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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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  • Some Projects in mind

    Hi all, Some upcoming projects that are in the works or will soon be in production: Agatha Christie’s The Man in the Brown Suit – this one we tried to do at the Towne House failed so spectacularly it still hurts. Lesson: do not do a piece that relies on the spoken work in a…

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  • So Many Choices!

    One of the things that I am finding challenging in this project is now that I don’t have to make product all the time, I have to choose what I want to spend focused time on. The question of where my child gets their ADHD from is being answered. I’m getting excited now about a…

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  • Sounds

    What I’m most excited about in this RLA project is being able to think more creatively—I’m just so excited to have to tell stories/experiments in new ways that excite me, and then I can share. I’ve been geeking out on YouTube videos on sound production (this guy is great), but I’ve also been following BBC…

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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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