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Audiobooks Narrated by Ellis Greer
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A group of politically correct teachers are tasked with creating a Thanksgiving play for their students. They hire a Native American actor to lend authenticity to the proceedings. When it turns out she's ethnically ambiguous the teachers are left to navigate the resulting pitfalls in this rich satire. Includes a conversation with playwright Larissa FastHorse.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in September 2020.
Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Ellis Greer as Alicia
Josh Stamberg as Jaxton
Mark Jude Sullivan as Caden
Liza Weil as Logan
Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Recording Engineers: Neil Wogenson and Mark Holden
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner
Mixed by Charles Carroll for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Lead funding for The Thanksgiving Play is generously provided by: Barbara Timmer and Catherine Glynn Benkaim, Mike and Beth Kasser, The John Logan Foundation/Desert Wolf Productions, Jamie Wolf
"Ode to Joy" opening recorder quartet performed by Ulung Tanoto on his YouTube channel Si Ulung.
The Thanksgiving Play was commissioned and originally produced by Artists Repertory Theatre, Damaso Rodriguez, Artistic Director; Sarah Horton, Managing Director, Portland, Oregon.
Playwrights Horizons, Inc., New York City, produced the World Premiere of The Thanksgiving Play in 2018.
Angela Arden wants to be free of her suffocating marriage to film producer Sol Sussman. What better way than poison! Distraught by her father's death and convinced of her mother's guilt, Edith Sussman plots to get the truth out of Angela using any means necessary. Charles Busch stars in the role he originated in this camp sendup where tongues aren't the only thing dipped in acid.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in May 2019.
Directed by Carl Andress
With original music and songs by Lewis Flinn
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Charles Busch as Angela Arden Sussman
Mark Capri as Tony Parker
Willie Garson as Sol Sussman
Ellis Greer as Edith Sussman
Jeffery Self as Lance Sussman
Ruth Williamson as Bootsie
Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer, Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist, Brian Wallace. Production Manager, Zack Myers. Editor, Julian Nicholson.
"The Missing Girl" performed by Mary Birdsong, music and lyrics by Lewis Flinn.
"The Salt and Pepper Polka" performed by Mary Birdsong,
music by Lewis Flinn, lyrics by Dick Gallagher and Charles Busch.
In this unique audio adaptation of Neil Simon’s screenplay, Paula McFadden’s a down-on-her-luck actress who’s forced to take in a new roommate – the eccentric, noisy, and generally unpleasant Eliot Garfield– who also happens to be an actor. As their careers and finances hit new lows, their reluctant partnership threatens to turn into something neither one wants.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring (in alphabetical order):
Ellis Greer and Donna and others;
Anna Mathias as multiple characters;
Matthew Floyd Miller as Eliot Garfield;
Amy Pietz as Paula McFadden;
Raini Rodriguez as Lucy;
André Sogliuzzo as multiple characters;
Inger Tudor as Mrs. Crosby and others;
Matthew Wolf as Mark Bodine and others;
Adam Wylie as multiple characters
Directed by Rosalind Ayres. Recorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in January 2018.
You say you want a Revolution? The story of this country's struggle for independence is told with a fresh slant and theatrical inventiveness. As Thomas Jefferson struggles to find the right words to frame a nation, a young Quaker must weigh his desire to participate in the struggle against his pacifist beliefs.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast production starring:
Rosalind Ayres as Martha/Nelly Rose
Nate Corddry as Christian
Ellis Greer as Betty
Gregory Harrison as Carl/Thomas Jefferson
Lovensky Jean-Baptiste as James Hemmings
Ifan Meredith as Harry/Jim Madison
Darren Richardson as Daniel/George Mason/M. Perrault
Emily Swallow as Louisa/Imogen
Inger Tudor as Susannah/Sally
Additional chorus roles performed by the cast
Directed by Martin Jarvis. Recorded live in performance at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in March 2017.
Sound Effects Artist, Jonathan Kells Phillips. Production Manager, Katie Friesen. Music Supervisor, Ronn Lipkin. Associate Producer, Anna Lyse Erikson. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Recording Engineer, Sound Designer, and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood.
