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In the last week of October in 1993, the
Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop took place in Columbia, Missouri.
This is a week-long set of intensive workshops on every aspect of
radio theatre, from production to funding, microphone technique to
directing, writing to sound effects. The culmination of the week is
the live performance and broadcast of three new radio plays, supported
by funding from the National Endowment for the Arts and National Public
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| We performed the 1993 radio
plays in a beautiful old theatre in Columbia. The tapes were flown
to WGBH in Boston, where they went through post-production. The plays
were distributed over the NPR satellite system on the evening of June
9, 1994; NPR affiliates across the country were welcome to tape the
shows off the satellite and schedule them for broadcast. |
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| My place in all of this was
as a performer; after auditioning in mid-week, I was cast as the lead
role of Simon in the drama The Kitten Man (the other two plays
were comedies). This play takes place in the New York art scene, and
centers around the mysterious recurring motif in the work of a recently-"discovered"
artist, now dead of suicide. |
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| I played a man with an emotionally
tortured past who holds the secret to this mystery, but to reveal
the secret he must face truths he has denied and suppressed for much
of his life. Here you can see the cover of the next season's brochure,
with a photo of me performing alongside Meredith Ludwig. |
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