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Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Midnight at the Pancake Shack, written by Jane M. Lee and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. The cast will feature Rhikki Ashai as Brenda, Pat Loeb as Gloria, and Matthew Scott Montgomery as Martin. This episode of the Open-Door Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Studios in Glendale, CA, and Sound Engineer Uril Soto . The podcast is FREE...

Send us Fan Mail Today is a very special day, it's Open-Door Podcast's first anniversary, and we're interviewing the founder, Bernadette Armstrong. We would like to thank you for supporting our theatre community. We are committed to launching new plays, new writers, and new talent. Support for Open-Door Playhouse comes from listeners like you. Your tax-deductible donations help keep...

Send us Fan Mail A mother and daughter’s relationship is tested as they deal with the death of their husband and father. Open-Door Playhouse presents Stay Awhile , an audio play written by Dana Hall and directed by Gary Lamb .   The cast will feature Gena Kay as the daughter and Camille Ameen as the mother. The Open-Door Playhouse Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Recording Studios in Glendale, CA w...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play of Chance, written by Jeff Mustard and directed by Dennis Gersten.  The podcast is FREE to listen to and download, but your tax-deductible donations are greatly appreciated. Please visit www.opendoorplayhouse.org/donate to contribute. Amber Jordan, caught up in all the endless struggles and disappointments of the past 21 years, is convin...

Send us Fan Mail Supernova, written by Elisabeth Hawes of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, directed by Bernadette Amstro ng as part of Open-Door Playhouse’s Prison Plays series. The play will premiere in two parts on the Open-Door Playhouse Podcast, Wednesday, July 14th, and Wednesday, July 21st. The podcast is FREE to listen to and download, but donations are greatly appreciated.  Superno...

Send us Fan Mail Open-Door Playhouse (Artistic Director, Bernadette Armstrong) will present the audio play of Supernova, written by Elisabeth Hawes of the Minnesota Department of Corrections, directed by Bernadette Amstrong, and presented as part of Open-Door Playhouse’s Prison Plays series. The play will premiere in two parts on the Open-Door Playhouse Podcast, Wednesday, July 14th, and Wednesday...

Send us Fan Mail Now playing in theater 34: Afterward, an audio play written by Karl Miller and directed by Bernadette Amstrong. In Afterward a husband and wife react differently to an environmental disaster. The cast will feature Bonnie Bailey Rea d and Gary Lamb . The Open-Door Playhouse Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Studios in Glendale, CA with Sound Design by Hall Cantrell. Karl Miller (Play...

Send us Fan Mail Now playing in theater 33 Joyland , written by Karen Saari and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. The cast will feature Joanna Ferbrache as Princes s and Ayla Rose Barreau as Lorna . The Open-Door Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Studios in Glendale, CA with Sound Design by Hall Cantrell. The Open-Door Playhouse is a podcast that supports new and emerging writers by producing plays...

Send us Fan Mail Now playing in Theater 32 is The Christensen Brothers as part of our Prison Plays series. The Christensen Brothers was written by Michael J. Moore of the Washington State Department of Corrections, directed by Joanne McGee-Lamb, and starring Matthew Scott Montgomery as Marshal, Blake Krist , as Alan and Daamen Krall as Ray. The Open-Door Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Studios in...

Send us Fan Mail Written by Scott P. Seibert of the Marion Correctional Institute in Ohio. Adapted by:  Daniel Lambert Cast: André Sogliuzzo  (As Dan) Abdul-Khaliq Murtadha (As Bill) Sound Production:  Recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA.  Recorded and Mixed by Hall Cantrell Sound Editor: Hall Cantrell Become a Patreon of Open-Door Playhouse Support the show Founded by playwright and fil...

Send us Fan Mail Now playing in Theatre 30 Penny Slots, written and directed by Kim Hlavac The cast will feature Goreti da Silva (Helen), Carole Goldman (Kay), and Marla Cotovsky (Marie), and Amir Abdullah (Masked Gunman). Listen to Penny Slots Part 2 Listen to Penny Slots Part 3 Sound Design is by Hall Cantrell. The Open-Door Playhouse Podcast is recorded at ES Audio Studios in Glendale, CA. The...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Open-Door Playhouse .  Support for Open-Door Playhouse comes from listeners like you, your donations help keep our plays on the Radio Stage.  A quick announcement about the Patreon campaign we recently launched for the show! If you’re a superfan and interested in supporting the show and getting bonus content - head over to patreon.com/opendoorplayhouse and join a commun...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Open-Door Playhouse .  Support for Open-Door Playhouse comes from listeners like you, your donations help keep our plays on the Radio Stage. A quick announcement about the Patreon campaign we recently launched for the show! If you’re a superfan and interested in supporting the show and getting bonus content - head over to patreon.com/opendoorplayhouse and join a communi...

Send us Fan Mail Today we bring you our first presentation in our new collaboration series we’ve titled - Across The Pond Theatre , the joining of Open Door Playhouse Theatre , based in Pasadena, California, and Our Kid and Me Productions , based in Oxfordshire, UK. For our first joint effort, we are pleased to present a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural short story, "Th...

Send us Fan Mail Written by Playwright - Emma Lefkowitz Directed by Dennis Gersten. Starring Sue Gisser as (Lenora) and Whitton Frank as (Ella) Recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA. Recorded and Mixed by Hall Cantrell Sound Editor: Hall Cantrell Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the...

Send us Fan Mail Gun Story Written by Karen Saari Directed by Gary Lee Reed and starring- Goreti da Silva as (Mae) & Eric Kwasnjuk as (Lloyd). Recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA.  Recorded and Mixed by Hall Cantrell Sound Editor: Hall Cantrell Support the show Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of...

Send us Fan Mail Writer: Brian C. Petti Brian is a Hudson-Valley, NY-based playwright who has been published and produced in NYC, LA, and Ireland. Cast: Anne Cooper as Woman #1   Anne Cooper, a member of SAG/AFTRA and AEA for over thirty years, has acted under the direction of many talented Film and TV directors. She is in the upcoming movie MARRY ME with Jennifer Lopez. She is a theatre consultan...

Send us Fan Mail Writer: Michael J Moore His books include Highway Twenty , which appeared on the Preliminary Ballot for the Bram Stoker Award, the bestselling post-apocalyptic novel, After the Change, which is used as curriculum at the University of Washington and the psychological thriller, Secret Harbor . His work has received awards, has appeared in various anthologies, journals, newspapers (i...

Send us Fan Mail A funny COVID story from Open-Door Playhouse Founder, Bernadette Armstrong. Bernadette Armstrong Bernadette moved to Los Angeles to work in film in the late 1990s and after her first two films went to festivals she took a short hiatus from writing until she fell in love with small theater. Since 2008 she has had several successful theater projects produced in No Hollywood. Her pla...

Send us Fan Mail Story: We’re excited to bring our first play in our 2021 series of plays from the PEN America’s PRISON WRITING PROGRAM, What’s Prison Like? Writer:  Matthew Mendoza Matthew Mendoza has published fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, all from prison! His play Freedom Feather was performed by Rehabilitation Through The Arts at the Brooklyn Book Festival as part of “Break Out 2018: Voices...

Send us Fan Mail Writer:   Gareth Williams Cast: Sue Gisser as Cheryl Sue Gisser is trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Steppenwolf West, the Groundlings, iOWest, Second City, Antaeus Academy, Theatricum Botanicum, and holds a BFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers. In her professional career, Sue is blessed to seldom work with a director, show, or theatre company o...

Send us Fan Mail Story: Bart, who is seventy, and Tyler, who is twenty-eight, happen to be on the same elevator when it becomes stuck between floors. Bart is concerned that his daughters will think he has gotten lost again and might send him to a retirement community. Tyler does not seem too concerned about anything. In the few minutes, they share in the elevator the two find a unique friendship t...

Send us Fan Mail The Story: For some, Christmas can bring up a lot of issues and when you add children to it, you might have to re-think the whole holiday. Writer: John McDonnell I've done many kinds of writing in a long and varied career, and I am always amazed at the power of words and stories to illuminate and bring joy to our lives. If you get the words right even the humblest catalog cop...

Send us Fan Mail Story: Your grandfather met a demon yesterday, but she's really not that bad. Inspired by Yiddish folktales, my dad's stories, and really good leftovers. Writer: Clare Bierman Japanese/Jewish playwright and lyricist and former cheesemonger. Based in Brooklyn by way of San Francisco and a bunch of farms. Currently a student in NYU's Graduate Musical Theater Writing P...

Send us Fan Mail Story: For some, Christmas can bring up a lot of issues and when you add children to it, you might have to re-think the whole holiday. Writer : Faith de Savigne Faith de Savigne has worked as a theatre critic, arts writer, and columnist. As well as having poems and poetry reviews published in various literary journals, she has completed two Masters Degrees in English Literature (U...