Rickey Colbert

This Dallas Texas native has had a stellar half a decade showing no signs of giving up. Rickey L.Colbert Jr. AKA (R-JAY and his many talents as playwright, director, producer, choreographer and actor extraordinaire are on the way of taking the urban theater/film to another level. Rickey L. Colbert Jr. is the author of 5 stage plays and 2 screenplays. That has embraced many lives with laughter and spirituality. In 2000, inspired by Tyler Perry's play "DIARY OF A MAD BLACK WOMAN" He wrote on a daily bases in his journal trying to find peace with his self, also trying to heal his pain. R-JAY chose the stage life as a vehicle, (roller coaster) because it has its ups and downs like life. R-JAY tries to bring real life to the stage. Glancing back at his career thus far, R-JAY ingeniously created the middle 60's grand mother Big Love. In 2001, He introduced Big Love in his first production, "CAN WE TALK" plastic surgery had just been performed on the urban theater market. In the summer of 2001, he wrote "GRANNY GOES BACK TO WORK", CHRISTMAS AT GRANDPA JOE'S. And "LIVING WITH BIG LOVE", all starred R-JAY. as Big Love. R-JAY later collaborated with D'Marcus Langrum in 2006 and co-wrote co- directed a black history show, entitled "CULTURAL EXPRESSION: REFLECTION ON THE AFRICAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE. Which R-JAY starred as Grand pa Joe. R-JAY also stared as Hamlet in the Los Angeles Repertory Theater Production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet.