Show Dates/Times
(December 2017) Thursday, December 14th at 8pm Friday, December 15th at 8pm Saturday, December 16th at 3pm & 7:30pm Sunday December 17th at 3pm |
This production has now closed. We would like to thank everyone who attended. It was a real joy to bring these stories to you! ON-AIR/On-Stage
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THE PANELIST
Elaine Hyman
Elaine Hyman is a dynamo whose career stretches from The Lone Ranger in 1952, to a recurring role on today’s Broad City. She has been featured on Law & Order (the original, Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit), The Sopranos, Toma, and Dark Shadows. On Broadway, she was in The Norman Conquests Series (Living Together, Round and Round the Garden and Table Manners); Children! Children! and General Seeger. In radio, she has been featured in The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon.
Mac Rogers
MAC ROGERS is an award-winning audio dramatist and playwright based in New York City. His audio/podcast dramas STEAL THE STARS, THE MESSAGE and LIFEAFTER have been downloaded over six million times, and his TORCHWOOD audio thriller “A Kill To A View” was released through Big Finish and features actors from the acclaimed original television series. His stageplays include THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY (3-time New York Times Critic’s Pick, Time Out New York Critic’s Pick, Backstage Critic’s Pick, one of The Guardian’s top 10 New York shows of 2015, and winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere Production), FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS (featured in the New York Magazine Approval Matrix and nominated for the NYIT Award for Best Premier Production), GOD OF OBSIDIAN (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), LIGATURE MARKS (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), ASYMMETRIC (Time Out New York Critic’s Pick), VIRAL (winner of Outstanding Play at FringeNYC 2009), and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre awards). Mac’s audio/podcast dramas have won praise from Vanity Fair (from James Wolcott himself), The New York Times, The Guardian, Ars Technica, The Atlantic, IndieWire, New York Magazine, Popular Science, Doctor Who Magazine, SciFi Bulletin, and numerous others.
Steal the Stars is the story of Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, two government employees guarding the biggest secret in the world: a crashed UFO. Despite being forbidden to fraternize, Dak and Matt fall in love and decide to escape to a better life on the wings of an incredibly dangerous plan: they’re going to steal the alien body they’ve been guarding and sell the secret of its existence.
Bernadette Fiorella
BERNADETTE FIORELLA has been performing with her husband, Craig Wichman, and Quicksilver Radio Theater since 1998, both as a singer and doing sound effects for shows including: A Christmas Carol, Julius Caesar, The Speckled Band, Dracula, and most recently in The Cop and the Anthem and The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. She also sang with New York City Opera Chorus for 22 years. She has performed in recital at several New York City venues. For the past three years she has done concerts for seniors in Queens with The Melodians and in Manhattan with The Showstoppers. She is also an active member of the Episcopal Actors Guild.
Craig Wichman
CRAIG WICHMAN studied with Stella Adler, and has since worked in all media. Audio: Founder of QUICKSILVER RADIO THEATER, he has also appeared on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and at the FRIENDS OF OLD TIME RADIO conventions. Off-Broadway: THE FLASHING STREAM, JULIUS CAESAR. Regional: TWELVE ANGRY MEN, TECUMSEH! Film: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL AND MARIAN. TV: ONE LIFE TO LIVE, LAW & ORDER. Online: AMC SciFi Dept., Unemployed Philosophers' Guild. Author of STANDING IN THE SPIRIT AT YOUR ELBOW, the history of Dickens’ CHRISTMAS CAROL as radio/audio drama. (AEA/SAG-AFTRA). Soli Deo Gloria. [email protected]
Quicksilver Radio Theatre is a group of seasoned New York performing artists who are dedicated to using the classic Radio/Audio Drama form (full cast, layered sound effects, and musical score) to present stories worth telling, executed with both talent and heart. Quicksilver's work has aired nationally, and been heard internationally on the World Wide Web. Founded in 1995, Quicksilver has earned awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters: "Gold Reel,” THE SPECKLED BAND; "Silver Reel,” FRANKENSTEIN: MODERN PROMETHEUS; and from the National Audio Theatre: "Best Script,” LINCOLN'S LAST DAY. It has performed by invitation at The Paley Center for Media, where its shows are in the permanent Collection. (Also available on CD at [email protected].)
Elaine Hyman is a dynamo whose career stretches from The Lone Ranger in 1952, to a recurring role on today’s Broad City. She has been featured on Law & Order (the original, Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit), The Sopranos, Toma, and Dark Shadows. On Broadway, she was in The Norman Conquests Series (Living Together, Round and Round the Garden and Table Manners); Children! Children! and General Seeger. In radio, she has been featured in The Lone Ranger, Green Hornet, and The Challenge of the Yukon.
Mac Rogers
MAC ROGERS is an award-winning audio dramatist and playwright based in New York City. His audio/podcast dramas STEAL THE STARS, THE MESSAGE and LIFEAFTER have been downloaded over six million times, and his TORCHWOOD audio thriller “A Kill To A View” was released through Big Finish and features actors from the acclaimed original television series. His stageplays include THE HONEYCOMB TRILOGY (3-time New York Times Critic’s Pick, Time Out New York Critic’s Pick, Backstage Critic’s Pick, one of The Guardian’s top 10 New York shows of 2015, and winner of the New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Premiere Production), FRANKENSTEIN UPSTAIRS (featured in the New York Magazine Approval Matrix and nominated for the NYIT Award for Best Premier Production), GOD OF OBSIDIAN (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), LIGATURE MARKS (CityBeat Critic’s Pick), ASYMMETRIC (Time Out New York Critic’s Pick), VIRAL (winner of Outstanding Play at FringeNYC 2009), and UNIVERSAL ROBOTS (nominated for four New York Innovative Theatre awards). Mac’s audio/podcast dramas have won praise from Vanity Fair (from James Wolcott himself), The New York Times, The Guardian, Ars Technica, The Atlantic, IndieWire, New York Magazine, Popular Science, Doctor Who Magazine, SciFi Bulletin, and numerous others.
Steal the Stars is the story of Dakota Prentiss and Matt Salem, two government employees guarding the biggest secret in the world: a crashed UFO. Despite being forbidden to fraternize, Dak and Matt fall in love and decide to escape to a better life on the wings of an incredibly dangerous plan: they’re going to steal the alien body they’ve been guarding and sell the secret of its existence.
Bernadette Fiorella
BERNADETTE FIORELLA has been performing with her husband, Craig Wichman, and Quicksilver Radio Theater since 1998, both as a singer and doing sound effects for shows including: A Christmas Carol, Julius Caesar, The Speckled Band, Dracula, and most recently in The Cop and the Anthem and The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. She also sang with New York City Opera Chorus for 22 years. She has performed in recital at several New York City venues. For the past three years she has done concerts for seniors in Queens with The Melodians and in Manhattan with The Showstoppers. She is also an active member of the Episcopal Actors Guild.
Craig Wichman
CRAIG WICHMAN studied with Stella Adler, and has since worked in all media. Audio: Founder of QUICKSILVER RADIO THEATER, he has also appeared on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, and at the FRIENDS OF OLD TIME RADIO conventions. Off-Broadway: THE FLASHING STREAM, JULIUS CAESAR. Regional: TWELVE ANGRY MEN, TECUMSEH! Film: THE DEVIL YOU KNOW, THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL AND MARIAN. TV: ONE LIFE TO LIVE, LAW & ORDER. Online: AMC SciFi Dept., Unemployed Philosophers' Guild. Author of STANDING IN THE SPIRIT AT YOUR ELBOW, the history of Dickens’ CHRISTMAS CAROL as radio/audio drama. (AEA/SAG-AFTRA). Soli Deo Gloria. [email protected]
Quicksilver Radio Theatre is a group of seasoned New York performing artists who are dedicated to using the classic Radio/Audio Drama form (full cast, layered sound effects, and musical score) to present stories worth telling, executed with both talent and heart. Quicksilver's work has aired nationally, and been heard internationally on the World Wide Web. Founded in 1995, Quicksilver has earned awards from the National Federation of Community Broadcasters: "Gold Reel,” THE SPECKLED BAND; "Silver Reel,” FRANKENSTEIN: MODERN PROMETHEUS; and from the National Audio Theatre: "Best Script,” LINCOLN'S LAST DAY. It has performed by invitation at The Paley Center for Media, where its shows are in the permanent Collection. (Also available on CD at [email protected].)