Rice not only performed in more than 100 plays, but also created plays of his own, providing himself slight variants on the Jim Crow persona—as Cuff in "Oh, Hush!" (1833), Ginger Blue in "Virginia Mummy" (1835), and Bone Squash in "Bone Squash Diavolo" (1835). Shortly after making his first hit in London in "Oh, Hush", Rice starred in a more prestigious production, a three-act play at the Adelphi Theatre in London. Moreover, Rice wrote and starred in "Otello" (1844); he also played the title character in "Uncle Tom's Cabin". Starting in 1854 he played in one of the more prominent (and one of the least abolitionist) "Tom shows", loosely based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's book.