Stage Door Radio Show

On Saturday February 11th I conducted a live interview and quiz show with cast members, director and organizers from the Back Alley Production’s up coming rendition of The Vagina Monologues which is going on at the Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth, NH February 17th-19th at 7PM. This cutting edge and razor sharp show brings to life a series of monologues from woman all over the globe. This annually celebrated and fantastically touching theatre piece helps raise awareness (and funds!) for domestic abuse against woman. Support these talented performers while knowing your ticket sales will go towards worthy causes since the proceeds will be going to Sexual Assault Support Services, A Safe Place and V-Day. My guests shared there experiences and thoughts about this V-Day initiative and we also had a great time with the live Vagina Monologues quiz show (around 44:00 minutes in.) The quiz show featured - Round 1: Va-Va-gina Monologues with questions pertaining specifically to Vagina Monologues - Round 2: All about Eve with questions pertaining to specifically Eve Ensler - Round 3: Vagina Facts and Round 4: Vagina Mixer. Listen to the very end of the interview as you will find out what fabulous prizes the guests won. Check out this years trailer: http://events.vday.org/2012/community/Portsmouth_%28TVM%29 and also for some more details of the show: http://events.vday.org/2012/community/Portsmouth_%28TVM%29

On Saturday November 5th on my radio show I was joined live in the WSCA Portsmouth Community Radio studio with students from the Portsmouth High School Performing Arts Department who performing songs from their upcoming production of “Beauty and the Beast.” After the in-studio performance, I had the opportunity to interview these talented students.

A set of interviews I conducted with various attendees and volunteers from Portsmouth Museum of Art’s exhibition Street AKA Museum (which caused quite a stir downtown) which occurred in the Summer of 2011. The exhibition presented artwork and murals by six emerging international talents: Bumblebee, Herakut, Shark Toof, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, and Andreas von Chrzanowski. Check out the museum's website here: http://www.portsmouthmfa.org

Our Pledge Drive at WSCA 106.1 Portsmouth Community Radio is coming up soon May 6-12, you can check out www.portsmouthcommunityradio.org to become a member or call 603-430-9722 to make a pledge during this time to the awesomest radio station on the NH Seacoast(and possibly anywhere) Listen to my promo for more info. . . here is a teaser -- I do some singing.

On April 2, 2011 I had a live interview with talented theatrical artists Maureen "Moe" Doucette, Mariah Sefel who are board members of the New Hampshire Community Theatre Association (NHCTA) along with Mark DeLancey who is the president of NHCTA. We discussed their efforts in reaching out and supporting New Hampshire area community theater organizations and individual theatrical artists. We also talked about NHCTA's theater festivals and competitions in in NH. Individually, they each had great stories to share about there experiences in as active participants in New Hampshire Community Theater and what community theater means to them.

On March 12, 2011 I interviewed students and organizers from the Seacoast area non-profit organization Arts in Reach as well as Portsmouth Museum of Art Director Cathy Sununu. Arts in Reach (AIR) mission is to empower teenage girls through mentoring and the arts. AIR provides mentoring through the arts to teenage girls in the Greater Seacoast of New Hampshire. AIR empowers teenage girls through innovative teaching and mentoring, utilizing accessible arts programming as the platform for success. We were also joined by Cathy Sununu, the director of the Portsmouth Museum of Art, and we discussed the museum’s involvement with AIR which has included organizing a discussion and gallery showing at the end of the March of the student’s portrait work which has been inspired by the Museum’s current iImage Exhibition and the students shared there incredible experiences being apart of this organization. Listen in to learn about AIR’s positive influence on teenage girls and also hear about Portsmouth Museum of Art’s efforts in community outreach.

On Saturday November 20th I interviewed a few well known local members of Portsmouth's theater community.  The co-directors of Pontine Theater Marguerite Matthews and Greg Gathers were on my show and they performed Ogden Nash's holiday classic "The Christmas that Almost Wasn't" which was followed by a live interview. We talked about there upcoming show "A Poet's Christmas," the history of Pontine Theater as well as there current theater season.

On October 9th, 2010 I interviewed various cast members and creator Billy Butler of Seacoast Repertory Theatre’s production of "Gay Bride of Frankenstein." Listen to my interview to find out more about the original rock musical that is unlike anything you have ever seen before.  This show is the winner of 7 Spotlight Awards including Best Musical, NY Musical Theatre Festival Top Selection, and TalkinBroadway.com's top 10 cast albums of 2009. 

On September 11th, 2010 I interviewed Linda Smith Palmer, the producer of the Seacoast Fringe Festival as well as Valerie Marcley her co-producer extraordinaire. Linda Smith Palmer is a prolific cartoonist, comedienne and puppeteer from New Hampshire and the Virgin Islands.  She performs both standup comedy with her remote control puppets in the Edinburgh Festival. Palmer has produced and written shows performed by adults and children including yearly extravaganzas for the Virgin Islands National Park. She also created the St. John Comedy Tour Bus, performed as a one-woman traveling show. Her productions feature inventive puppets and costuming. Palmer’s latest puppet is the machine gun carrying Fluffy, the Attack Poodle. For twenty years Palmer drew a daily political cartoon strip for the Virgin Island Daily News. Listen to my interview in which we discuss the Seacoast Fringe Festival as well as Linda Smith Palmer eclectic experiences in the theater world.

On June 19, 2010 I aired a pre-recorded interview w/the cast of Seacoast Repertory’s production of RENT, I also the director Brian Swayse and Craig Faulkner the Artistic Director of the theater. We talked about everything. Listen to me ask the famous “Inside the Actor’s Studio” to the actors of RENT, hear about Brian Swayse directing experiences and Craig Faulkner’s insight into New Hampshire’s thriving theater community.