Hidden Exposition
The Story Toolkit Podcast spoke about “invisible” or “hidden” exposition in one of its recent episodes. Hiding your exposition in radio drama is tricky business. Teleplays and film scripts have the ability to point to visual cues; audio does not. Currently, the podcast listening audience seems to be in love with overly wrought exposition. This is the nature of the podcast …
Transitions Key in Audio Drama
Once again The Story Toolkit Podcast got me thinking. This time it was about Stranger Things (episode 23). Bassim El-Wakil and Luke Lyon-Wall in the second half of the podcast episode talk about how transitions are not just clever endings of scenes, but are key to keeping the thread of the story coherent. Isn’t that even MORE important in audio drama? …
Open a Window
It’s time to retire some old plays, and revamp others. For various reasons, many of my original productions are gone like the wind… That may sound initially sad, but I was surprised when I announced the removal of nearly half of EVP’s old shows, the flood of messages on Facebook and through emails of support. What shocked me even more was …
Year Zero
It is impossibly exciting for me. A fan of pulp science fiction all my life, when I was in my early twenties I wrote a tribute- somewhat more a parody- of Buck Rogers. He was called Biff Straker. He was an honest, jock, who wasn’t all that smart. but he meant well. There was a lot to look in the …
Tulpa
So Tulpa hit the airwaves on Halloween Night WKNO 91.1’s “NPR for the mid-South” along with a large group of other stellar audio drama shows that were produced by the endlessly talented actors at Chatterbox Audio, directed and produced by artist’s gift to radio drama- Bob Arnold. I’ve always loved Chatterbox’s productions; love that they do such high quality; and love …
Zombies on a Boat!
What do you get when you take Mel Smith’s dark visions of a zombie apocalypse and Alex Nino’s spine tingling artistry? Why the brutal and stark thriller Dead Ahead of course! This awesomely gruesome graphic novel became my great summer project to complete as an Audio Drama for Colonial Radio Theatre. Taking a visual medium like a comic and turning …
Chattering Horror
My good friends at Chatterbox Audio Theater have an exciting new Halloween planned for listeners. They’ve started their search for some great horror stories in their 2014 Halloween Show Script Competition. There’s a couple of different size recommendations and requirements and the dead line is August 15th. I made a couple of mistakes in my own submission but I was …