Director/Writer/Producer  

RECIPIENT of 20 Theatre Awards

Rick Sparks directed, staged, and co-adapted I LOVE LUCY LIVE ON STAGE. This world premier 'musical valentine' received 8 Broadway World Awards (including Best Direction of a Musical) and landed LA Weekly and Ovation nominations for Rick's direction of the 2011 Los Angeles premier. Following it's sit down in Chicago,Lucy's National Tour played for two years to 3000-seat sold out houses w/ standing ovations across the US and Canada.

Rick and co-writer Gary Carter's stage adaptation (that Rick also directed) of THEY SHOOT HORSES, DON'T THEY? galloped away with 17 L.A. theatre award wins. The script has recently been optioned by Harvard University for an April 2016 stage production.

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