Bio

Rich Swingle has performed in hundreds of venues in 19 nations, mostly with eight one-man plays he has written: A Clear Leading, Big Fish Little Worm, The Revelation, The Acts, Alien Immigration Training, Views of the Manger, Five Bells for 9/11, and Beyond the Chariots, which he's performed Off-Broadway, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival (the largest arts festival in the world), in LA, Toronto, Hong Kong, Shangai, and Beijing during the 2008 Olympics. Rich has acted in a number of New York City productions, film, radio, and CD-ROM. He provided the voice of Peter Cooper, the subject of a documentary by award winning Gardner Documentary Group. For the Beginners Bible video series, distributed by Sony Wonder, he did 20 roles including Jesus, Adam, and the Serpent. He recorded two projects related to the September 11th attacks: Crossing Barriers and Stage Shadows. He has performed voice-overs and on-screen roles in several commercials. He originated the roles of Simonides and Pontius Pilate in the musical Judah Ben-Hur in Singapore, and he performed five poems by George Herbert at The Kennedy Center. He worked with John Kirby (acting coach on The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, DéJà Vu, Count of Monte Cristo) to co-direct Tartuffe and Our Town, during which he performed the role of the Stage Manager, as a part of The MasterWorks Festival, where Rich directs the theatre program. Rich's shorter works have shared the stage with numerous musicians including Margaret Becker, Bob Carlisle, The Martins and Fernando Ortega. Rich is on the board of Christians in Theatre Arts and on the planning committee for Media and Arts at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization to be held in Cape Town, South Africa in October 2010.

Rich is a Freedom Finder for Graceworks, helping presenters in a variety of fields overcome stage fright and connect with their audiences through seminars and project coaching.

Rich was a writer for the documentary Olympic Hero in China: The Eric Liddell Story, for which he recorded the English narration.

He has performed and/or taught workshops in over 20 colleges or universities, including George Fox University (rated the number one Christian college in the US by Forbes and US News and World Report), University of Memphis and Princeton University.

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