Rich Swingle, who plays soup kitchen proprietor John Gray, has performed and taught on five continents, in 25 nations, and in hundreds of venues, mostly with a dozen one-man plays he has written or helped develop.

Rich has lived in New York City since 1993, where he’s acted in a number of productions, film, radio, and CD-ROM.  He has been featured in eight movies: the lead role of Frederich Lehman in Indescribable, the featured role of Claud in the award-winning A Christmas Snow, the principal role of Coach Sean Ryan in For the Glory, the featured role of Sheriff Hanson in the award-winning Pawn’s Move, the featured role of a land speculator in Alone Yet Not Alone, Hollywood director Forrest Woods in The Screenwriters, a quirky clerk in Christmas Grace, and a lead in the short film Settled.

He worked with John Kirby (acting coach on The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, DeJa Vu, Count of Monte Cristo) to co-direct Tartuffe and Our Town, during which he performed the role of the Stage Manager, and The Miracle Worker as a part of The MasterWorks Festival, where Rich directs the theater program.