Open-Door Playhouse

THEATER 2: Backseat Driver

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October 07, 2020 6:00am

11m

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ABOUT
So many things can happen when one gets into the wrong Uber on a rainy night.

DIRECTOR
Dennis Gersten

WRITER
Scott Mullen is a playwright and screenwriter, a two-time winner of Amazon Studios' screenwriting contest, whose thrillers THE SUMMONING and IN BROAD DAYLIGHT aired on TV One.  His short plays have been produced hundreds of times around the world.  An evening of his comic plays, A NIGHT OF S.M., had a two-week run in Hollywood.

ACTORS
Elaine Mello
is excited to be participating in Open-Door Podcast. Elaine has been working with Bernadette on many projects and continues to do so because of her creative talents and willingness to seek innovative and thought-provoking material. Grateful to be part of such an accepting movement of the arts.

Goreti da Silva has had the pleasure of working on several of Bernadette Armstrong’s plays: Dark Stage, Unheard Voices, Simple Lives, and Joan. Goreti has won The Michael Grossman Most Inspirational Award for her work in the Desert, and the Valley Theatre Award for her work in “Park Plays: Portland”.

SOUND PRODUCTION
Mercury Sound Studios Recorded and Mixed by Paul Ratajczak and Hall Cantrell

SOUND EFFECTS
Ryan Marsh

SOUND EDITOR
Hall Cantrell

MUSIC
Audio Jungle








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Founded by playwright and filmmaker Bernadette Armstrong, Open-Door Playhouse is a Theater Podcast- like the radio dramas of the 1940s and 1950s. The Playhouse launched on September 15, 2020. At the time, Open-Door Playhouse provided Playwrights, Actors and Directors a creative outlet during the shutdown. Since its inception. Open-Door Playhouse has presented Short and One-Act plays from Playwrights across the country and internationally. In 2021 Open-Door Playhouse received a Communicator Award for Content for the Play Custody and in 2023 the play What’s Prison Like was nominated for a Webby Award in the Crime & Justice Category.

Plays are produced by Bernadette Armstrong, Sound Engineer is David Peters, sound effects are provided by Audio Jungle, and music from Karaoke Version. All plays are recorded at The Oak House Studio in Altadena, CA.

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