| Membership Profile Information |
| Rich Amada |
As Rich Amada likes to tell it...he was born in a little log cabin hospital in the backwoods of Newark, New Jersey. In his more serious moments, he will tell you that he was raised in a small New Jersey town, within sight of the tallest buildings of New York City. His first career was as a TV news reporter. He won six journalism awards, including an Emmy.
He began writing plays in 1989 after he saw an advertisement for a local theater company's playwriting contest. Determined to give it a try, he wrote and entered a one-act play that was selected as one of the contest's winners. Since them, Rich has continued to write plays, and, to date, he has written more than 30 of various genres, some including original music and lyrics. He has won eight playwriting awards, including the 1996 Playwriting Fellowship from the Arizona Commission on the Arts and a 2007 Individual Artist Award in Playwriting from the Maryland State Arts Council. He twice served as President of The Old Pueblo Playwrights (Tucson, AZ) and has been a member of Playwrights Forum (Washington, D.C.). For five years he served as D.C./Baltimore Regional Representative of the Dramatists Guild. In addition to being a playwright, Rich is an actor and director.
Rich is currently an attorney practicing in the Washington, D.C., area. His book, An Artist's Guide to the Law, was published in 2010. |
| City: | Alexandria |
| Email: |
virginia@thelittletheatre.com |
| Member Works |
| Cheena, Queen of the Jungle; or...It's a Vine Life | VIEW |
| Critics, The | VIEW |
| Crowded Eden | VIEW |
| Dark and the Damned, The | VIEW |
| Dividing Line, The | VIEW |
| Face in a Window | VIEW |
| Faith in the Fast Lane | VIEW |
| Free Shot | VIEW |
| Hail the Conquering Hero | VIEW |
| Judicial Murder of Mrs. Surratt, The | VIEW  |
| Last of the Diners | VIEW |
| Link, The | VIEW |
| Murder in the Footlights; or...Is There a Killer in the House? | VIEW |
| Patient, The | VIEW |
| Pistachio Nut War, The | VIEW |
| Portrait in Blue | VIEW |
| Radio Night | VIEW |
| Rest of It, The | VIEW |
| Road to Algiers, The; or...Money Casbah Me Love | VIEW |
| Shot in the Back in My Little Grass Shack in the Tropics; or...Bango Bango in Pango Pango | VIEW |
| Taste of Murder, A | VIEW |
| Timekeeper, The | VIEW |
| Viola's Love Song, The | VIEW |
| Wimpley School for Wayward Girls, The | VIEW |
| World's First Vegetarians by Moral Conviction, The | VIEW |
| Member Media |
| Essay: "Check, Please!" | |
| Essay: "Running the Playwright's Gantlet" | |
| Essay: "We'll Now Take a Short Break in Defense of Intermission" | |
| Member Links |
| Amada Law Office |
| Artful Jurist (blog for arts and the law) |
| Book: "An Artist's Guide to the Law" |