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Open-Door Playhouse will present the audio play of Yes Twinkie, There is a Santa Claus, a play starring Chris Dorman as “Twinky” and Julia Sanford as “Noelle”; and written by Don Goodrum, and directed by Sophie Goldstein.

It’s time for the end of the year performance reviews at the North Pole, and the Head Elf of Personnel, Noelle Frost has saved the worst for last, Twinky, an Elf with a tragic past and a bad attitude who no longer believes in Santa Claus. Can Noelle help Twinky find his Christmas Spirit, or will it take a Christmas Miracle?

Playwright: Don Goodrum is a stage veteran of almost 50 years. He was born in Tennessee and raised in Mississippi. He got his first taste of the spotlight as “The King of the Calendar” in his second-grade play and after that, he moved on to the church play circuit and managed to turn a Best Actor win in a One Act Play Festival into a theatre scholarship for Mississippi College. After college, he wound up on the radio, a career choice that kept sharpening his comedic and writing skills for the next 25 years.  In 2006, he retired from radio and began teaching high school theatre, and started writing once again. He has seen productions of many of his plays throughout the US. He is now retired and lives close to his three grown daughters and their families in Florida.

Director: Sophie Goldstein is a Jewish Chicana from Los Angeles, California, who majored in Theatre Arts and Dance at Cal State Los Angeles, and received her MFA in Physical Theatre from the Accademia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. She has worked as a director/choregrapher for several theaters around LA. Learn more about her director and choreographer work profile by visiting her website.

Open-Door Playhouse is a podcast that supports new and emerging writers by producing plays in the style of living Radio Plays popular in the 1940s & 1950s. Open-Door Playhouse is a 501c3 non-profit organization that is supported by listeners like you through tax-deductible donations.

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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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