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Originally from New Hampshire, Rich has lived in and performed in Los Angeles, Washington, and New York City. Rich began performing at the ripe old age of 11, playing the “Third Spider” in his middle school’s production of Charlotte’s Web. Needless to say, following this production Rich had “caught the bug” and began auditioning for every production that he could. During high school he was a founding board member of the all-student-run theater group “The Theater People” in Derry, New Hampshire. |
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While on the board of The Theater People, Rich worked to produce several variety shows and a full-length production of the musical Once On This Island. By the time Rich left New Hampshire to attend The Catholic University of America’s esteemed music school in Washington, DC, he had been performing in one play or another without interruption for over 5 years.
While in school in DC, Rich was approached by a casting director for the Washington Opera and asked to audition for an ensemble part in Franco Zeferilli’s acclaimed production of the opera Pagliacci, starring Placido Domingo and presented at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. While working on the opera Rich shared the stage with some of the greatest singers in the world – as well as with a donkey, a sword swallower, and a bearded lady. Pagliacci was a huge success and was filmed for broadcast on PBS. Toward the end of the run it was even attended by then current President and First Lady Bill and Hillary Clinton – complete with Secret Service details in all of the dressing rooms!
After leaving Washington Rich moved between New York and Los Angeles, auditioning for theater and television. He worked in a variety of styles of theater, including: opera (La Boheme, The Marriage of Figaro, De Tote Stadt, Tosca); musical theater (Meet Me in St. Louis, The Little Prince), French farce (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme), television (All My Children, Scene of the Crime), and Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew). After several years of performing he turned his attention to writing and producing, working on shows for the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival and the Bermuda International Arts Festival. He has just completed writing a full-length screenplay with a working title of Soundtrack, which he hopes to film this coming fall and winter under the management of his and his partners production company, PD Productions. |
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