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Rich Kiamco is a force of nature that rips across the stage leaving laughter, tears and applause in his wake. His one-man show UNACCESSORIZED, an autobiopic romp about a queer Filipino overachiever, received the Overall Excellence Award in Solo Performance at the New York International Fringe Festival and Best Solo Performance at the Montreal GLBT International Theatre Festival. He received standing ovations at FACT: Filipino Americans Coming Together, the largest Midwest Conference of Filipino American students and at True Colors, the world’s largest LGBTIQQA youth conference.

Rich was a featured on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, hosted the WE channel's Three Men and a Chick Flick, appeared on Q Television’s Queer Edge, was a panelist on the Discovery Channel’s Second Opinion, was a guest speaker at MTV networks for LGBT Month and was honored to co-host a private event for Senator Hillary Clinton. He has also appeared in Las Vegas, on The Howard Stern Show and venues nationwide as the side-kick to comedian Judy Tenuta, and at various campuses with Peeling, an Asian-American performance collective based in New York City. His writing can be found in Take Out: Queer Writing From Asian Pacific America, as well as Queer Stories For Boys. Rich recently returned from a tour of campus appearances in China and the Philippines, and showcased at the NACA [National Association For Campus Activities] National Conference in Nashville, Tennessee.