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Today we bring you our first presentation in our new collaboration series we’ve titled - Across The Pond Theatre, the joining of Open Door Playhouse Theatre, based in Pasadena, California, and Our Kid and Me Productions, based in Oxfordshire, UK. For our first joint effort, we are pleased to present a dramatization of Oscar Wilde's famous supernatural short story, "The Canterville Ghost".

In order of Appearance:

Gareth Thomas as Lord Canterville 

Amir Abdullah as Hiram Otis 

Elaine Mello as  Elizabeth Otis 

McKenna Koledo as Virginia Otis 

Franco Machado Washington Otis 

Gary Reed and Matthew Scott Montgomery as Roland    

Jennie Cosgrave  as Mrs. Umney 

John Hunter as the GHOST, Sir Simon de Canterville

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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.

There’s no paywall at the Open-Door Playhouse site, so you could listen to everything for free. Open-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 non-profit organization, and if you would like to support performances of works by new and emerging playwrights, your donation will be gratefully accepted. Your tax-deductible donations help keep our plays on the Podcast Stage. We strive to bring our listeners thoughtful and surprising one-act plays and ten-minute shorts that showcase insightful and new perspectives of the world we share with others. To listen or to donate (or both), go to https://opend...