Open-Door Playhouse presents the audio play Insomnia starring Allan
Wasserman as Tom and David Purdham as Sean; written by Burl N. Corbet, and directed by Dennis Gerten.

Burl N. Corbett (Writer) was born in Reading, Pennsylvania. He learned how to plaster stucco and lay stone before he began to publish both fiction and nonfiction in nationally distributed magazines and literary quarterlies.

With no financial means to hire a decent lawyer, he went to prison, where he won seven PEN Prison Writing Awards (two first, four honorable mentions, and one second) with the first and only prize of $500 from Eaton Literary Agency for 2007 short fiction contest.  He wrote a children/young adult book, Coon Tales; a novel of the 1967 “Summer of Love”, Dreaming of Oxen; and a magic realism novel, A Redneck Ragnorak, and many short stories and memoirs.  His first novel, A Haven from Violence, and Coon Tales are available at Xlibris and Amazon.

Dennis Gersten (Director) is co-artistic director of Theatre Unlimited in the Noho Arts District in L.A. He is a founding member of the Michael Chekhov Studio in L.A., and Stagewrights, Inc. in NYC, as well as a teaching artist with Inside Out Community Arts/P.S.Arts. He has directed and performed in many original and classic works, garnering multiple awards.

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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