THE EYE IN THE SKY PROJECT: An innovative experiment in epistolary radio drama

Episode 2

Written by Erin Courtney, Greg Romero & Daniel Talbott

Directed by Brad McEntire

Performed by

John Flores ("intro"), Megan Woodall ("Well"), Jeffrey Schmidt, Lydia Mackay ("Goodb(eye)")and Jeff Swearingen ("On the Fifth Day of the Week")

Audio Recording by John Flores

Original Music by Chris Humphrey

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Erin Courtney (playwright - "Well") Ms. Courtney's plays have been produced or developed by Clubbed Thumb (ALICE THE MAGNET, DEMON BABY, PRICKED, SUMMER PLAY, DOWNWINDERS). The Public Theater and Birmingham Repertory (DEMON BABY), The Vineyard (ALICE THE MAGNET), The Flea (MOTHER'S COUCH), The Actors Theater of Louisville (OWLS), Her play QUIVER AND TWITCH was developed in the Soho Rep writers/directors lab, had a workshop at New York Stage Film and is currently being developed at the Vineyard Theater. Her latest play BLACK CAT LOST is a commission from Soho Rep. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell colony, a recipient of a NYSCA grant and a MAP Fund grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. Her play OWLS is published by Smith and Kraus in Humana Festival 2001: The Complete Plays and DEMON BABY is published in two anthologies New Downtown Now and Funny, Strange, Provocative: Seven Plays from Clubbed Thumb. As an undergraduate, Ms. Courtney studied with Paula Vogel at Brown University and as a graduate student she studied with Mac Wellman at Brooklyn College. She currently teaches playwriting at Brooklyn College and is an affiliated artist with Clubbed Thumb and New York's acclaimed 13P. She is the co-founder of the Brooklyn Writer's Space as well as Room 58.

Greg Romero (playwright - "Goodb(eye)") is a playwright/theater artist, originally from Louisiana. Currently based in Philadelphia, his works include THE MOST BEAUTIFUL LULLABY YOU'VE EVER HEARD, THE MILKY WAY CABARET, THE MISHUMAA, and DANDELION MOMMA, and have been produced off-off Broadway by City Attic Theatre and Working Man's Clothes Productions, and across the country by Salvage Vanguard Theater, Rude Mechanicals Theatre Collective, Theater In My Basement, Specific Gravity Ensemble, and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Romero's work explores memory, imagination, pain, dreams, rites of passage, the overlapping of time, and the flawed and fascinating guts and souls of human beings. Inspired and haunted by space, Romero has created work performed in elevators, porches, warehouses, loft apartments, punk stages, museums, sidewalks, basement crawl spaces, and public bathrooms. Romero has also collaborated several times with electronic music composer Mike Vernusky on live performance projects including THE BOOK OF REMEMBERANCE AND FORGETTING, THE EULOGY PROJECT, and currently, RADIO GHOSTS, in a form they are calling "electro-theater". Romero has been commissioned by The Cardboard Box Collaborative, Austin Script Works, and Audacity Theatre Lab, and is a member of Philadelphia Dramatists Center, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and The Dramatists Guild of America. He has been a finalist for the Heideman Award, a semi-finalist for the Princess Grace Award and his works have been published by Heinemann Press and Playscripts, Inc. Romero received a BA in Liberal Arts from the Louisiana Scholars College and an MFA in Playwriting from The University of Texas-Austin where he held the James A. Michener Fellowship. He has taught Playwriting at The Eugene O'Neill National Theater Institute, The Wilma Theater, and Philadelphia Dramatists Center and taught Theater at The University of the Arts and Saint Joseph's University. Most recently, Romero was selected as the first-ever Resident Writer of the ArtsEdge Residency, created by The Kelly Writers House and The University of Pennsylvania. For more info visit Greg's website.

Daniel Talbott (playwright - "On the Fifth Day of the Week") has most recently worked as an actor on MARAT/SADE (The Classical Theatre of Harlem), PROGRESS, (Ian Morgan and Immigrants' Theatre Project), PASSION PLAY workshop (The Goodman Theatre), THE BEGINNING OF THE AND (Audax Theater Group), THE REVENGER'S TRAGEDY (Red Bull Theater), MANIC FLIGHT REACTION (New York Stage and Film), 3F, 4F (The Magic Theatre - Dean Goodman Choice Award), LEARNING CURVE (Besch Solinger Productions), EURYDICE (Berkeley Rep - Dean Goodman Choice Award), ERIN GO BRA-LESS (The O'Neill Playwrights Conference), VENICE IN VEGAS (HB Playwrights), NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A STORM (Edge Theater Company), and A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM (The American Repertory Theatre). His most recent film and television work includes Buffalo Girls, Missionary Position, and Law and Order. His work as a director and playwright has been seen at Singularity, Synapse Productions, Six Figures, Expanded Arts, EST, Rattlestick, Soho Rep, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Royal Court. He is the recipient of a Drama-Logue Award for acting and was named one of 15 People of the Year 2006 by nytheatre.com. He is a graduate of Juilliard and of Solano College Theatre’s ATP and is the founding Artistic Director of Rising Phoenix Rep.

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