Kip Knott is the author of four collections of poetry, the most recent being Afraid of Heaven. His first one-act play, The Irish-Hunky Shuffle, was produced in 2005 by the Irish Theatre Project in Columbus, Ohio.
Cast
Wife - Christy Donahue
Husband 1 - Frank J. Schiavone
Husband 2 - Robert Rhodes

ABOUT RINGTONES:

Ringtones was inspired by a conversation with my son, who was trying to brainstorm ideas for a one-act play to be performed at his high school. My son had the nugget of an idea for a play about a man who loses his wedding ring at a bar while celebrating his anniversary with his wife, but he couldn’t think where to take the idea from there. Consequently, my son left that idea behind and went on to write a different play about a husband and wife who meet in Purgatory. The idea about the ring, however, stayed with me. I couldn’t stop thinking about the symbolic power that we ascribe to a wedding ring, and so I decided to push the idea of that power to an absurd level by making the power real rather than merely symbolic. As I began to draft what eventually became Ringtones, I wrote from the husband’s perspective, which just didn’t feel right. It was only when I turned the situation around and wrote from the wife’s perspective that everything began to click. As a result, the wife’s final gesture at the end of the play came very naturally. In the end, I feel that the play was something that I needed to write in order to express my frustration with the current social climate in America.

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger: Playwright and Actor Diana Burbano Reads her own Play "Linda"
About the play:
La Linda is from East L.A. She's shy, funny, and inquisitive—and obsessed with Linda Ronstadt, who can sell out a rock concert quicker than any dude, and Lynda Carter, a.k.a. Wonder Woman, who kicks ass in the name of truth, justice, and All-American girl power. The discovery that all three share not only a name but Mexican heritage cements the Lindas' place in her life as guardian angels. At a school talent show, La Linda puts on the Wonder Woman costume her abuelita made, roller skates onstage, and proceeds to fail gloriously as a rock star. But her twin heroines never desert her in this super badass story of finding your inner hero.
About Diana Burbano:
Diana Burbano, a Colombian immigrant, is an Equity actor, a playwright and a teaching artist at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA.
She has been a working actor since leaving the Professional Actors Conservatory in 1991. She originated the roles of Ama de Casa in the Spanish version of Menopause the Musical, Thumb in Imagine, and Holo-1 in the Labors of Hercules. She recently played Ana Guerrero in Jose Cruz Gonzales' Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy Dialogue/Dialogos project at South Coast Repertory.
TV includes The People vs OJ Simpson, Cold Case, Betas.
She played punk Praetorian guard Viv in the cult movie musical, The Isle of Lesbos
Written work include Fabulous Monsters, a Festival51 winner, about women in Punk Rock, Picture me Rollin’ (featured at the 35th annual William Inge Festival.), Silueta, (about the cuban artist Ana Mendieta), with Tom and Chris Shelton, and the TYA Shakespeare mash-up, Caliban’s Island (Published by YouthPLAYS). Libertadoras, Vamping and Linda were written for the 365 Women a Year project and have been performed around the world. Her short play Rounds Per Second is featured in Smith and Kraus’s 5-minute play anthology.

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger: IT’S A JUNGLE OUT THERE By Shirley King.
Read by Christy Donahue.

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger, Read by Christy Donahue:
While fighting cancer Amy is determined to rise to the challenge by writing poetry and coming up with a different take on her illness.


"Amy's story suddenly came to me and I wrote quickly, without feeling the need to edit. I've always loved poetry so I liked helping Amy compose her own poem that didn't quite rhyme. I'm always grateful when my characters become "real." This is exactly what happened with Amy. I could hear her voice as I wrote and I continue to think about her and admire her bravery." Shirley King

Christy Donahue ReadsToday's monologue, BREAKING UP IS HARD TO DO by Shirley King was inspired by Shirley's reluctance to donate her beloved books for the library book sale. She now reads "books" on her iPad but still feels guilty about the thought of abandoning her beloved home library.

It's a new monologue and Shirley thinks that it speaks to those who have one foot in the digital age and the other in a time when life was simpler -- or seemed that way.

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger. Script read by Christy Donahue.
An Adaption of SHE WANTED ME by Marj O'Neill-Butler

Hosted by Coni Koepfinger, Reading by Christy Donahue.
Today's play "Mom Really Did Know Best" by Shirley King, is a true story about how my Shirley's mother inspired her to become a social worker, a job she loved and held for more than 27 years. Our playwright admits, "It wasn't always easy but I knew it was what I was born to do."

In Today's show our host Coni Koepfinger talks about creativity and collaboration with her book, VIRTUOSO, a new collaboration with Robert Rhodes. How do we teach creativity? And why is so important now in the nascent stages of the 21st century? Starring Lani Cerveris Cataldi.

Coni Koepfinger Hosts. When a flight attendant starts flying high without a parachute it’s time to scramble. Cast: Chrisy Donahue, Robert Rhodes and Rachel Love

AirPlay Hosted by Coni Koepfinger As the Guardian continues to evolve we now find another character added. A therapist who works trying to help our Jo Jo deal with past traumas.

Our On Air Players Cast includes:
Mark Tierno and Susan Skosko

Susan Skosko: New Manhattan Theatre, Mystery's Most Wanted, USGLADIUS.com Manhattan Repertory Theatre, Cosmic Orchid, Air Play www.onairplayers.xyz

Mark Tierno was recently the patient Cheswick in “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” with Barebones Productions and Father Dowd in “Bless Me Father” at Manhattan Repertory Theater. He formerly played Hoffman in Barebones’ Holocaust drama “The Grey Zone,”