These are some of the amazing people making cool stuff at RLA. Click on someone and see what they’re working on and what they’re going to be in.
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Mary Beth Rim
My first memory of radio was in the early 1980s. Mary Beth Rim, that’s me, a young girl then, is cuddled under an old blanket in the back of a brown station wagon. My family is driving home after having spent a fun day at Grand Mom and Grand Pop Gold’s house. It is dark outside, Mystery… Read more
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Robert Smythe
I’m Robert Smythe, a stage actor and voice performer who believes that the human voice has the power to carry the weight of a story and that vocal storytelling enables audiences to “see” through sound alone. Over the years, I’ve honed my voice to engage and transport audiences, working on radio plays, narration, and character-driven… Read more
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Sara Painter
A Philadelphia native, Sara Painter grew up listening to Prairie Home Companion, and loved the stories, the different voices, and using her imagination to fill in the gaps left by the absence of scenery, costumes and movement. She is drawn to the Radio Play style because of the challenge to use voice and sound to create… Read more
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Jared Reed
Founder, Radio Live Arts Hi! My name is Jared Reed. This project, radiolivearts.com, is born out of a love of spoken word performance—mostly audio drama and old-time radio programs, but also anything where the connection between word, speaker, and audience is at its most focused. My personal tastes run to the classical, but that’s mostly… Read more