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Africa

We have invitations to perform and teach in Kenya, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Rwanda and Nigeria. But none of them can get us to Africa. We need your help to impact them with the love of God through drama.

My grandparents taught at the Rift Valley Academy outside of Nairobi in the '40s, and m...

09.19.12 02:59 PM - Comment(s)

Missions Through Arts

On September 29 I'm performing and teaching at the English East Coast Joint Mission Day 2012.

View and download the handout from the conference by clicking here.

If you know of other groups that are using the arts in missions, please post their websites as a comment.

09.18.12 03:37 PM - Comment(s)

Vulnerable

Click here for an outstanding sermon by my former professor from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.

Some gems: "Charisma without character is catastrophe." "'You're credible with us because you became vulnerable with us.' ...Christ is most credible because He made himself most vulner...

09.14.12 07:59 PM - Comment(s)

A jewel

It was a jewel.
--Jan Fields
White Plains, NY
After seeing one of our MasterWorks performances of The Jeweler's Shop

09.14.12 04:22 PM - Comment(s)

I wish I wouldn't have come alone

The MasterWorks students were so talented! I wish I wouldn't have come alone. Next year I'll invite lots of people!
--Rachel Prozeller
New York City
After seeing the MasterWorks Off-Broadway performance of The Jeweler's Shop, directed by Rich Swingle

09.12.12 02:45 PM - Comment(s)

Chariots of Fire in the West End

In the run-up to the Olympics we read that Chariots of Fire would be running in cinemas all over the UK. We never saw posters for the movie while we were there with performances of my one-man play on the rest of the story, Beyond the Chariots, but we LOVED the West End production of the newly stage...

09.06.12 10:13 PM - Comment(s)

Reposting a report on Toronto and the Olympics from 2012

Rich with Ian Sadler, organist for
Chariots of Fire.

My Toronto performance of Beyond the Chariots in April was bookended by Ian Sadler playing the same pieces on the organ as he did in the Academy Award-winning film Chariots of Fire. To hear "Jerusalem" played as it had in the film, j...

08.30.12 03:57 PM - Comment(s)

Grace to the Nations

I just posted a number of photos from our travels to Puerto Rico, Transylvania and London during the Olympics: GraceToTheNations.Shutterfly.com.

We reached people from 30 nations during those two weeks!

We have more stories on this blog as well as Facebook.com/RichDrama and TheLizThatWas.Tumblr....

08.24.12 02:14 PM - Comment(s)

The Rich Young Ringmaster

This is my report to Westchester Chapel of our performances and workshops in Puerto Rico, Transylvania and London during the 2012 Olympics...

08.20.12 09:02 PM - Comment(s)

30 Nations During the Olympics!

During the Olympics we reached people from at least 30 nations:

Puerto Rico
Romania
Hungary
England
USA
Australia
Canada
Holland
Switzerland
India
Zimbabwe
Liberia
Kenya
Congo Brazzaville
Japan
Philippines
Sri Lanka
South Africa
Malawi
Nigeria
Russia
Poland
Italy
Belgium
G...

08.18.12 07:39 PM - Comment(s)

Amazing connections

We've been having a ball in Europe!
We've been posting as often as we can to http://Facebook.com/RichSwingle and our friend and colleague Liz has been posting to http://thelizthatwas.tumblr.com .
Here's a video we just posted telling some of the amazing connections the Lord has been setting up: ...

08.08.12 09:29 AM - Comment(s)

A mid-journey report

We've come to London to share my play about Eric Liddell ( ...

08.07.12 08:30 AM - Comment(s)

Total triumph in Transylvania

We had an indescribably great time in Transylvania. My shirt says, "For I am not ashamed of the Gospel, because it is the power of God that brings Salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile." (Romans 1:16 NIV) Though we're in Romania, it's written in Hungar...

08.05.12 06:52 AM - Comment(s)

Better than Jim Carrey

You're better than Jim Carrey. You can play him, but he could never play you.
--Yume Szekely Annamaria
Udvarhely
Romania

08.04.12 03:28 PM - Comment(s)

Love Does Not Boast

Pastor Joyce Swingle preaches on James 4:13-17. Communion by Pastor Linda Warren.

http://archive.org/embed/LoveDoesNotBoast_706

Rich Swingle closed the service telling about the documentary Captivated, which was screened at the MasterWorks Festival this year.

http://archive.org/embed/Captivated_91

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07.23.12 01:53 AM - Comment(s)

Former prisoner in N. Korea shares story Wednesday night

Arts and media ministry leaders of New York City and friends,

I have a last-minute invitation for you to join MasterWorks and Mastermedia this Wednesday night.

Though I've lived in Manhattan since 1993, one month each year I direct the theatre program for The MasterWorks Festival (http://RichDrama.com...

07.10.12 07:16 PM - Comment(s)

INDIANA BASED TALENT PROGRAM BRINGS ACTORS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE TO PERFORM OFF-BROADWAY AT ‘THEATRE 315’ IN NEW YORK CITY

CONTACT

Shelly Woods, S.D.I. Entertainment PR

S.D.I.Entertainment.PR@Gmail.com

Director, Rich Swingle, MasterWorks Theatre

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

MasterWorks Festival Theatre Program Presents Pope John Paul II’s “The Jeweler’s Shop” on July 13 and 14 at 7:30pm and special industry talent sh...

06.29.12 11:31 PM - Comment(s)

Sensitivity

Thank you for such a great performance. I lost my friend who was a firefighter. Your performance and sensitivity meant the world to me that night.
--Sara Kronemann
NYC
(After Five Bells for 9/11 performed in NYC on 9/11/11)

06.03.12 09:30 PM - Comment(s)

I truly forgot where I was

"There were times when I truly forgot where I was and I would no longer be just an audience member but instead was in the scene experiencing everything that was happening in the scene."

--Lizl Kruger (after watching Beyond the Chariots)

Student

Wesleyan School

Norcross, GA

05.24.12 01:42 PM - Comment(s)

Help send Beyond the Chariots to London for the Olympics

We'll be going to London and Birmingham to perform Beyond the Chariots during the Summer Olympics. Our friend Liz Jennings will be joining us to advance translation slides as I perform my play about Olympic champion Eric Liddell. Some of Liddell's story is told in the film Chariots of Fire, ...

05.13.12 11:13 PM - Comment(s)

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