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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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  • Working on (Self) Adaptation

    I’ve been working on adapting the Agatha Christie Murder of Roger Ackroyd for a while now. Honestly, the reason it’s “a while” and not “finished” is that I appreciate it as a technical exercise, but now that I’m in a world where I don’t have to produce something, I get/have/am forced to be a little…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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  • His Girl Friday | May 10, 7pm

    “Extra! Extra! Live on Air: His Girl Friday Returns as a Radio Play Extravaganza!” Its the bustling newsroom of the 1940s with a fast-talking, headline-chasing radio play adaptation of the classic screwball comedy His Girl Friday! Join us for an evening of rapid-fire wit, charm, and high-stakes journalism as star reporter Hildy Johnson goes head-to-head…

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  • Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol – Live Performance Recording

    Here’s Jared Reed in the 2021 candlelit reading of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with original music by Drew Petersen. Originally produced by Curio Theatre Company in West Philadelphia, Jared has crafted the piece from the reading version enacted by Dickens himself. This recording is from the live 2021 performance at Media Arts Council From…

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