Cartwheels on the Sky features Elk poet, filmmaker, fiction writer and teacher Thomas Roberdeau.
Thomas Roberdeau is a filmmaker and writer living in Elk, and has been living on the the Mendocino coast on and off since the late 1970’s.
He was educated at the University of Texas at Austin. His work in film has been primarily seen on the History Channel and on PBS. His films and screenplays have won several prestigious awards.
He is a teacher who has taught in most Northcoast schools, in Santa Monica, with California Poets-in-the-Schools, and he has lectured on film at various universities. He currently teaches with San Francisco Art & Film, a private school in the Bay Area.
He has won several grants, including one in film from the National Endowment for the Arts and a teaching grant from the California Arts Council.
He has published a book with Sun & Moon Press in Los Angeles, and a variety of poems and stories with every literary journal on the Northcoast. Read some of Roberdeau’s writings at: https://hollywooddementia.com/author/thomas-roberdeau/
Originally aired on Saturday, April 2 at 88.3, on KGUA FM Gualala; https://kgua.org
