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  • Welcome!

    This is a first post just to lay out what I am trying to do here and why. Suffice it to say, this is a place of the spoken word, of language, of sound. Its a place where we all can be whimsical, sincere, and serious (but I hope never solemn.) In this experiment of…

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  • What Im Learning So Far

    Part of the point of this whole experiment is to divorce the many years of assuming that something is only artistically true if I earn a living doing it. I think that’s an important distinction, and not wrong, and particularly difficult in an art form as essentially pragmatic as theatre. I still believe that the…

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  • Dave Fiebert

    Dave Fiebert is a retired puppeteer, having performed some 35 years, has always had a love for classic radio broadcasts. He is a product of Hedgerow Theater, Iron Age Theatre, and a recipient of an acting scholarship at Villanova University’s all now part of the distant past. More recently he plays music as a guitarist,…

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  • Public Benefit Model

    Hi all, Just a quick post. RLA is going to have a public benefit model for our performances – a portion of the ticket and 100% of additional donations will go to a partner organization. This is pretty exciting for me, as it lets RLA support charitable institutions and organizations that are doing important work…

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  • Solo Performance/Technical Thought

    So, in trying to motivate to work on a performance for a mystery story, I run into technical questions about how to deal with 2 person (or more scenes). I run into this with the Christmas Carol I perform, but that’s easier, I think, because that is so obviously a story narrated by Dickens. What…

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  • Things Are Percolating

    Nothing new to announce yet, but programming for Fall 2025 is starting to take shape, with a very interesting collaboration formulating. Something that’s come up as I talk to people about RLA is how excited people are to be making things, and giving themselves the permission to make things. It’s a wonderful energy to be…

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  • An. Amazing. Thing

    An amazing thing that has come out of starting RLA is hearing from new and interesting people. And in an odd way, in RLA being so personally mine, it’s allowing me to listen a whole lot better to other people and their path. I think the difference is when I was producing, the need to…

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