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Happy International Podcast Day

Apparently, September 30 is now International Podcast Day — because, Lord knows there’s no podcast inundation every other day of the year!

I hosted my first podcast show before it was fashionable or (as it is now) ubiquitous. Between 2006 and 2009 I hosted the Indie Theatre Now podcast for Martin Denton and nytheatre.com, where I interviewed over 250 theatre artists. Sadly, it’s all offline now, not just the recordings but even a list of who we had on the show, and my head is a sieve so I don’t remember who-all were guests, beyond some folks who ended up becoming permanent friends and colleagues. (One of them married me and my wife!) Anyway, everyone, harrass Martin! The world needs to know! It’s already history! Important history!

At all events, I’m creeping and crawling towards doing my own show in future. Here are a couple of raw dry-runs I created for my Patreon followers (sans soundtrack or SFX), as teasers for what’s to come:

April is the Foolish Month (a telling of the history of silent comedy based around April dates, created for April Fool’s Day)

History of the Great American Medicine Show

Please join my Patreon to help fuel (and experience) the more elaborate productions to follow!

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Writer and performer Trav S.D. (www.travsd.com) is best known for his books "No Applause, Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous" (2005) and "Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube" (2013). He has written for the NY Times, the Village Voice, American Theatre, Time Out NY, Reason, the Villager and numerous other publications. Trav has been in the vanguard of New York’s vaudeville and burlesque scenes since 1995 when he launched his company Mountebanks, presenting hundreds of acts ranging from Todd Robbins to Dirty Martini to Tammy Faye Starlite to the Flying Karamazov Brothers. He has directed his own plays, revues and solo pieces at such venues as Joe’s Pub, La Mama, HERE, Dixon Place, Theater for the New City, the Ohio Theatre, the Brick, and 6 separate shows in the NY International Fringe Festival. In 2014 he produced and directed the smash-hit "I’ll Say She Is", the first ever revival of the Marx Brothers hit 1924 Broadway show in the NY International Fringe Festival.