It has been a short and crazy road, so far. I had been aching for a creative project that I could undergo, something that would be mine, something that needed ME to kick-start it. Halfway through September of this year, an idea came to me. Vermont Community Access Media (VCAM), our local public access nonprofit organization, is always looking for content to air. Its services, equipment, and studio are available to anyone in the Burlington, VT area willing to create television programs for it. I had done work with VCAM six years ago to adapt the Nightmare Vermont performance DVD to television, so I was somewhat familiar with the equipment and the process.
I had been a big fan of the Intergalactic Nemesis show since seeing it at the Flynn last year. My wife loves experiencing all the behind-the-scenes stuff from movies and television, like Foley work, which is featured in their performances. Well, why not do that, I thought. I can craft a straightforwardly sincere, old school version of that wonderfully fun thing we enjoyed. I just needed an idea for a series. My jumping-off point was The Shadow, a character whose radio program I had been enamored of since childhood. His pulp adventures partly inspired the superhero boom of the 1930s, particularly in the creation of a certain Caped Crusader named Batman. I decided I wanted a female lead, and there were few pulp heroines from that period, so I decided to create my own, based on the Shadow-Batman-Doc Savage-Superman model: Gracie Grant, The Gloved Fox.
I have ties that run deep in the Burlington acting community. I ran this idea by a few of my actor friends; the response was mind-shatteringly positive. I had no idea so many of my friends had such a deep love for old time time radio programs! A dozen or so leaped at the chance to be involved in such a project. And so, the BTV Radio Players were born. The staff of VCAM has been immensely supportive, as well, and all who I have spoken to have been pretty excited with this endeavor; it is a little beyond what they are used to seeing. In just one week, on December 28, we tape our first episode. I am very thrilled to be embarking on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy our finished project.
I had been a big fan of the Intergalactic Nemesis show since seeing it at the Flynn last year. My wife loves experiencing all the behind-the-scenes stuff from movies and television, like Foley work, which is featured in their performances. Well, why not do that, I thought. I can craft a straightforwardly sincere, old school version of that wonderfully fun thing we enjoyed. I just needed an idea for a series. My jumping-off point was The Shadow, a character whose radio program I had been enamored of since childhood. His pulp adventures partly inspired the superhero boom of the 1930s, particularly in the creation of a certain Caped Crusader named Batman. I decided I wanted a female lead, and there were few pulp heroines from that period, so I decided to create my own, based on the Shadow-Batman-Doc Savage-Superman model: Gracie Grant, The Gloved Fox.
I have ties that run deep in the Burlington acting community. I ran this idea by a few of my actor friends; the response was mind-shatteringly positive. I had no idea so many of my friends had such a deep love for old time time radio programs! A dozen or so leaped at the chance to be involved in such a project. And so, the BTV Radio Players were born. The staff of VCAM has been immensely supportive, as well, and all who I have spoken to have been pretty excited with this endeavor; it is a little beyond what they are used to seeing. In just one week, on December 28, we tape our first episode. I am very thrilled to be embarking on this adventure, and I hope you enjoy our finished project.