RICK PLUMMER

BIOGRAPHY

Rick Plummer has directed over 150 productions and played as many roles in a twenty-three year career as a professional actor, director, and theater educator. Dr. Plummer currently manages the Theater and Cultural Arts program at West Shore Community College. Before assuming his current position, he created and managed an award-winning touring theater in Missouri, and directed acting programs at both the University of Alabama, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, and The University of Arkansas at Little Rock.

Rick’s acting and directing credits include professional stock, tour, TV, outdoor drama, dinner theater, Shakespeare festival, and university and community theater. Directing assignments include FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, THE MUSIC MAN, GREASE, and others at WSCC; elsewhere he has directed BENT (starring Keil Martin from Hill Street Blues), a university production of OUR TOWN (which was selected as an alternate finalist in the American College Theater Festival), and the world-premiere of a musical he co-authored based on the life of Hans Christian Andersen—AS LONG AS THE CUKOO SINGS!, among many others. Onstage, he has been seen in JOURNEY TO THE DAY (in a production starring both Justine and Jason Bateman), as Caesar in JULIUS CAESAR, Stanley Kowalski in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE, Willy Loman in DEATH OF A SALESMAN, Henry Higgins in MY FAIR LADY, Van Helsing in DRACULA, and Iago in OTHELLO. He can be seen on tour in his own one-man biography drama, LIVE FROM THE FRONT: BYLINE ERNIE PYLE.

Rick lives in Ludington along with his wife, professional actress and WMTE-FM radio personality Christine, their thirteen year-old son Elliot, ten year-old daughter Emma Grace, their seven year-old son Kaedin, as well as four cats, two dogs, and several birds (unfortunately, the goldfish and the gerbils all died mysterious deaths recently; they suspect the cats in each of these losses of life, but none of the animals are fessing up to the crimes).