend, family member or someone who blessed me, I'm happy to share this free screener to my one-man play The Revelation.

Please don't share this link with others unless I told you to share it with someone specifically. Please send others to www.RichDram...

06.08.05 07:19 PM - Comment(s)

We just got back from Joyce's ordination

Ordinand
Originally uploaded by RichDrama.

Joyce is now officially ordained as an elder in the Church of the Nazarene. She's holding a gift from Eastern Nazarene College, a sculpture by Scott Stearman, who once took us horse riding in the Colorado Rockies.

05.13.05 05:57 AM - Comment(s)

Big Fish Little Worm

This page was set up for venues to review Rich Swingle's one-man play Big Fish Little Worm.

If I gave you a link to this page please enjoy it, but we appreciate it if you would not share it in a public place. Send others to www.RichDrama.com/blog/post/BigFishLittleWorm.

05.05.05 03:27 PM - Comment(s)

Wendy

The Honduran Director of Compassion, Orestes Zuniga, spoke to us this morning.

He compared us, as Compassion artists and speakers, to Miriam, who was the mediator between the princess who wanted to help baby Moses and the mother who raised him. In the end, the slave and child of poverty became the...

02.02.05 10:56 PM - Comment(s)

Hangin' with the kids

We got to hang out with a lot of kids. A favorite thing of theirs to do was to take "un foto" with our cameras.

02.02.05 09:08 PM - Comment(s)

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