The Mask of Inanna

Michael Bergonzi at Audio Drama Reviews has posted his review of The Mask of Inanna.

The ending is where this piece truly shines. Truth be told, the middle was a slog to get through, mostly because it felt like setup or simply wasn’t interesting. But, man was that set up worth it. … 5/5 Stars

Thank you, Michael!

Audio drama critic Scott Roche reviews The Mask of Inanna on his website.

He reviews many other audio works on his site too – check it out!

We are psyched to announce that DJ John Lovering will be playing The Mask of Inanna on WSCA 106.1 FM, Portsmouth Community Radio (www.wscafm.org).

The program will start between 6:08 and 6:12PM on the following dates:

• Tuesday, January 8
• Tuesday, January 15
• Tuesday, January 22
• Tuesday, January 29
• Tuesday, February 5
• Tuesday, February 12
• Tuesday, February 19
• Tuesday, February 26
• Tuesday, March 5

You can listen to the radio stream from this link.

John will also be playing Dracula: The Voyage of the Demeter on Tuesday, December 18th at about  7:15 – 7:20PM. It stars Bob Stroud himself, James Scheffler!

Thanks be to John, and I hope New Hampshire enjoys our shows!

Dave Robison and Brion Humphrey of The Roundtable Podcast interviewed me for a couple segments of their show.

• A one-on-one interview segment, in which I explain how all writing is fetish
• A segment in which I help Dave, Brion and Doc review a novel by Anthony Sunderland

Dave and Brion were absolutely wonderful and were a joy to work with. They have the energy of ten podcasts, all of them produced from L.A. Congrats, guys – it was a pleasure!

Their show is a highly entertaining yet educational exploration into the personal creative process of authors. They really love what they do and they reveal how different the process is for each of us. Check out their shows!

It’s official! Announced at Dragon*Con…  The Mask of Inanna has won the 2012 Parsec Award for the Best Speculative Fiction Audio Drama (Long Form) category (initial announcement). For those who don’t know, the Parsec Awards are one of the most prestigious audio drama awards out there.

Julia Lunetta picked up the award for me (shown to the right).

I’m just speechless right now. We were up against some tough competition who all deserved the award as much as we did. (I recommend checking out Second Shift which is awesome and stars a lot of the same cast I had.)

Thanks to everybody for the love and support we got.

Here’s a link to my acceptance speech, which Julia read at the ceremony. Listen to audio of Julia Lunetta and Brad Smith getting the award and giving the speech here (2.5MB MP3) – original source.

Hey folks, Brad Smith of Second Shift podcast, Bryan Lincoln of FullCast Podcast and I taught a class recently on the basics of audio work for podcasts and audio drama. I’d like to share a video of Brad’s presentation, in which Brad goes through the steps of how to edit voice and create special effects using the free software tool Audacity.

Brad’s Super Audacious Presentation!

Brad’s site also includes his source sound effects so you can make the same sound effects he did, and follow along at home.

This was a terrific class and I hope you learn something new for your own audio work!

Audio drama critic Lawrence Raw reviews The Mask of Inanna on his website.

He reviews many other audio works on his site too – check it out!

Season 2, Episodes 1 and 2 are being released on Fred Greenhalgh’s Radio Drama Revival podcast!

Link to Season 2, Episode 1, “Glory Days”.

Link to Season 2, Episode 2, “Smoking Monkey”. (Coming next week)

The Post-Meridian Radio Players are pleased to announce that Boston Free Radio will be airing Season 1 of The Mask of Inanna every Monday night at 10PM EST, starting tonight September 19 to October 17, 2011.

Boston Free Radio has a stream available over the live365 service which listeners can catch by clicking the “Launch the Boston Free Radio Player” link on their home page.

Boston Free Radio’s broadcast schedule is available here.

They will be broadcasting our second season in January 2012.

Again, we are very excited about this opportunity! Thanks to Boston Free Radio’s programming department and to PMRP’s own Chris Dekalb for making this happen!

PMRP presents the video of our live show from the convention Arisia 2011 – Doctor Who and the Starship of Madness, written and directed by the same author as The Mask of Inanna:

Arisia 2011-Dr. Who: The Starship of Madness from sydweinstein on Vimeo.

UPDATE – This show will be performed again at the Long Island Doctor Who Convention on Saturday, November 9th, at 9:30PM EST.
Details here.

PMRP on the guest list.
 

Episode 5 was delayed slightly due to this live show we put on at Arisia 2011:

Written, directed and special-effected by lil old Whovian me (Alicia E. Goranson), with  awesome audio programming and soundtrack by Neil Marsh, this was our blurb:

Suffering Shoggoths! The Roaring Twenties have just begun! Flappers! Gin joints! Deep Ones? The Doctor joins forces with H.P. Lovecraft to investigate attacks in Boston by monstrous entities, and the eccentric Professor Whiteman who appears to be behind it all! What is the secret of the Professor’s amazing chair that can seemingly cure the insane? What is “Miskatonic University”? What will happen to the world when C’thulhu rises?

Presented by The Post-Meridian Radio Players, the cast included:
Andy Hicks as The Doctor (go check out his fantastic musical 2010!)
Alyssa Osiecki as Violet Brooks
Andy Lebrun as H. P. Lovecraft (yes, that’s our Leonard Allen!)
and Special Guest Star Ron Lacy as Nyar la’Hotep
with
Tom Champion, Mindy Klenoff, Michael McAfee and Brad Smith

The Boston Phoenix enjoyed it:

Friday night, I attended Dr. Who: The Starship of Madness, a live radio play by the Post-Meridian Radio Players about H.P. Lovecraft meeting Dr. Who. The rest of the characters were original — as far as I know — and the whole thing was hilarious. I’m a pretty casual Dr. Who fan, but I still got all of the jokes, and the Lovecraft interludes were a nice touch.

Also ToasterLabs enjoyed it as well:

…for those in the Boston area, The Post-Meridian radio players are putting on two performances of their radio play The Starship of Madness, March 25th and 26th. I saw this group at Arisia and they were incredible, very talented. I highly recommend you go. How can you beat seeing a live Doctor Who radio story!?

We had two additional performances of this show on Friday March 25th at 8:00pm and Saturday March 26th at 3:00pm.

Urban Promise Church, 52 Russell St, Somerville, MA 02144 (across from the Domino’s by Davis Square)