Rick Batalla
{{short description|American dramatist}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1962|11|9}}
| birth_place = Santa Monica, California
| occupation = Actor, playwright
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Rick Batalla is an actor, theatre director and playwright.{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/artist/rick-batalla-268100 |title=Rick Batalla movies, photos, movie reviews, filmography, and biography |publisher=AllMovie |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
Biography
He grew up in Santa Monica.{{cite web|url=http://www.borderbookfestival.org/artists/rick_batalla.php |title=¡XV! - The Festival |publisher=The Border Book Festival |date= |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
He has worked both in front of the camera as a series regular (Payne, HUD, True Love), and as a guest star (Married... with Children, Living Single, Brooklyn South, 8 Simple Rules) on various television shows, and in films like Eraser with Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Gia with Angelina Jolie.{{cite web|url=http://www.fandango.com/rickbatalla/filmography/p268100 |title=Rick Batalla |publisher=Fandango |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
Rick is also involved in LA Theater. He is a founding member of the Troubadour Theater Company, which takes current music, and sets it to the plays of Shakespeare.{{Cite web |url=http://troubie.org/public/press/oedipus-laweekly.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2010-03-12 |archive-date=2011-07-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728130404/http://troubie.org/public/press/oedipus-laweekly.pdf |url-status=dead }}{{cite web|first=Terry |last=Morgan |url=https://www.variety.com/review/VE1117939218.html?categoryid=33&cs=1 |title=It's a Stevie Wonderful Life |publisher=Variety |date=15 December 2008 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}{{cite web|last=Margolies |first=Dany |url=http://www.backstage.com/bso/production-listings/oedipus-the-king-mama-1004006303.story |title=Oedipus the King, Mama! |publisher=Backstage |date=25 August 2009 |accessdate=14 June 2014}}
Plays
- My Mexican Life
- Blake…Da Musical, Ovation Award-winning musical about Robert Blake[http://www.gtc.org/blake.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726133717/http://www.gtc.org/blake.html |date=July 26, 2011 }}[http://www.kathydanley.com/blake.html ] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090627215656/http://www.kathydanley.com/blake.html |date=June 27, 2009 }}
- "CHiPs The Musical"
References
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External links
- [http://www.rickbatalla.com/ Artist's website]
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Category:Male actors from Santa Monica, California
Category:20th-century American dramatists and playwrights
Category:Writers from Santa Monica, California
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