Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast

This month’s guests are Diane Quinn and Bill Fuller, co-founders and driving force behind Unseen Theatre, an audio podcast showcasing (unproduced), original plays, featuring---something very much after my own heart---strong female protagonists, performed by SAG-AFTRA actors. Diane is Artistic Director/Co-Producer, and also has been an actor and playwright for Unseen Theatre, (and is additionally the podcast’s marketing director). Bill, her Co-Producer, audio engineers every sonic second, composes and arranges the podcast’s original music,(and handles web design, graphics) and is also a playwright.

SCOTT is an LGBTQ/neurodivergent/biracial Korean American writer. He has received five consecutive Writers Guild of America Awards for the daytime serial General Hospital, and numerous Emmy Award nominations. For over thirty years, his plays have been performed in New York City, his native Pittsburgh, across the United States, as well as internationally in Canada, Australia, the UK, Hungary, Singapore, Indonesia, Lebanon, and Dubai. His ”Second World Trilogy,” a speculative alt-history political/environmental love story, consists of three full-length plays spanning nearly 50 years. In addition, his sequence of short plays, ”Playing on the Periphery,” which tells the story of four LGBTQ+ third-graders, was previously presented as a concert reading by Reading Theatre Project, deep in red Pennsylvania. Monologues and scenes from the piece have been performed in “Don’t Say Gay” Florida.

Donald Loftus is a playwright/lyricist whose work has been performed around the globe and is one of the masterminds behind the online play reading group New York Pages. He’s has written the book and lyrics to several musicals (Abbey Victoria, Pollyanna, ‘Round Duffy Square, and Illusion), and his one-acts have been presented in over 100 play festivals around the country. Donald’s play “Joey” is the last of our 2024 Missing Home series.

Danny’s on the run and hiding out from a guy who should never have been crossed. Good thing he’s got his best friend Charlie with him. Featuring Sean Kimber as Danny and George Sapio as Charlie. Plus, we have a very down-to-Earth talk with the playwright, Raymond Alvin. Come join us!

Gregg T. Daniel is an actor, director, and educator who is currently midway through the mammoth journey of directing all of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle, ten plays that reflect the African-American experience in the United States. This October he’ll present Wilson’s Pulitzer prize winning “The Piano Lesson.” We also chat about his extensive 30+ year career on stage, television, movies, and teaching at USC.

Chloe Riederich is a playwright, director, and theatre practitioner, whose play ”Decisions, Decisions,” a sensitive, humorous comedy, is the first of our 2024 ”Missing Home” plays. Catch our production and a way-fun interview with Chloe themselves!