Today, we take up a new topic: theater. A visual art if ever there was one. Are you a writer or want to be one? Do you have a one-act play you want produced? Lenore Skomal is the award-winning author of 20 books and, most recently, a playwright whose work has been staged Off Broadway. She created and directs the Broadway Bound Playwriting Festival, which is now accepting submissions. The website has submission guidelines. In our lively conversation, Lenore describes her journey from newspaper reporter to author to playwright to Broadway producer. One of her books, Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter, rescues from obscurity Ida Lewis, a 19th-century heroine who was as famous as Amelia Earhart was in her day. The story is in the process of being produced for the big screen. As you’ll hear, Lenore is witty, curious, enterprising, and engaging. And I for one learned a lot – namely, if I don’t know how to do something, I should just ask someone who’s done it! Quelle surprise. You’re going to love Lenore.
Speaking of love, I’d like to add that WESU has launched its fall pledge drive. If this is the kind of programming you love, why not show the station some love by donating to its fall pledge drive? There are way-cool gifts. Jus’ sayin.’
And now, Lenore Skomal.
Images from Lenore’s Off-Broadway play The Exes
Lenore has generously provided this recording of Bluff performed as a radio play. Enjoy!
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