Joe Frank
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
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"Thanks in large part to the National Endowment for the Arts, public radio continued to air a smattering of audio drama until the mid-1980s. From 1986 to 2002, NPR's most consistent producer of radio drama was the idiosyncratic Joe Frank, working out of KCRW in Santa Monica."--Sholem Stein "I'm sitting at a dinner party attended by Pol Pot, Hitler, Stalin and Mao."--"Bad Karma" (2000) by Joe Frank |
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Joe Frank (August 19, 1938 – January 15, 2018) was a French-born American writer, teacher, and radio performer known best for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas he recorded often in collaboration with friends, actors, and family members.
Typical episodes include "Bad Karma" (2000) and "That Night" (1994).
Synopsis from "That Night":
- "Joe's uncle drowns while fishing a week after retiring, urban animal criminals, voyeur complains about a nude woman, sex with nuns in a limo, an elderly marching band and homecoming parade has been lost for 40 years and is being chased by homecoming queen's fiance, creating life-size maps, to Jesus: why is there so much suffering, we're on the edge of chaos, it's great to feel a part of nature monologue with traffic background, monologue on sleep (repeated in other programs)." [1]
See also
Blue Jam , Francis Ford Coppola , Radio drama , Benny Paret , Ira Glass , All Things Considered , After Hours (film) , Radio documentary , KCRW , WBAI , Third Coast International Audio Festival , Brother Theodore , Red Planet (film) , Julian Barratt , Joe Franklin , David Cross , Jack Kornfield , Ege Bamyası , Grace Zabriskie , Infernal Bridegroom Productions , Men in the Sun , Joseph Minion , Strange Cargo Hinterland , Debi Mae West , Jeff Crouse , Chel White , Larry Block , Brent Weinbach , Kristine McKenna , Dirt (1998 film) , Joseph Frank , Clement von Franckenstein
