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Thank you for your teaching and encouragement which helped me grow in grace and truth! You are by far one of my favorite, most influential, most memorable, and most enjoyable teachers. Not only your insights on acting which were many but your insights on to the nature and character of God which came...
12.16.14 02:47 PM - Comment(s)
For our centennial celebration on the Metro NY District, Rich Swingle did a superb and unforgettable portrayal of C.B. Jernigan (who founded the district). I had to remind myself a few times that it was you and not C.B. himself! 

--Larry Mancini
Pastor Bay Shore Church of the Nazarene

I felt ...
12.15.14 04:14 PM - Comment(s)
Rich, Swingle, you are an actors' actor! I'm blown away by your talent and the characters you create.
--Mimi Sagadin
Corey ten Boom in Return to the Hiding Place

12.15.14 02:44 PM - Comment(s)
In this morning's sermon  Joyce summarizes Genesis 29-31, the story of Jacob and his wives, drawing a fascinating connection between their lives and the curses and blessings of Bethlahem.

I introduced the Shepherd's Advent Candle by sharing about yesterday's  Treasure Seekers...
12.14.14 10:38 PM - Comment(s)
We hope that you and yours have a blessed Christmas and a wondrous New Year!

This year has had some exceptional highs and lows for us.

The deepest valley was resigning from The MasterWorks Festival after serving on the faculty for 16 years and directing the theatre program for ten. Joyce also had ...
12.13.14 12:47 AM - Comment(s)
Yesterday at Westchester ChapelJoyce introduced the Bethlahem Candle on the Advent Wreath. She also led prayer and gave announcements.  There was an error with the recording, so I recorded a summary of the end of the sermon.

Pastor Jim Warren addresses the wrath of God as a former atheis...
12.07.14 10:23 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle opens the Advent Season from the perspective of children: Mark 10:13-16. Pastor Jim Warren mentions Abraham Lincoln's Proclamation of Thanksgiving and Praise, and how we've dropped the praise and forgotten to whom we should be thankful. Sandy R. introduced and led worship, incl...
12.05.14 01:27 AM - Comment(s)
Pastor Randy Solomon preaches from Romans 14:1-12. He says, "In Romans this whole group of people is coming together from different levels of faith, different levels of tradition, and they're doing things that are shocking one another.... Thankfully as a church in this day we don't have any di...
11.23.14 08:55 PM - Comment(s)
Sometime early in this millennium Joyce and I brought a couple of my one-man plays to a missionary retreat on the Costa Brava, near Barcelona, Spain. There we met some missionaries who used some little costumes they'd made to do Chinkin sketches. They kindly let us borrow them, and later we used th...
11.21.14 02:47 PM - Comment(s)
Some of those special moments of my career have been ones that I've looked forward to for months or years: Performing  Beyond the Chariots for Eric Liddell's family, performing Off-Broadway with Roger Nelson--one of the fellows who inspired me to this career--the first time I walked into a the...
11.17.14 12:30 AM - Comment(s)
I made shrimp and grits for our church's men's group this morning. Even better was Pastor Randy's lesson on Daniel in the Lion's Den. I've loved that story since I was a boy, but Pastor Randy helped us see it in a whole new light!

Daniel's Answer to the King
Briton Rivère (1890)
Manchester Art Galle...
11.15.14 05:08 PM - Comment(s)
Your short bit in Christmas Grace was memorable. You generally seem to be a pretty natural actor. You're good at locking in and responding and not anticipating or giving away subtle "tells." You make your takes look as though they are happening for the first time, which is great. I felt li...
11.14.14 04:22 PM - Comment(s)
Hattie Kauffman spoke at the latest Mastermedia NYC event, and shared the story she kept buried for decades. While the Emmy-award-winning journalist was interviewing leaders of state, Olympians and astronauts she was still reeling from the pain of growing up in a family split by alcoholism. Her pa...
11.13.14 10:35 AM - Comment(s)
I just did ADR (additional digital recording) for the film Rather to Be Chosen, in which Joyce and I play the parents of the protagonist.

To celebrate one step closer to the film's release I'm posting this video we put together of the transitional shave. Just before filming in the spring I still h...
11.11.14 03:20 PM - Comment(s)
Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on Romans 13:8-10, answering, among other things, the question, "How can we know that the Christian God is loving and has good intentions toward us?"

Opening prayer and reading of Psalm 134 by Pastor Linda Warren. Prayer and announcements by Pastor Randy Sol...
11.09.14 09:29 PM - Comment(s)
Zack Lawrence, with whom I'll be teach this summer at the Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp, said every Christian in America should watch Seven Deadly Words. It tells the story of a church at a crisis, and dealing with it in some ungodly ways, which leads to a poor witness to the hurting wor...
11.03.14 10:00 AM - Comment(s)


Pastor Randy Solomon preaches on Romans 13: 1-7. Opening and announcements by Pastor Linda Warren.

The sermon is followed by our Pastors Appreciation Day celebration ceremony.

God's community honors the Lord and celebrates his servants as we ascend the Holy Hill. Step by step they have shepherded u...
11.03.14 12:32 AM - Comment(s)
At the Christian Worldview Film Festival and Guild we had dinner with the Austin family. Amelia played our daughter, her brother Micah was second assistant camera operator, and their mother, Liz, worked on our hair and makeup.

They picked my brain about directing the young protagonist of this swee...
11.01.14 02:00 PM - Comment(s)
Paul Munger who directed me in Princess Cut has some great film recommendations...


You can see all my film recommendations at RichDrama.com/Recommendations.


Soon taking applications for the  Rocky Mountain Christian Filmmakers Camp and  Engage Rio....
10.31.14 09:00 PM - Comment(s)
It is with a very heavy heart that I announce that Joyce and I have resigned from The MasterWorks Festival.
I’ve been a part of the Festival every year since theatre was introduced in 1999, and I’ve directed the theatre program for a full decade, so this was a terribly hard decision, but we make ...
10.28.14 11:56 PM - Comment(s)

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