Radio Drama Revival wants to offer huge congratulations to Yuri Rasovsky and Roger Gregg for achieving nominations for two separate, yet equally big awards.

Yuri Rasovsky’s The Maltese Falcon was nominated for a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album, an enormous accomplishment for an audio drama.

And jeez, if you haven’t listened to The Maltese Falcon yet, do! I raved about it in a review I did a few months ago because it deserved it, and much more. It’s one of the best audio mysteries you’ll hear.

While the actual award went to Michael J. Fox’s, Always Looking Up, let’s congratulate Yuri again for bringing audio drama to a major awards night.

Our compatriot across the sea, Roger Gregg, has been nominted for his country’s Irish Times Theatre Award for Best Sound Design for his work in Barrabbas Theatre’s Johnny Patterson: The Singing Irish Clown.

While this doesn’t honor his radio drama work directly, his sound design is, of course, a direct byproduct of his excellent work in audio drama and the nomination is a huge honor.

Not being from Ireland, I asked Roger what these awards were about. He simply put, “in Ireland these are THE Awards. The only ones that matter when it comes to professional theatre.”

Congratulations again Roger and Yuri, it’s a great day for audio drama when two of our own get the recognition they deserve!

Ahh, ancient Greece. Hot nymphs, raging orgies, much wine, song, and occasional transformations into a goat. All well and good, right?

Well things are more wacky than ever in the sizzling and scandalous interpretation of the myth of Orpheus done by Roger Gregg, The Stuff of Myth.

This great production won a Gold Ogle in 2007 and has gotten rave reviews as a stage play. Now hear what the buzz is all about in the first bonus episode… and stay tuned the rest of the month for more!

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Radio Drama Revival Bonus Episode – Stuff of Myth 1 of 4

This week we feature Roger Gregg’s smokin’ adaptation of the Greek myth of Marsyas. Marsyas was just an average satyr, drinkin’, screwin’, sleepin’ and generally carrying on with the band of Dionysus… until he fights a magical horn which changes his life (and attitude) forever.

Off the Audio Gothic collection, which just about finishes this excellent series that I’ve trickled out on Radio Drama Revival for about a year now… The festival of Dionysus continues next week with “The Stuff of Myth!”

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Radio Drama Revival Episode 120 – Marsyas, the Hippest Satyr

Congratulations to Eric Benson, a listener in Canada who wins our “Name the Theme” contest. He gets a copy of Crazy Dog Live on CD!

Gadzooks! This week we speak to the one-and-only, inimitable, incredible, fiendishly creative Roger Gregg of Crazy Dog Audio Theater.

From deep in his secret lair of audio drama mystique in Dublin, Ireland I picked his brain about his career, his legacy with the RTE, and the future of the arts in a changing world. With a special shout out to Gerry Murphy Poetry.

An interview not to be missed!

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Radio Drama Revival Episode 117 – A Chat with Roger Gregg

This week on the show we welcome back the work of Roger Gregg with a piece created in cooperation with the Gaiety School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland.

Morgan O’Brien hangs in limbo between life and death, and finds the afterlife a much wilder place than he imagined. Confused, frustrated, and alone, he is forced to confront the reality of his actions made while alive. But is there still time to go back and change things?

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Radio Drama Revival Episode 116 – The Heart of Morphine

Credits

Written, Directed & Produced by Roger Gregg – © 2009.

Performed by the Gaiety School of Acting’s Graduating Class of 2009

The production was recorded at various indoor and outdoor locations in Dublin with sound engineer Lorraine McCarthy. Post-production, mixing etc. at Crazy Dog studios.

The script was written especially to suit the talents of the cast after a short devising workshop process as part of the Gaiety School?s Radio Drama / Acting-in-Audio course.

Music by Roger Gregg with cast members singing, playing guitar, fiddle and harmonica.

Ghoulish tales for the ear were heard last night as goblins and ghosts radiated out through the radio waves…

Hear it now!

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Radio Drama Revival 2008 Halloween Audio Horror Special

Special thanks due to…

• Crazy Dog Audio Theatre – Marianette 1.1
  
• Bill Dufris – The Horror of Walker’s Point
  
• FinalRune – Dark Passenger
• Echo Fiction – For being a great place to listen to new audio!
• The Grist Mill – The Estates
  
• Kevin MacLoed (LOTS of awesome music on his website)
• Oh… and a shout out to Anne Cammon at WKCR where FinalRune made another appearance… Let’s hear it for the ears in New York City!