Recently, he wrote and co-produced the documentary film The Man Who Lost the Civil War, which tells the little-known story of a disastrous Confederate military campaign in New Mexico in 1862. The film was directed by Peter Spirer and narrated by Morgan Sheppard. It was broadcast by select PBS affiliate stations and was distributed on VHS by the University of New Mexico Press. Rick's script was awarded Best Western Documentary Screenplay by Western Writers of America. His recent play, Damned Glory, dramatizes the events seen in the documentary.

Rick's dark comedy Suicide Live is intended to put the fun back into the dysfunctional family. Willis Cumpston and his 30-year-old son Arvid contemplate suicide on the same evening. Each man is angry when he finds out the other plans to die and leave him to clean up the mess. Willis gets an idea how to settle this last family dispute. He gathers together a group of the telemarketers who have been calling all evening as a "jury" to hear each man argue who most deserves to die. He tells them this is a reality television show called "Suicide Live." Willis and Arvid lay out a shocking tale of family cruelty and have a good time doing it.

Murder at the Centre Theatre is a mystery farce. Sir Barrymore Bulfinch is a much-celebrated and much-hated playwright and director who has bullied his "post-modern symbolist" play into a long run at the unfortunate Centre Thetatre. But there's good news: he turns up dead -- onstage, during a blackout and scene change of his own play! There's bad news, too. While the Centre Theatre is trying to premiere its next play, legendary Chief Inspector Wayward W. Sidling shows up to investigate the murder of Sir Barrymore -- onstage.

When he's not writing or teaching, Rick loves cycling (both road and mountain), baseball, rodeo, playing classical and jazz guitar, and, of course, going to plays.