Rick Compton is an award-winning freelance magazine writer working in business and humor.
He has played in pit orchestras for more than a dozen shows and served as music director for Little Shop of Horrors, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pump Boys and Dinettes and Four Part Thunder.
He has toured the United States and Japan as keyboardist with Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame act The Platters.
As a freelance writer he has won six Florida Magazine Association awards.
He has also received a special commendation from The Florida State Legislature for an article on the state of the tourism industry.
An article he wrote for Dramatics Magazine on the uses of digital music in theater was chosen for inclusion in the SRS/Mandarin Educational Database. He is the co-author and composer of two full length musicals and an outdoor drama.
Rick is in his third career. In the 1970s he was a successful rock-and-roll promoter.
In the 1980s he worked for the billion-dollar ServiStar Corporation, ending his tenure there as General Manager of the private label division.
In the 1990s Rick focused on more creative pursuits as a writer, musician and performer. Rick owns and franchises
Via Colori™, a street painting festival held annually in cities across the United States, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for a variety of important social causes.
Rick's first book The Essential Street Painter is published by Cider Mill Press. Rick recently toured Italy doing research for his next project, a second book on street painting, the forward of which will be written by international street painter Kurt Wenner.
He has played in pit orchestras for more than a dozen shows and served as music director for Little Shop of Horrors, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Pump Boys and Dinettes and Four Part Thunder.
He has toured the United States and Japan as keyboardist with Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame act The Platters.
As a freelance writer he has won six Florida Magazine Association awards.
He has also received a special commendation from The Florida State Legislature for an article on the state of the tourism industry.
An article he wrote for Dramatics Magazine on the uses of digital music in theater was chosen for inclusion in the SRS/Mandarin Educational Database. He is the co-author and composer of two full length musicals and an outdoor drama.
Rick is in his third career. In the 1970s he was a successful rock-and-roll promoter.
In the 1980s he worked for the billion-dollar ServiStar Corporation, ending his tenure there as General Manager of the private label division.
In the 1990s Rick focused on more creative pursuits as a writer, musician and performer. Rick owns and franchises
Via Colori™, a street painting festival held annually in cities across the United States, which raises hundreds of thousands of dollars each year for a variety of important social causes.
Rick's first book The Essential Street Painter is published by Cider Mill Press. Rick recently toured Italy doing research for his next project, a second book on street painting, the forward of which will be written by international street painter Kurt Wenner.
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