Richard Garcia

In 2002 Richard Garcia earned a BA in Psychology from Minot State University where he wrote for the campus newspaper, produced a show on the campus TV channel, hosted a campus radio show and was on the football team. Later that year he began studying Acting for the stage under Dr. Tawyna Pettiford-Wates at Seattle Central Community College and with her troupe 'The Conciliation Project'; Dr. Pettiford-Wates work with (TCP) began by exploring a deconstruction of the archetype Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe's controversial novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." She taught and created performances using the Ritual Poetic Drama process, during this process Garcia studied voice under Andrienne Wilson and David Duvall as well as dance with Anita Kuroiwa & Kabby Mitchell 3rd. The Conciliation Project is now in West Virginia and exists with its own history and process pulling from energy developed in Seattle back in 2001. Ritual Poetic Drama is the methodology used in creating the plays. The Ritual