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Welcome to Open-Door Playhouse.  Support for Open-Door Playhouse comes from listeners like you, your donations help keep our plays on the Radio Stage. 

A quick announcement about the Patreon campaign we recently launched for the show!

If you’re a superfan and interested in supporting the show and getting bonus content - head over to patreon.com/opendoorplayhouse and join a community that is committed to launching new plays, new writers, and new talent. 

The team behind the mic is Assoc Producer Laree Griffith who manages our website and …all else, and Emily Owens, our publicist who notifies the Universe about our plays.  The plays are recorded at ES Audio Services in Glendale, CA and none of this would be possible with my patient, talented and supportive Sound Engineer Hall Cantrell.

Now playing…in Theatre 28 – Simple Lives.

Staring Goreti da Silva as Rosalie, Elaine Mello, as Kathleen and Anne Cooper as Anna, Monique Gonsalvas as Beth, Rosney Mauger as John Knight, and Noelle Evangelista as Nurse Patty.

Simple lives was written and directed by me, Bernadette Armstrong.

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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...