In the second grade c 1970 Rick was cast by his homeroom teacher Mrs Vicini to play the King Pumpkin in a musical she wrote about a vegetable garden and how all the vegetables were negatively impacted by the insecticide DDT And it was this original school musical that started Ricks lifelong journey as an actor The summer prior to Ricks senior year in High School he was hired by a Pittsburgharea Dinner Theatre to play Mercutio in William Shakespeares Romeo and Juliet He was 17 years old playing Mercutio who was 17 years old and being paid as an actor Unfortunately Rick had to tell his High School football coach that he would be unable to make the first scrimmage of the season under the lights at home because he was acting in a Play The coach was not very happy and Rick sat the bench his senior year except for the fact that he was the only one who was able to snap the football back to the punter and that year they punted quite a bit Rick still lettered in football that year despite his coachs efforts Rick started acting in community theaters at the age of 12 went on to College to major in Theatrical Performance and began acting on the stages of various western Pennsylvania theaters In 2017 Rick organically entered onto the Pittsburgh film industry scene In 2019 Rick married for the second time to the love of his life and his partner Stephanie Swift a Pittsburgharea actress Rick has three children all of them in college right now so please hire him
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