Patricia Duff (choreography / Cousin Tilly) studied acting in college and plied the trade later as a working actor in Chicago. LeGuin, Gish Jen, Margurite deAngeli and such distinguished actors as Angela Lansbury, Colleen Dewhurst and James Earl Jones. Judith’s children’s musical, Frankenbean and the Monster Carrots toured museums nationally and her radio broadcasts include two years of Choochokam programming and a season of “Live From The Islands,” promoting South Whidbey arts. Her “War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production” was nominated for a Grammy in 1988. Her first major live radio theatre work, “The Wonder Tales” (based on the Volsung Saga), was presented in four episodes at the Magic Theatre (San Francisco) in 1981.
Judith’s company, Otherworld Media, has staged numerous Whidbey productions including Don’t Crush That Dwarf, A Thousand Clowns, and the audio-cinematic staging of Agatha Christie’s “The BBC Murders.” cummings cabaret, “Summer Radio Festival” evenings, a family “Poetry Blast,” and A Child’s Christmas in Wales. In WICA’s first two years, Judith produced love is a place – an e.e. During her graduate school years at USC, Judith produced Beatrice Manley’s (co-founder of the San Francisco Actors Workshop) Conjunctions, which included her Anna Grace: a poem for dancers, and performances by notable visiting authors. Judith Walcutt (direction) had her first play, Lainguage, presented at the Ann Arbor Experimental Arts Festival and NYC’s LaMaMa Theatre shortly after her graduation from Bard College. Fifty years of broadcasts, movies, comedy scripts and original books, and Ossman’s own novels and memoirs are easily found on line.
One of its last four-man performances was at WICA in 2011.įiresign’s vast archive was acquired in 2018 by the Library of Congress. He directed the ragtime staging of Seven Keys to Baldpate in 2006.Īfter graduation from Columbia’s School of Drama, David had only directed a single chancel play in Greenwich Village before creating a familiar voice on New York’s WBAI-FM, where he produced a classic Beat-era broadcast series, “The Sullen Art.”ĭavid returned to live theater (as a performer) with the first Renaissance Pleasure Faires, where dialect and improv skills led to radio improv, then full-on folk-club stage plays with the newly-formed and super-hip Firesign Theatre in 1968.įiresign, in its “Beatles of Comedy” heyday, played sell-out dates at Carnegie Hall, The Roxy, and the Seattle Paramount among other historic venues. David Ossman (adaptation/direction) has appeared many times at WICA, notably in Lew Carlino’s magnificent School for Scandal, new plays by Richard Evans and Tom Churchill, Love Letters with Michael Learned, and most recently in The Investigation as President Trump.