NAKED ANGELS Introduce 'Naked Radio' Weekly Podcast Series At The Cherry Pit

With a big bang before a live audience, New York's Naked Angels (Geoffrey Nauffts, Artistic Director; John Alexander, Managing Director; Andy Donald, Associate Artistic Director; Brittany O'Neill, Producer) is launching a new weekly podcast series, Naked Radio, at the Cherry Pit (155 Bank Street at the Cherry Lane Theatre).

On October 15th, 16th and 17th -just in time for Halloween - the three-evening premiere event will feature original frightening, bone-chilling radio plays - ghosts will scare, zombies will attack, and blood will flow - written especially for this recording by the Naked Angels' newly-formed Naked Radio Writers' Room with all the gory details supported by live Foley artists!

Naked Radio is Naked Angels' new development initiative and season-long production, designed to offer theater artists the opportunity to work in an alternate creative medium, collaborate in writing teams, and perform regularly in a professional radio studio. For Naked Angels, it's a unique opportunity to not only expose captive theatergoers to new media programming, but also a chance to reach a wider metropolitan audience beyond the stage. Content for the initiative is created by the Naked Radio Writers' Room, a weekly writers' group that the artistic staff selects annually from a competitive pool of the city's hottest writers, comedians, musicians and performers. Blending the styles of radio's golden age and today's pop culture, the Naked Radio Writers' Room generates a medley of original audio plays, comic sketches, intriguing real-life interviews with celebrity guests and live musical performances over the course of a given month and records the new material episodically. Beginning this winter, Naked Angels will distribute the radio programs weekly as downloadable podcasts or through online streaming available every other Thursday (subject to change) at http://www.nakedangels.com/development-programs/naked-radio/.

Tickets for Naked Radio premiere Halloween season events are $25 and are available through TheaterMania (http://www.theatermania.com/new-york/shows/naked-radio-oh-the-horror_159542/). Performances begin at 8:00 p.m.

As previously announced: to kick of their 2009 - 2010 season, Naked Angels invite artists and theatergoers to their Naked Incubator Series, which includes Tuesdays@9 (every Tuesday, starting September 22), 1st Mondays (every 1st Monday of each month, starting September 14th), and Angels in Progress (October 22-24, 8 pm at the Cherry Pit).

Naked Angels' season will continue for two energizing weeks this winter in late January 2010 with the Naked Footprints: An Issues Project at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre (416 West 42nd Street). Embodying the company's highest artistic aspiration - a community-based theater that is social, diverse, and dialectic - the Issues Project is a two-week event that challenges the disparate talents of the Naked Angels' membership, rallying writers, directors, actors, musicians, and filmmakers to speak out against a pressing social or political concern. For over 20 years the company has taken on controversial issues from gun control to the Iraq war, faith to human rights, in what very well might be the signature work of Naked Angels. Naked Footprints: An Issues Project will be curated evenings of short plays, videos, first-person storytellers, music and political discussion all addressing one of our most urgent topics today: Sustainability. Whether triggering fiery debate about our environment or troubleshooting how to rescue our depressed economy, it's clear that leading a more sustainable life demands we conduct our businesses, culture, and politics differently to secure a healthy future. And sustainability also relates to the individual. How does one sustain a relationship? Your moral code? A family? These are just some of the ideas and questions the Naked Angels hope to raise and tackle in their upcoming Issues Project.

Following the success of this summer's Next Fall (which opens on Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theatre in March 2010), Naked Angels will produce the world premiere of another bold new work in spring of 2010 at the Peter Jay Sharp Theatre. Details of this new production are forthcoming.

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