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Rick Kish 519-433-7425 / e-mail: [email protected] / website: www.rickkish.ca / CAEA # 22822 * Upcoming / ** Self Produced

 ARTISTIC DIRECTOR (AD) a missing link theatre company (AMLTC)… 2012 • Director • Actor • Director

* The Great Kooshog Lake Hollis McCauley Fishing Derby - April, 2013 - (World Premiere Production by Norm Foster) * A Really Retro Christmas Special 2012 - December 16, 2012 A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline

Bluewater Summer Playhouse (BSP)… 2002 - 2006 - 5 Seasons • AD • AD/Actor • Director • AD • AD • Director • AD • Director • Director • AD • Director • AD • AD • AD • Director • Director • Director • AD • Director

The Love List My Way: Musical Tribute to Frank Sinatra Mary’s Wedding Memories of The Summer Of Love A Broadway Romance The Kitchen Witches Wrong For Each Other A Closer Walk With Patsy Cline DADS! The Musical Here On The Flight Path The Wild Guys Come By The Hills Eight To The Bar Fingers & Toes Storm Warning (World Premiere Production by Norm Foster) Suds: Rocking 60's Musical Soap Opera All Grown Up Salt-Water Moon Forever Plaid

Port Stanley Festival Theatre (PSFT) … 1999 - 2001 - 3 Seasons • Director • AD • AD • Director • AD • AD • AD • AD • Director • Director • Director • Director • Director

Personals Mesa Dried Flowers Maggie’s Getting Married Hank Williams - The Show He Never Gave Denise Pelley Live In Concert Dads In Bondage Here On The Flight Path Pith! You’ll Get Used To It! The War Show Get Stuffed! The Musical Bordertown Café All Grown Up

 FREELANCE DIRECTING/PRODUCING - selected • Dir/Prod • Dir/Prod • Dir/Prod/Actor • Dir/Prod/Actor • Director

A Closer Walk…Patsy Cline Hedwig & The Angry Inch A Really Retro Christmas Songs From The Bar UWOpera GALA

AMLTC London Fringe Musical Revue Faculty of Music Faculty of Music

McManus Studio @ The Grand APK Live McManus Studio @ The Grand McManus Studio @ The Grand University of Western ON.

• Dir/Prod/Actor • Dir/Prod/Actor • Director • Dir/Prod/Actor • Dir/Prod/Actor • Director • Director • Ass’t Director • Dir/Prod/Actor

Holiday Celebration of Jazz Musical Revue Tour Broadway Lights… Camp Wendake Hilton Ballroom Steel Magnolias School of Drama Art University of Windsor The Gangsters Of Swing Camp Wendake Hilton Ballroom What Happens In Vegas… Camp Wendake McManus Studio @ The Grand Sweeney Todd Students Council University of Western ON. Wang Dang Doodle Grand Theatre Main Stage … London The Phoenix Lottery Grand Theatre ... London - director Kelly Handerek Great Musicals From A Grand Theatre Musical Revue (Marienbad Restaurant) Grand Theatre ... London • Director Born Yesterday - Platform Reading Grand Theatre ... London • Dir/Prod/Actor Old Friends (Sondheim Revue) John Gordon Home Benefit • Director/Producer Parade In Town (Sondheim Revue) London New Arts Festival • Director/Producer Safe Sex AIDS Committee of Windsor Benefit • Assistant Jacques Brel Is Alive & Well And Living In Paris director Vinetta Strombergs (assistant music director as well) mus. dir Ian Smith • Assistant The Wizard of Oz Revue director Henry K. Martin • Assistant Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat director Jim White  THEATRE – ACTING (selected work) The Rocky Horror Show Frank London Fringe Festival 2011 Winner of “Best of London Fringe” Award 2011 ** Songs From The Bar Joe McManus Studio Theatre Into The Woods Baker Paul Davenport Theatre 2010 Saucy Jack & The Space Vixens Booby London Fringe Festival 2010 Winner of “Best of London Fringe” Award 2010 Summer Comes Late Gary London One Act Festival 2010 ** A Holiday Celebration Of Jazz… Featured Tour - Various Venues Southwestern ON P&J: The Sandwich Musical Ralph McManus Studio Theatre P&J: The Original Mock Musical Ralph Equity Co-op Production My Way: A Musical...Frank Sinatra Man # 1 Bluewater Summer Playhouse A Funny Thing…Forum Protean The Grand Theatre Main Stage... London The Wild Guys Randall Pt. Stanley Fest. Theatre A Nightingale Sang Patrick Collective Arts Productions Forever Plaid Jinx Theatre Uppercut Toronto, Mississippi Bill Pt. Stanley Fest. Theatre Side By Side By Sondheim Man #1 Pt. Stanley Fest. Theatre Hair Berger Althouse College U.W.O. Get Stuffed! - The Musical Rocco Leone Toronto Fringe/Umbrella Fest. Oedipuss ‘n Boots Myren Myelin Actors Lab  CONCERTS & REVUES ** A Really Retro Christmas ** From Broadway to Jazz… ** From Broadway to Jazz… ** Broadway Lights… ** A Celebration Of Swing ** A Holiday Celebration Of Jazz ** The Gangsters Of Swing ** What Happens In Vegas ** What Happens In Vegas Tapestry...Music of Carole King ** Rick Kish & Friends ** Great Musicals… Peggy Dwyer & Friends

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McManus Studio Theatre Collingwood Aeolian Hall Aug 2010 Hilton Ballroom StarDust Dinner Theatre The Arts Project Theatre Hilton Ballroom Delta Armouries Ballroom McManus Studio Theatre DIVA Productions Assumption University Marienbad Restaurant Assumption University

Dale Hirlehey Rick Kish David Rogers Dale Hirlehey Robyn Israel Rick Kish Marcia Tratt Jeff Culbert Marc Richard Bob Ainslie Don Fleckser Robert More D.Porter Pat Spadini John Gerry Janet Dixon Del ARTiE Del ARTiE

London, ON Parkinson Society SWO Summer Soiree Series Camp Wendake Benefit Parkhill, ON London, ON Camp Wendake Benefit Medical Conference Camp Wendake Benefit U. of Windsor Grand Theatre ... London U. of Windsor

** Old Friends  MEDIA Little Boy Blue Various Radio Ads Various Industrial Videos Blood Pressure Industrial Videos Industrial Videos Love & Oysters Downtown Financial CFMT Make It To Your Future A Carnival of Shadows

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Private Outdoor Venue

EMAC Studios EMAC Studios SIVA Productions Hypertension Collective Talent Pool Dorothy Downs Atlantic Motion Pictures Toronto CFPL London Rhombus Media

Debut CD Lead (speaking) Lead (speaking) Lead (speaking) Lead (non speak) Lead (speaking) Principle Lead (non-speak) Lead (speaking) Actor

John Gordon Home Benefit 9 Jazz Standards (Voice Over) (Training Videos) (Commercial) (Training Videos) (Training Videos) (Feature Film) (Commercial) (Commercial) (Feature Film)

 RELATED WORK • Vocal Coach Footloose High School Project Grand Theatre London • Vocal Coach Anything Goes High School Project Grand Theatre London • Juror Arts Investment London Arts Council • Prod Coordinator Blue Suede Shoes C2 Entertainment PSFT • Acting Coach Don Giovanni UWO OPERA Paul Davenport Theatre • Vocal Coach Grease High School Project Grand Theatre London • Prod Coordinator The Rat Pack C2 Entertainment PSFT • Vocal Coach Pirates of Penzance High School Project Grand Theatre London • Vocal Coach Les Miserables High School Project Grand Theatre London • Various Voice Over work for EMAC Studios in London, ON • Various Industrial Videos for SIVA Productions in London, ON • Board of Directors (Director at large) Association of Summer Theatres ‘Round Ontario (A.S.T.R.O.) • Revival (a short film) Director • Oh Solo Mio Festival Juror Fringe Festival London • Vocal Coach Tommy - Westminster SS, London • Artistic Consultant/Interim Artistic Director Pre 2003 Summer Season Port Stanley Festival Theatre • Board of Directors Member London Arts Council  WORKSHOPS AND COURSES TAUGHT • Music Theatre Intensive Grand Academy • Acting For Singers Faculty of Music • Monologue Intensive Grand Academy • Acting/Voice (Mat Leave) Sessional Professor • Voice/Acting Lessons & Coaching • Team Building Workshops • Acting Workshops • Drama / Music Supply Teacher • Acting Workshop • Acting Workshops • Voice and Movement Workshop

Grand Theatre U. of Western ON (Masters Level) Grand Theatre Fanshawe College Acting Program Private Studio The Arts Project Continuing Education - U.W.O. TVDSB Playing With Energy Over The Wall Theatre Company Sears Drama Festival

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 OTHER SKILLS • WHIMIS (2010), computer skills (Windows Office, Adobe Photoshop), volleyball player, swimming, home renovation, volunteer work (Camp Wendake & Parkinson Society, SWO), gardening.  TRAINING • MFA Music Theatre • B.Ed. Music/Drama • B.F.A. Music Theatre • Acting

University of Western Ontario University of Western Ontario University of Windsor Classes & Workshops (U. of Windsor)

2011 1994 1992

• Dance • Private Voice

Classes & Workshops - Modern, Jazz, Tap & Ballet (U. of Windsor) Todd Wieczorek (current), Tom Schilling (coach), Peggy Dwyer (coach), Gary Gable, Stephen Henrickson, Cheryl Harrison