Directed by Robert Egan
Robert Egan was a member of Los Angeles' Mark Taper Forum's artistic staff
for 19 seasons and was Founding/Producing Director of the New Work Festival.
Directing credits include: Taper: Arcadia, Aristocrats, Closer, Dealer's
Choice, Death and the Maiden, Hedda Gabler (at the Doolittle), Made in
Bangkok; Measure for Measure, The Poison Tree, Richard II, Sansei, Skylight,
Ten Unknowns and Widows. Taper, Too: Aunt Dan and Lemon, The Dream Coast
and Weights. Playwrights Horizons: Chinese Friends. Seattle Repertory
Theatre: Savages, Translations, The Ballad of Soapy Smith, Buying Time,
Salvation Now, The Grass Widow, Between East and West. Actors' Gang: The
Guys. U.S. Tour: Norman Lear's Declare Yourself Poets. NYSF: The Ballad
of Soapy Smith. LA Theatre Center: The Film Society. Naked Angels L.A.:
Coq Au Vin. ACT Seattle: Night and Day. Dorothy Oxford Playhouse: St.
Joan and Idomineo. Oxford University Drama Society: They Shoot Horses
Don't They (direction and adaptation).
He is Artistic Director of the Ojai Playwrights Conference.
Music composed, arranged and performed by Karl Lundeberg
Composer Karl Lundeberg is a CBS/Sony recording artist who has recorded
four albums with his jazz/world music group Full Circle. Karl's works
have been performed at music festivals throughout the world.
Theatre and ballet music includes scores for San Francisco's ACT (A Doll's
House); the Geffen Playhouse, Los Angeles (The Underpants); American Repertory
Theatre; BAM; Seattle Rep; Center Stage; Orange County's South Coast Rep;
Odyssey Theatre, Los Angeles; Arizona Theatre Company; Pan Asian Repertory
Theatre, New York; and L. A.'s Mark Taper Forum (Death and the Maiden,
Bandido!, Hysteria, Skylight, Enigma Variations, The Poison Tree, Closer,
Molière Comedies and The School for Scandal).
He is "composer in residence" at the Mark Taper Forum, and served as musical director for the Shakespeare repertory and Romeo and Juliet directed by Sir Peter Hall at the Ahmanson Theatre.
Narrator: Daniel Riordan
Audio Producer: Bob Carlson
Bob Carlson has been production director of KCRW since 1991, overseeing all studio operations and audio engineering. In addition to producing music and interview programs for radio broadcast, he has worked on many of the dramatic productions KCRW has produced over the past 15 years. Most notably, he was the radio producer on 2 epic productions of novels written by mystery author Ross Macdonald, "Sleeping Beauty," and "The Zebra Striped Hearse." Both were unabridged dramatizations performed by a large cast and featured an original musical score and multi layered sound design. The Ross Macdonald productions each won awards from the Audio Publishers Association.
In addition, Bob has been profiled in Mix magazine, the audio engineer's trade publication, and in 2003 was awarded for best "use of sound" by the Los Angeles Press Club.
Narration and Web Notes: Tom Nolan
Tom Nolan, who reviews crime fiction regularly for the Wall Street Journal, is the author of "Ross Macdonald: A Biography" (Scribner, 1999), which was nominated for the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award, and which won the Macavity Award and (in trade paperback, "Poisoned Pen Press," 2001) the Glyph Award. He is the editor of "The Couple Next Door: Collected Short Mysteries by Margaret Millar."
Nolan has been a professional writer since his teens, when he first wrote for West, the original Sunday magazine of the Los Angeles Times. His work has been printed in dozens of publications, including Playboy, The New York Times Book Review, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, the Village Voice, Rolling Stone, and the Oxford American. For several years he was a contributing editor at Los Angeles Magazine, where he created and wrote the 'Mister Los Angeles' column.
Recording Engineers/Editing:
Bob Carlson, Ray Guarna
Literary Consultants:
Sheldon McArthur, Tom Nolan
Casting:
Dickson Arbusto Casting
Executive Producer:
Jacqueline Des Lauriers
Graphic Design:
Abe Rivera
Cover Art:
Edmund Parker
Special Thanks:
Ruth Seymour
Jessica Kaye
Sarah Spitz
Gregg Lewis
The Mystery Bookstore
The Mystery Bookstore, located in Westwood Village within a football-pass of the UCLA campus, has fostered long-lasting relationships with such notable writers as Ian Rankin, Ken Bruen, Michael Connelly, John Connolly, Donald Westlake, Thomas Perry, James Lee Burke, George Pelecanos, and Ray Bradbury. Founded as The Mysterious Bookshop West in 1988, then morphing to become The Mystery Bookstore in 2000, it is the bookstore of choice for Los Angeles-based mystery writers and members of the Hollywood entertainment community, including studio executives and screenwriters. Or as director/producer Louis J. Horvitz said, "The Mystery Book Store is an institution... a meeting place for some of the finest minds, artists and talents around." To quote director John Frankenheimer, "...The Mystery Bookstore, [is] where knowledgeable, intelligent men and women can advise you, help you and provide wonderful service to those who are addicted to the thriller genre."
Partial support provided by the National Endowment for the Arts
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