In 2020, Keen Company created Hear/Now: A Season of Audio Theater which updated the radio drama through a modern Off-Broadway lens. In 2021, as a bridge back to the theater, we were proud to produce two newly commissioned plays in an exciting live format.
Hear/Now: LIVE! reinvents the old-fashioned radio broadcast for the stage, featuring two world premiere plays by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Deb Margolin! Running December 2021, audiences delighted in watching an existential Western and a chaotic subway ride come to life through original music, live foley sound effects, and a thrilling cast of characters!
Presented here is a live recording of The Telegram by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen!
Augie is the consummate cowboy - she’s hardened, principled, and quick on the draw. But when the Kid tags along, expecting stagecoach races, shootouts, and barrels of whiskey, he finds himself entirely unprepared for the absurd realities of the Wild West. Sort of your traditional radio Western, sort of not.
Learn more about the show here.
CAST / CREDITS
THE TELEGRAM by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
THE KID: Cesar J. Rosado
AUGIE: Randy Danson
ANNOUNCER/NED: Moe Angelos
HEAR/NOW: LIVE!
Director: Jonathan Silverstein
Foley Design and Performance: Nick Abeel
Composer and Pianist: Salomon Lerner
General Manager: Reed Ridgley
Production Stage Manager: Alex Montoya
Assistant Stage Manager: Avery Trunko
Line Producer: Henry Lombino
Production Coordinator: Samantha Robbins
Audio Supervision: Jorge Olivo
Sound Engineer: Garrett Schultz
Assistant Director: Mimi Warnick
House Manager and COVID Safety Officer: Cam Silva
Ushers: Tony Marzani and Carlos Osorio Sordelli
ASL Interpretation: Inclusive Communication Services
COVID Testing Specialists: Holly Mindel, The 1 Stop MD
Production Photographer: Carol Rosegg
Casting Consultants: JZ Casting: Geoff Josselson and Katja Zarolinski
Press Representatives: David Gersten & Associates: David J. Gersten and Daniel DeMello
Accountants: Kudisch, Oster & Company, LLC
Keen Company Artistic Director: Jonathan Silverstein
The Hear/Now Audio Consultant: Garrett Schultz
The Hear/Now Theme Composer: Billy Recce
Transcriptions by Inclusive Communication Services, Inc.
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