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CYGNET RADIO HOUREnd-of-Season Announcement: Feel every word!Produced by Cygnet Production for your listening pleasure. All episodes are free to listen and share. Thank you from all of us to all of you! Host & Director: Louanne Moldovan 2022-01-2701 min
CYGNET RADIO HOURLouanne Moldovan sits with Maggie Fox & Sue Ryding Listen in as our director Louanne Moldovan connects with the delightful duo Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding of LipService.. described by The Guardian as "the Laurel and Hardy of literary deconstruction.” 2021-10-2933 min
CYGNET RADIO HOURCONVERSATION: Director Moldovan and Professor Sonia Sabnis chat about the Wild Party.Listen in as Artistic Director Louanne Moldovan and Sonia Sabnis, Associate Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities at Reed College, discuss the power and poetry of language and rhyme in The Wild Party.2021-09-0133 min
CYGNET RADIO HOURCONVERSATION: Gemma Whelan speaks about, Faith HealerDirector Louanne Moldovan and Gemma Whelan, artistic director of Corrib Theatre in Portland, Oregon, discuss the power and potency of the language in Faith Healer.2021-06-2626 min
CYGNET RADIO HOURCONVERSATION: DR. JAY DICKSON REFLECTS ON XINGUOur Companion Conversation is with director Louanne Moldovan and Dr. Jay Dickson, Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, discussing Xingu’s relevance today. © 2021 Cygnet Productions2021-04-2731 min
CYGNET RADIO HOURCONVERSATION: SR. RABBI CAHANA REFLECTS ON ADDRESS UNKNOWNProducer/Director Louanne Moldovan and Senior Rabbi Michael Z. Cahana of Congregation Beth Israel in Portland, Oregon, will discuss why and how Address Unknown is relevant today, for Jews and for people of all faiths (or none).2021-02-2828 min
The Actor's Nightmare!Ep 18 | Never Work with Animals or ChildrenThe marvelous Vana O'Brien breaks the Golden Rule and wishes her biggest problem was getting upstaged! But even claws, sharp knives, blood, and a near death experience don't rattle this veteran actress who manages to take it all in stride.2020-05-2727 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep17 | Protest This!If you only listen to one The Actor's Nightmare Podcast this is it!! While appearing in Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman, Portland Actor James Dixon is interrupted mid-performance by an impassioned cast member who shuts the show down with a staged protest that renounces the play’s excessively racist language and themes. The audio recorded by the protestors themselves is played in its entirety.2020-05-2040 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 16 | Who's Afraid of Stanley Kowalski?The lovely and surprisingly candid Kathleen Worley discusses her one woman show about Virginia Wolfe, her time at ACT, and a production of A Streetcar Named Desire where Stanley wasn't quite sure what to do once he got there...2020-05-1314 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 15 | Getting Naked with Patti LuponeMarilyn Stacey gets naked on stage in a production of The Robber Bridegroom. But when it's time to put it all back on and make her next entrance...well, let's just say someone got a little bit more than they bargained for. 2020-05-0621 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 14 | Mean ElephantLions, Tigers and Democrats, Oh My! Actress Elizabeth Huffman started her show business career in the circus - and nearly ended it there when a runaway elephant tries to take out a circus tent full of liberals. No shortage of irony in this episode - or laughs!2020-04-2930 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 13 | Nazi’s, Nuns and NightgownsLouanne is honored to have Portland’s Pulitzer Prize nominated columnist Margie Boule on the show to discuss her life as a writer and actress and, of course, the stories just don’t stop!2020-04-2220 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 12 | Putting the Meth in MethodAndrea grew up in the theatre so she thought she had seen everything. But that was until she found herself on stage with someone who had a very different idea of what the "meth" in method acting really meant. 2020-04-1521 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 11 | Going Up!In the theatre, there is dropping a line, there is forgetting your lines, and then there is GOING UP! Veteran actor Gavin Hoffman demonstrates the latter in excruciating detail.2020-04-0813 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 10 | Secret Santa and 'Fiddler' Pops a Boner!Veteran Actress Sharonlee McLean recounts the best and BIGGEST moments of her life in the theatre. 2020-03-2521 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 9 | The Fourth WallSeason 2 gets off with a bang when Louanne has on veteran actor David Meyers who regales her with multiple nightmares that include blood, drugs, and an unintended fourth wall break that propels him on a long slide into the audience abyss.2020-03-1117 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 8 | Road Trip!For the first season closer, The Actor's Nightmare takes a road trip to LA to interview veteran theatre actors Dan Lauria, Shuler Hensley, and Patty McCormack. You don't want to miss this one! And thanks to our listeners for making our first season a dream!!2020-03-0429 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 7 | Jaws!While traveling around the world with Artists Repertory Theatre, Duffy Epstein knows he’s living every actor’s dream. But when he returns home to perform in David Mamet’s Oleanna, the nightmare begins.2020-02-2615 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 6 | Ready...Fire...Aim!“Ready...Fire...Aim!” No, it’s not a typo, it’s a nightmare for actor Danny Bruno when a prop gun goes all kinds of wrong, causing a panic blackout he'll never forget...or remember...or something like that...2020-02-1913 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 5 | Lost in Translation!Portland based actress Kristen Brown joins a Vietnamese and American cast of Midsummer Night’s Dream and must speak Vietnamese. After months of muffled giggling from the cast and audience, Kristen finally discovers what she has been saying all along…and it’s worse than you think!2020-02-1213 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 4 | The Moan!In this episode Luisa Sermol, beloved Portland actor now treading Bay area boards, tells the mortifying tale of what goes wrong when she takes Edward Albee's stage directions a little too literally. She follows it up with a story that asks: whose blood is that, anyway?2020-02-0512 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 3 | Stay Dead!You're dead. On stage. For 13 minutes. But you're professional actor, like our guest Scott Coopwood, so you’ve dialed in the Zen of Dead. Then one night you receive a visit from an unexpected guest. A true nightmare!! Not for the squeamish...unless, of course, you are into that kind of thing.2020-01-2909 minThe Actor's Nightmare!Ep 2 | Plumb out of JesusIn this week’s episode hilarious actor Tom Gough recounts the of Jesus taking to the air in a Bible Belt production of the Christ story - but it was definitely NOT the Resurrection! 2020-01-2211 min
The Actor's Nightmare!Trailer | The Actor's Nightmare with Louanne MoldovanHosted by veteran theatre actress and director Louanne Moldovan, The Actor’s Nightmare is a weekly podcast featuring real horror stories from the stage, told by the actors who actually lived through them. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes hard to believe, usually very funny, The Actor’s Nightmare transports listeners from the safety of their world to the edge of a live stage where everything that can go wrong…often does.2020-01-1401 min
The Actor's Nightmare!Ep 1 | The Chicken Costume and the CockatooThis week Louanne interviews Adam Klugman, son of the late, great actor Jack Klugman famous for his role as Juror #5 in Twelve Angry Men, as Oscar Madison in the classic television series The Odd Couple, and as Quincy M.E. In this episode, Adam recalls working with his father in the play Tribute and how a harmless chicken costume became his father's worst nightmare. 2020-01-1413 min
Arabology Interviews by Dr. Ramzi SaltiInterview with Nadia Ahmad, Co-Host of Kalam Nawaem كلام نواعمRecorded on July 21, 2015
Interview, in English, with Nadia Ahmad who co-hosts the TV show 'Kalam Nawaem" (the Arabic version of 'The View').
Nadia is an acclaimed Arab Media personality and actress whose experience intersects theatre, film and television. She co-hosts “Kalam Nawaem”, the MBC Network’s premier talk show (based on ABC's “The View”) on its lead channel MBC.
Nadia has performed with great panache on stages in Kuwait, Beirut and New York, winning wide spread acclaim from theatre stalwarts and critics alike. As a producer and director, she continues to develop major musical theatre productions in association with the National C...2015-07-2025 minarabologyInterview with Nadia Ahmad, Co-Host of Kalam Nawaem كلام نواعمRecorded on July 21, 2015
Interview, in English, with Nadia Ahmad who co-hosts the TV show 'Kalam Nawaem" (the Arabic version of 'The View').
Nadia is an acclaimed Arab Media personality and actress whose experience intersects theatre, film and television. She co-hosts “Kalam Nawaem”, the MBC Network’s premier talk show (based on ABC's “The View”) on its lead channel MBC.
Nadia has performed with great panache on stages in Kuwait, Beirut and New York, winning wide spread acclaim from theatre stalwarts and critics alike. As a producer and director, she continues to develop major musical theatre productions in association with the National C...2015-07-2025 min
Arts Seen and HeardThe Making of A Musical, Tribute To PortlandRichard Moore ,who wrote the music and lyrics for Rain! The Musical,
discusses his journey as a musician and gives a behind-the-scenes look at
the making of this Fertile Ground Festival event in Portland.
Rain! The Musical is the story of a one-hit-wonder rocker who returns home
to Portland to woo back the lover he jilted to discover that it hasn't
rained in 274 days. The show, directed by Louanne Moldovan, continues Feb.
1-3.2013-01-2900 minArts Seen and HeardSurprise $30K Arts Grant for Shaking The TreeWhy did Portland-based Shaking The Tree attract a surprise $30,000 arts grant--a gift founder Samantha Van Der Merwe didn't request or apply for? How can other artists and arts organizations learn from her experience? Louanne Moldovan, Arts Seen and Heard's theater expert, talks to Van Der Merwe about the grant from the Robert Rauchenberg Foundation, which gave grants to 20 groundbreaking arts organizations nationwide.2013-01-0700 min