Audio Theater

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What if you could enjoy a drama or comedy without having to watch it? Such is the world of audio theater. Back in the early 20th century, radio offered audio theater of all types. The most famous was, of course, The War of the Worlds with Orson Wells’ Mercury Theater.

Recording a radio play a long time ago!

Out of the “socially distanced” world came the capability for actors to join over Zoom and other platforms to create drama, comedy, and more. I am pleased to help produce audio theater for podcasts. In the space below, you’ll find shows in which I have appeared. Don’t forget the serial, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.


MIDWORLD: “Return of the Werewolf”

Project Audion brings back to life a late-night radio horror show that has been dead for 83 years: a series which was only heard on the two dozen stations of the then-new Texas State Network. A single Midworld script is all that survives from it — a tale of werewolves and ghosts set in the Canadian wilderness. This is the first time the show has been performed since 1939. Watch our voice actors from across the US perform via Zoom or close your eyes and just listen…if you dare!


SHERLOCK HOLMES: A SCANDAL IN BOHEMIA

On 20 March 1888, Dr. Watson is visiting Sherlock Holmes when a masked gentleman arrives at 221B Baker Street. Initially introducing himself as Count von Kramm, he reveals himself as Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond von Ormstein, Grand Duke of Cassel-Felstein and hereditary King of Bohemia, after Holmes deduces his true identity. The King explains that five years earlier, he engaged in a secret relationship with American opera singer Irene Adler, who has since retired and now lives in London. He is set to marry a young Scandinavian princess but worries that her strictly principled family will call the marriage off should they learn of this impropriety. Holmes must recover an incriminating photograph. But where is it?


A PAIR OF LUNATICS

This fun little farce introduces us to two sane people who are visiting an asylum for the insane. The problem is that they don’t know that the other party is also sane. And so, they pretend.


A CHRISTMAS CAROL

A Christmas Carol, first edition

The classic story of Scrooge and the Three Ghosts of Christmas – Past, Present, and Future – is presented in three episodes. Join this cast of characters as Scrooge is transformed from a mean old miser to a generous gentleman.

Episode One: We meet Ebeneezer Scrooge. This squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner considers Christmas a “humbug” and projects this attitude to all he encounters. But, his old partner, Jacob Marley, seven years dead, has arranged for visits from three spirits in the hope of reforming this miser.

-Episode Two: Scrooge meets the Ghost of Christmas Past who shows him his mistakes that have led to his “humbug” life. Then the Ghost of Christmas Present arrives to show him what he is missing and how his actions might affect his family and employees.

Episode Three: Scrooge concludes his journey with the Ghost of Christmas Present and meets the fiercest ghost of all – the Ghost of Christmas Future. This Ghost shares a potential future that is Scrooge’s final undoing and results in his repentance.


20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA

We join the prolific naturalist, Professor Aronnax, his devoted assistant Conseil and the gritty harpooner Ned Land for an epic journey aboard the Nautilus, the world’s first submarine vessel. Forcefully led by the dangerous and enigmatic Captain Nemo on an unprecedented tour of the seven seas. Our three heroes are confronted by harrowing challenges, incredible adventure, and a host of the most unusual creatures. They must also wrestle with the dark forces that lurk in the depths of mankind’s souls if they are to return home alive.


THE TELL-TALE HEART

The classic short story by Edgar Allen Poe comes to your ears in this terrifying production. Please, listen to my story. Can I convince you that I was right? That I was sane in what I did? Did I kill him? Yes. Did he deserve it? If only you knew. What I did to that old man… with the vulture eye. The careful calculation of the murder, the perfect crime. The dismembering of the body. Hiding his heart under the floorboards. And that sound. That thumping sound. The dead man’s beating heart…


THE GREAT GATSBY

Nick Carraway retells the ups and downs of his life in New York City at the peak of the Roaring Twenties. Nick arrives, hungry for a new life of adventure and fortune. It’s there that he reconnects with his kind cousin, Daisy, and her strong-willed husband, Tom Buchanan. It’s not long before Nick also begins to learn more about his mysterious and generous neighbor, a wealthy man named Gatsby who has it all.

As Nick and Gatsby form an unlikely friendship, he learns that Gatsby is a long-lost love of Daisy (who is still married to Tom), and that Gatsby has built up his enormous fortune as part of an extravagant plan to win Daisy back at all costs.