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Sam A. Mowry (Director) Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Sam moved across the country before settling in Portland, OR in 1979. A professional actor and director for the last 24 years, Sam has produced dozens of independent productions on stage. Founder and director of the Heart Theater (notable productions include, The White Devil and The Trial) and The Shakespeare Martyr Complex, (Christmas Carol, Satan’s Fall, The Yellow Wallpaper). Some representative stage roles from over 100 options, Henry Higgins My Fair Lady, Lennie in Of Mice and Men, Macbeth, Edward II, James Leeds in Children of a Lesser God, Clark in Short Eyes, Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew, Andrew Wyke in Sleuth, Daniel Webster in The Devil and Daniel Webster, Dr. Astrov in Uncle Vanya, Shere Kahn in Jungle Book, Dr. Stockman in An Enemy of the People and Richard in The Lion in Winter.

A much sought after voice over actor, Sam has represented such companies as: Parker Furniture, The Discovery Channel, OMSI, Adidas, Nike, GI Joe’s, The Steinbeck Center and Thomason Auto Group. Sam is very excited to be voicing the titular character in Dry Smoke and Whispers Holodio theater’s new series on XM Radio, Shadow Man. Sam is also the Voice for the Horned Avenger a faith based creativity super hero series on DVD. He recently played Caliban in The Tempest for Speak-The-Speech.com, an internet audio project that will eventually provide new versions of all Shakespeare’s plays free of charge over the world wide web.
Personally, Sam is married to teacher, Director and playwright Cynthia McGean with whom he has collaborated on numerous occasions. His son Atticus Welles Mowry is attending college locally as he pursues a wide variety of interests. Sam is represented by Stacey Stahl and Tara Strong at IN BOTH EARS

Robert A. Kowal (Producer) is a New York University graduate holding a B.F.A. degree in Film & Television with twelve years vocational experience in both creative and technical capacities. As the sole Proprietor of A Priori, specializing in audio his clients have included ABC News, CBS News, Tokyo Broadcasting System, KHET-TV Asia Now, National Geographic Television, PBS ANoble Legacy@, A La Carte Communications Julia Child - Cooking with Master Chefs, PBS AScientific American Frontiers. His proficiencies include audio equipment, synchronous location recording, sound editing and mixing, as well as being fully competent with broadcast video and editing equipment including the Avid Media Composer and Pro Tools.

Cynthia McGean, WRW’s dramaturge and resident playwright is an award-winning published writer, director, actress, social service veteran and educator. Her original script Pandora’s Box received the Grand Prize from the National Audio Theatre Festival’s 2005 Script Competition and her adaptation of Frankenstein was awarded a Special Gold Ogle Award for Best Adaptation. Original scripts for WRW include Call of the Mummy, Meditations of a Gargoyle , The Truth About the White Eagle and Can You Hear Me Now?   Along with Frankenstein, she has adapted Around the World in Eighty Days and The Hobbit for WRW. Cynthia leads the Writers-On-the-Air Workshop and has just finished her first novel. She has written scripts for traditional stage productions, readers theater, puppetry and audio theater. Henry and Ramona , her adaptation of Beverly Cleary’s beloved stories, has been produced at theaters throughout the United States and her original script, Perseus, Hero of Ancient Greece , is part of Tears of Joy Puppet Theatre’s rotating repertoire. She has acted in numerous productions for WRW and a variety of local stage theaters. Directing credits include an audio theater production of The Tempest for Speak-the-speech.com and pieces for WRW’s Murder of Crows, plus stage theater productions of The Yellow Wallpaper, A Christmas Carol, Winnie-the-Pooh, The Secret Garden, Taming of the Shrew, The Monkey King and Marvin’s Room.   She is proud to be teaching third grade at Lot Whitcomb Elementary School in Milwaukie, Oregon.

Mary Robinette Kowal has worked as a professional puppeteer since 1989. During that time she performed, using a wide range of character voices, for the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and her own company, Other Hand Productions. Her work has garnered two Drammys and an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence, the highest award an American puppeteer can achieve. In addition to maintaining the WRW website, she is a published author, and wrote Sweetheart for Murder of Crows.

Martin John Gallagher is an award-winning national musical director, computerized musical arranger and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. He is a three-time Drammy winner, and a five-time nominee. He works in five Western states, and he’s worked with every significant theatre company in Portland. He designed the synthesizer programming for the Portland Opera’s recent production of View From a Bridge. This summer he musical directed Rogers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella for the City of Portland at Washington Park Rose Garden using computerized sequencing to simulate the pit band (and stay within budget).

He is a featured presenter and writer for The United States Institute of Theatre Technology. He was a judge and keynote speaker for first ever Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival sound design competition last year. Also, he has just released an interactive CD-ROM Wireless Microphones In the Theatre for Sound, Costume, Wig and Makeup Designers, and Production Coordinators. It is available directly from Mr. Gallagher.

His educational web site about theatrical sound design is http://www.mediadwarf.com/dwarf/marty. He claims to have paid for his tickets to the original Woodstock Festival in 1969.

Marc Rose Marc is a composer, sound designer who has been co-producing Dry Smoke & Whispers Holodio Theatre on and off for 23 years. In addition to bringing to life the inter-dimensional exploits of Emille Song and company, Marc has composed themes for the likes of AT&T, Jack Hanna’s Wildlife Adventures, Busch Entertainment and Capitol Radio London.

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The Lodestone Catalog is the source for contemporary audio theater. This means new and exciting works, not “old-time radio.” Although we are fans of the old stuff, we specialize in works by people who are currently producing new works. These may range from the famous to the obscure, but always represent works which have interested, excited, entertained, and/or educated us here at LodesTone in some way, and that we, as fans of the medium, want to share with you.

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The president of the LodesTone Catalog is John Weber, a long time fan, engineer, and producer of audio theater. A wonderful guy who is tireless in his efforts to support and promote the timeless wonder that is audio theater.

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The Wind That Shakes the Corn mp3

In honor of William S. Gregory’s very successful adaptation of The Confessions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, we present here a short piece from last years Two Tales of Terror broadcast on KBOO. We hope you enjoy this offering in the memory of Halloween, before Christmas takes over completely. The story of a time when the people knew the land and vice-a-versa as it turns out.

The shows stars: Janet Penner, Kobal and Toni Lima, Cynthia McGean, James Lawrence, Sam A. Mowry and Chris Porter.

Original music by Martin John Gallagher

Produced and Directed by Sam A. Mowry

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Audio Theater.com - A lost art form? Movies for the mind! An alternative for boring radio! Over 125 theater companies in America. Come inside and discover. The place for information on the whos, hows and whys of Audio Theater around the world.

Dry Smoke and Whispers Holodio Theater - Our NW neighbors and frequent collaboraters who produce some of the best audio theater you’ll ever hear. Multiple Award Winners and an amazing, beautiful site for browsing (look for surprizes).

Afterhell Another NW Audio neighbor and a very cool company. Ollin Productions presents some of the cutting edge horror that the internet is always promising. Here’s the pitch: “All over the world, civilization has fallen. Cities burn with lunacy and brimstone. Science can’t explain it. Faith can’t account for it. The human race is under attack from its own shadows, sins, and deepest fears. The survivors face a surreal existence where only the darkest dreams come true. No one is safe. And everyone is on trial. Poetic justice and naked cruelty. Personal demons and infernal beasts. It’s all here. This is the home of the damned. This is AFTERHELL.”
See what we mean. Check ‘em out. You can probably meet Joe and Jamie at a WRW live show, selling the NW’s finest audio drama.

The Sonic Society A compendium of Modern Audio Drama from Jack Ward and Andrew Dorfman broadcast from CKDU in Halifax, Nova Scotia. A wonderful show with complete episodes of recent works by, Us, Dry Smoke, Colonial Radio theare, Crazy Dog etc. plus interviews and extras. Streamed and podcast so you have no reason to miss an episode.

The Society of Audio Addicts. The brain child of Dani Cutler and official fansite of the Sonic Society and audio theater in general. A trove of information on Audio Theater, what’s coming on the Sonic Society and a variety of podcasts and releated events. There is also a Frapper map which shows the locations of Audio fans around the world, vist her site and get on the map.

KBOO - is broadcast at 90.7 on your FM dial and is simulcast over the World Wide Web at http://www.kboo.fm/index.php.

Martin Gallagher’s site. - Our resident Sound Designer lives a life as a theatrical sound expert. Covers information on his career and working as a professional sound designer. It also offers the option of buying his invaluable CD on the subject of wireless microphones.

Great Northern Audio Theater - The force behind the Mark Time Awards and the Independent Audio Theater Producers Conference. Jerry Stearns and Brian Price, Kings of the Audio Heartland. Great producers and leaders for the entire Audio Theater community.

Speak-the-Speech.com - Speak the Speech is a small organization in Portland, Oregon, working to freely distribute engaging audio presentations of all of Shakespeare’s plays to as wide an audience as possible via the internet and other electronic media. Many of our actors donate their time to this project.

Transom - Transom.org is an experiment in channeling new work and voices to public radio through the Internet, for discussing that work, and encouraging more. Technical and production support and info as well as in the head of the producer type articles and interviews.

Words at War: - World War II Era Radio Drama and the Postwar Broadcasting Industry Blacklist.

Golden Radio Buffs of Maryland - a site of old-time-radio fans who want to perpetuate radio as it was in the Golden Age.

Scripts

Dracula - Mercury Theater on the Air’s First Production

The Shadow: Silent Avenger - Our first broadcast.

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The Shadow The Shadow Knows Real Media - 264K Closing Credits .mp3 - 1,295K The Full Half-Hour Broadcast of Silent Avenger

The Call of the Mummy The Full Half-Hour Broadcast of The Call of the Mummy by Cynthia J. McGean

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The Willamette Radio Workshop is a professional theatrical organization dedicated to the creation of original material for presentation on the Radio, Internet, as Compact Disks or whatever audio venues are available or appropriate. We produce our shows both in studio and at live venues. As an organization we want to acknowledge the influence and preserve the history of Radio Theatre as we work to create its present, to this end our work also includes re-creations or re-imaginings of Classic Radio programs.

UFO FESTIVAL 2008 IS ON IT’S WAY!

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The WRW crew is back for more Sci-Fi thrills with an original adaptation of the classic “The Thing” by Afterhell’s own Joe Medina, following in the footsteps of Howard Hawks and John Carpenter. Plus classic OTR with “Flash Gordon”. Don’t miss out!

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All original images, characters & designs on this site
1993-2006 by Sam A. Mowry unless otherwise noted.
Website design by Mary Robinette Kowal