New Media Seminars

Jan 16, 2012 Comments Off by admin

MediaRites Productions presents two new audio seminars to launch you into the world of professional audio.
Study with Peabody-winning producer Dmae Roberts and engineer Clark Salisbury who have collaborated since 2002 on award-winning feature stories and documentaries.  These seminars are limited to six participants, intensive training at an affordable cost. We’re offering classes monthly that will [...]

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Survivors of the Sex Trade & Tripping Point

Jan 20, 2012 1 Comment by Dmae Roberts

Tues. Jan.24th at 11am on KBOO 90.7 FM & Sat. Jan.28th at 11am on KZME 107.1 FM Dmae Roberts presents a ‘Making Change’ feature story  of the women behind Stories: From Survivors of the Sex Trade, a performance produced by Lunacy Stageworks. And in the second part of the show, we’ll hear about The [...]

 
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Playwrights Susan Mach and Claire Willett

Jan 12, 2012 1 Comment by Dmae Roberts

Dmae Roberts talks with playwrights  Susan Mach and  Claire Willett. Oregon Book Award-winner Susan Mach’s A Noble Failure is the winner of CoHo Productions’ NEWxNW Playwrighting Competition. Artist’s Reperatory Theater presents a staged reading of Willett’s Dear Galileo, both as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. Hear this frank discussion of what it [...]

 
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Big Plastic Heroes

Jan 05, 2012 1 Comment by Dmae Roberts

Dmae Roberts  talks with Portland comedian, musician and Fertile Ground/Second City alum auGi and award-winning PBS writer Slash Coleman about Big Plastic Heroes– Warning: Trying to be Your Idol is Dangerous.
Hear some great stories from their monologues and auGi promises to sing live! The production is being presented as part of the Fertile Ground Festival of [...]

 
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Playwrights Susan Mach and Claire Willett

Jan 12, 2012 No Comments

This week on Stage & Studio, join Dmae Roberts as she talks with recipient of the 2011 Oregon Book Award, Susan Mach, and 2011’s Oregon Literary Fellow, Claire Willett. Susan Mach’s A Noble Failure, the winner of NEWxNW Playwrighting Competition, will be presented as a staged reading at CoHo Theater. Artist’s Reperatory Theater will present a staged reading [...]

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Burden of Family

Dec 28, 2011 No Comments

© Dmae Roberts 2011
Thanksgiving meal with my brother went well till my husband and I noticed the duct tape wrapped around Jack’s fingers.
“What’s that?” I asked.
“I cut myself,” he replied.
I asked “how?” and there was a long pause, a pause that’s been indicative of the thing we don’t talk about if we can avoid it: [...]

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Ursula K. Le Guin “Out Here”

Oct 29, 2010 2 Comments

Producer Dmae Roberts presents an encore broadcast of her documentary profile of legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin. The author of 40 plus books, Le Guin is a much gifted and prolific writer much loved by fans around the world. And in this half hour Oregon Treasures special on December 7th at 11am on KBOO 90.7 FM, [...]

 
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Artland: A Pushing Boundaries Special

Dec 09, 2011 No Comments

Join Producer Dmae Roberts as she embarks on a one-hour exploration called Artland: A Pushing Boundaries Special. This year-long investigation of innovative arts explores artists and arts groups that push personal, artistic, cultural and physical boundaries.
This special one-hour long journey includes music by 3 Leg Torso, David Ornette Cherry, Todd Tawd & Moira Smiley & Voco.

 
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The Mystery of Opal Whiteley

Dec 23, 2011 No Comments

Dmae Roberts opens up the audio vault with Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley. This half-hour doucumentary was  first produced in 1988 with playwright Dorothy Velasco and tells the story of a young woman from Cottage Grove, Oregon who became the center of an international controversy when critics declared her diary a hoax.

 
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Make A 2012 Donation!

Nov 23, 2011 2 Comments

Dear Friends,
Help support a year-long project on Stage & Studio. I’m seeking funds for our new year-long series “Making Change.”
This series of feature stories and documentary specials is about the creative people who make social, environmental and cultural change happen through artistic projects.  Oregon artists, writers, performers, nonprofit and community groups who want to improve [...]

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