Faculty Bio: Rich Swingle

BA George Fox University, MA, Hunter College. 

Rich has performed in hundreds of venues in 23 nations, mostly with ten one-man plays he has written or developed: A Clear Leading, Big Fish Little Worm, The Revelation, The Acts, Alien Immigration Training, Views of the Manger, Five Bells for 9/11, God of Hope, Paradise Lost, 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, in Vancouver during the 2010 Olympics, and in Singapore during the Youth Olympics and Singapore Youth Day.


Rich has performed in six films: Films.RichDrama.com.

 

He has acted in a number of New York City productions, film, radio, and CD-ROM.  For the Beginners Bible video series, distributed by Sony Wonder, he did 20 roles including Jesus, Adam, and the Serpent.  He performed five poems by George Herbert at The Kennedy Center. 

Rich is on the board of Christians in Theatre Arts and served on the planning committee for Media and Arts at the Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization which was held in Cape Town, South Africa.


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 about 40 colleges or universities, including his alma mater, George Fox University (which was rated the number one Christian college in the US by Forbes and US News and World Report), University of Memphis, Namseoul University in Korea, Singapore Bible College, and Asia-Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary in the Philippines. Each spring he teaches a workshop at Princeton University. Rich also spoke at the Ivy League Congress on Faith and Action, hosted by the Harvard University chapter of Christian Union.


BACK to Theatre Faculty

BACK to Faculty Bios

1001 College Avenue, Winona Lake, IN 46590 1-888-836-2723
FREE CONCERTS
Weekends at 7:30pm | Mid June - Mid July
at the Rodeheaver Auditorium