Carla Parker (Writer/Director/Lyricist) is an Ochre House Theater company member & Operations Manager with a Masters in Theater Production from Central Washington University. Carla joined Ochre House Theater as a company member in 2011. Ms. Parker has been involved (on & offstage) in over 20 productions at Ochre House Theater.For tickets or more in…

Michael Merschel is an editor at the Dallas Morning News. He's also written plays, contributed to A Prairie Home Companion and composed an out-of-office reply that appeared in The New York Times and on NPR. Although he was featured on Humans of New York, he lives in Texas with his wife and three kids, who tell him he is not all that funny, usually.…

Jack Heifner is best known for his play Vanities, which ran for five years in New York and became one of the longest running plays in off-Broadway history. He is also the author of Patio/Porch, Natural Disasters, Running on Empty, Bargains, Boys’ Play, Home Fires, Heartbreak, Comfort and Joy, The Lemon Cookie, Dwarf Tossing and over thirty other pl…

Selected excerpts from the July 2017, Pandora's Box Poetry Showcase at Deep Vellum Books.Features include:Matt Amott - Sunset Limited, Always OpenTodd Cirillo - A Good Strategy, Love CrazyBill Gainer - It’s late and I’ve been drinking, An Evening IntrusionRecorded by Mark Noble, at Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, Texas on 7/21/2017.Intro and exit music …

Bill Gainer interview, recorded by Mark Noble, at Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, Texas on 7/21/2017.Bill Gainer is known for the openness of his confessional poetry and is recognized as one of the founding contributors to the modern movement of "After Hours Poetry".Intro and exit music provided by James Vernon, from the James Vernon Trio recording, Hou…

Joanie Schultz came to WaterTower Theatre in December of 2016. Before WaterTower, Joanie served as Associate Artistic Producer at Victory Gardens Theater, as part of the Leadership U One-on-One Fellowship funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation administered through TCG, the national non-profit regional theatre service organization. She is also a …

Eddie Dunlap interview, recorded at Mondo Drummers Studio in Ft. Worth, Texas, July 1, 2017. Intro and exit music is titled, Brazil in a Cadillac in 1970 New York, composed by The ArKesTra.http://www.mondodrummers.comBy podcasts by Mark David Noble

Matthew Posey interview recorded at the Ochre House Theater, June 13, 2017. Intro and exit music from "Elemental," by Calvin Hazen.By podcasts by Mark David Noble

Interview with Wes Stephenson, bassist of The Funky Knuckles, recorded June 6, 2017 at Independent Bar & Kitchen, Dallas, Texas.For more info, please visit:https://www.thefunkyknuckles.comhttp://hoplitemusic.comhttps://www.ibkdallas.comhttps://itunes.apple.com/us/album/new-birth/id1120453264By podcasts by Mark David Noble

Rhonda Boutté is an actor and director, well known in the Dallas theater community. In June 2017, Rhonda will direct the world premiere of Br’er Cotton by Tearrance Arville Chisholm at Kitchen Dog Theater. Rhonda’s Independent spirit drives her to seek out unusual roles produced by small independent theaters as well, such as The Shine Plays – The W…

Tanya Wardell interviewed by Mark David Noble, recorded at Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TX, 05/16/2017.Special thanks to James Vernon and the James Vernon Trio / house of jazz(South Padre Island), used by permission.By podcasts by Mark David Noble

Performances by: A. Kendra Greene, Stevie Edwards and Courtney Marie with Lauren BelmoreSpecial thanks to James Vernon and the James Vernon Trio (JVT-house of jazz, South Padre Island) used by permissionThis program was recorded live at Deep Vellum Books, Dallas, TXRecorded and produced by Mark David Noble…

"Untitled" a new poem by Robin TurnerBy podcasts by Mark David Noble

Renee Rossi on writingBy podcasts by Mark David Noble

Renee Rossi reading Loving, MeticulouslyBy podcasts by Mark David Noble

Robin Turner discusses current writing projects, Nov 2016.By podcasts by Mark David Noble

Robert Torres has been performing poetry since 2009. He started the Words Reading Series in San Antonio before moving to Denton, where he ran the Punk Poet Society until 2014. He now runs the Pegasus Reading Series in Dallas with Sebastian Paramo. He previously hosted the Free Word webcast with Erica GDLR a.k.a. Edyka Chilome. He studied creative w…

Lucas Jacob's poems have appeared in journals including Southwest Review, Barrow Street, Evansville Review, and Western Humanities Review. His first collection, the chapbook A Hole in the Light, came out through Anchor & Plume Press in March of this year. He is a teacher and administrator at Trinity Valley School in Fort Worth.This segment was reco…

Since winning Southwest Review’s Morton Marr Poetry Prize in 2008, Lisa Huffaker’s poems have been published or are forthcoming in Southwest Review, Poet Lore, Measure, Southern Poetry Review, Mezzo Cammin, The Texas Observer, Able Muse, and Southern Humanities Review, which recently nominated her for the Pushcart Prize. Lisa’s primary background i…

Chris George lives and works in Dallas, Texas, where he is the resident writer at Two Bronze Doors art gallery and editor-in-chief of the literary journal Disembodied Text. His work has been featured in a number of journals, including The Arts United, Spiderweb Salon, and Sarah Lawrence's LUX."To Redding, California" was recorded at the Margo Jones…

Bruce Bond is the author of fifteen books, most recently Choir of the Wells: A Tetralogy (Etruscan, 2013), The Visible (LSU, 2012), Peal (Etruscan, 2009), and Blind Rain (LSU, 2008). His forthcoming books include For the Lost Cathedral (LSU Press), Black Anthem (Tampa Review Prize, University of Tampa Press), Gold Bee (Crab Orchard Open Competition…

"Duende" by Cyrus CassellsCyrus Cassells has five books: The Mud Actor, a National Poetry Series winner and finalist for the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award; Soul Make a Path Through Shouting, hailed as one of the Best Books of 1994 by Publishers Weekly, a winner of the Poetry Society of America’s William Carlos Williams Award and a finalist for the …