Oh, hello there, nice to see you again. Come close, I have some things to tell you, stories both mordant and morbid, and songs of hope and disaster. I will whisper into your trusting ear, or maybe scream in your face.
You know me, that writer of strange performances and performer of mysterious writings. But alas, I must confess, it is all lies. Yet I aspire to lie gracefully, so what you decline me in trust, please indulge me with sympathy. Say to me, "I do not trust you, but I sympathize with you." I will appreciate that, and it will be just enough for him to move on to the next performance. When I speak, it is only about love, death and the future. I have many theories. I have many songs and dances to accompany these theories. I am a lecturer, a philosopher, a song and dance man.
I have told these lies and moved these fragile hands in many places including Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, D.C. Art Center, Baltimore Theatre Project, and the Ontological Hysteric Theatre.
I have performed and recorded several music/performance pieces with my long-time sound collaborator G Lucas Crane, and EHSE Records recently released an LP of our ghost stories/ghost music in April 2008.
I have also had critical and creative work published in many publications including Performance Research Journal, Lost and Found Times, and Pilot; I am a founding editor of Ferrum Wheel, and I am an organizing member of the Baltimore's largest performance event, the Transmodern Festival.

Nice to see you. Take care. Keep in touch. Look at me go.

Current and Upcoming

--- Dark Cabinet of the Strange Weird. Ric Royer and G. Lucas Crane take the art of the scary story to new dimensions and extremes as they combine Royer's surreal tales of the darkly humorous macabre with Crane's intensely terrifying soundscapes.
This special vinyl release comes in a box designed by Baltimore artist Erin Womack and includes other scary secret inserts.
You can order it for $15 through pay pal here:

--- There Were One and It Was Two; Annotated Artifacts from the Doubles Museum. Initially a solo performance piece, the cd/book was published Narrow House Records and features a soundtrack by John Berndt. Twins, decoys, shadows and other variations of The Double, providing companionship throughout life and chasing you until death.
You can order it through pay pal here:

--- Audio from my perfomance at Whartscape 2008 is now available on Beatbots.

--- I will be telling ghost stories at Greenmount Cemetery (Baltimore) for a poetry event called Memento Mori. August 30th, 10am.

--- July 17th, performing from The 2008 World Almanac with Jackie Milad at Whartscape. Lineup includes Matmos, Missoula Oblongata, Nautical Almanac and more.

--- May 9, Carriage House, Baltimore, Md: "The 2008 World Almanac", a performance by Ric Royer and Jackie Milad, with soundtrack by Tom Boram.