THEATER 43: David, Meet Sarah

Open-Door Playhouse

Open-Door Playhouse will present the audio play of David, Meet Sarah written by Lee
Franklin and directed by Bernadette Armstrong.
The performance will run approximately 10 minutes, with no intermission.
The cast will feature Elaine Mello as Sarah and Daamen Krall as David and directed by Bernadette Armstrong. This episode of the Open-Door Podcast is recorded at ES Audio
Studios in Glendale, CA and Sound Engineer Uril Soto.
Lee Franklin (Playwright) Background: Mr. Franklin lives in the Portland, ME area. He has acted and directed in countless productions over his career, both as an amateur and professional. He graduated from UConn in 1974 with a BFA in theatre and lived/worked in NYC for nearly ten years. Mr. Franklin recently earned 1st & 2nd Place and Finalist designations for his one-act play, The Sea Nest, 1st Place and People’s Choice for another one-act play, Just Playin’, along with Finalist designations for Isaac, a two- act documentary play and The Thesis, a two-act drama. He has also received many accolades for his short plays. Mr. Franklin is a member of the Dramatists Guild.
Bernadette Armstrong (Director) Bernadette earned her degree in Film & Television
at San Francisco State University and directed several short films for festivals, until she fell in love with live theater. She developed the Open-Door Playhouse Podcast in 2020 to bring theater to the Radio Stage after the pandemic shuttered live in-person performances. The Open-Door Playhouse Podcast has given writers a place for their words to be heard, and actors a stage to act.
The Open-Door Playhouse is a podcast that supports new and emerging writers by producing plays in the style of the live Radio Plays popular in the 1940s & 50s. Open-Door Playhouse is hosted by playwright and producer Bernadette Armstrong who conceived of the podcast after her most recent project, Custody, which was scheduled to open in North Hollywood on September 8, 2020 at the Secret Rose Theater, was canceled due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Since September the podcast has presented over 36 new plays by emerging playwrights from all over the country and has been downloaded over 2,500 times. www.opendoorplayhouse.org

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Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.
Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.
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