Jon Clinkenbeard and the Radio Players
Listen to the interview from Wednesday, July 14, 2010.
Jon Clinkenbeard and the Radio Players will be performing Doctor Cowboy on Wednesday, July 14, 2010
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Jon Clinkenbeard (Biff Nails, Announcer 2)
Over the past 5 years, Kafka Jon has slowly morphed into a professional writer, penning books, blogs, articles, short films, radio plays, and sketch shows, most notably for the famed Second City in Chicago. Jon presently has quite a bit to keep him busy; a new Maximum Decision!® book series coming out soon (the first of which is The Pirate Treasure of the Himalayas), a website of free short stories at http://jonclinkenbeard.com, and a secret involvement with a panel of doctors who will answer any question at http://www.facebook.com/askadoctor. He is exactly one-fourth of Happiness is a Choice, a mind-blowing experimental team of scientists, which performs Thursdays in July and August at the New Movement Theatre. Doctor Cowboy is not only a radio western, it’s also the name of Jon’s full-service production company. You can find more information and samples of work at http://doctorcowboyproductions.com. And finally, if you enjoy Doctor Cowboy’s radio adventures, you’ll love Jon and Jono’s upcoming Dracula trilogy, because it’s totally radical… to the EXTREME!
Jono Frank (Conroy, Narrator)
Despite being responsible for numerous projects over the past 10 years, Jono hasn’t a mind to list them all, or any for that matter. It’s rumored that he once created 1,000 different characters in a few hundred one-acts and shorts, then destroyed the works to encourage himself as a writer. It is undetermined whether this has worked, but sources state that at least 48 watered-down versions have been recreated lazily into a sketch-opera. When he’s not writing, he enjoys thinking about concepts that haven’t ever been done and despises water polo. Before getting into writing, Jono was a freelance Billboard Critic who frequently submitted articles for various magazines and newspapers across the country. After learning about how ghosts can possess video cameras, like in that movie Poltergeist, Jono funneled his energies into creating radio fiction. With a slew of inspiration, spanning over three decades (post-Depression Era), he set to work creating various themes and genres from Sci-Fi to Horror-Westerns to Dracula. He is also a huge fan of criticizing comic books.
Kacey Samiee (Claribelle)
Kacey graduated from UT in 2005 with a skip in her step, a song in her heart, and an automated lighting design and technology degree under her arm. Since then she has found out that her degree isn’t as useful as she would have hoped, but it has given her the ability to do some pretty cool name-dropping if given the opportunity. Luckily the song in her heart and the skip in her step have proven to be quite useful in her 7ish year ongoing membership to GGG. In total (as of 2010) she’s had a 10+ year improv career and has been in countless AWESOME Austin improv shows. She also spends copious amounts of time doing yoga. Seriously. She’s a fanatic. Other activities include photography and modeling, the ever continuing battle of learning to knit, sewing some pretty cool stuff, running, indulging her sweet tooth, running again because she indulged her sweet tooth, lusting after mini dresses, film acting and stage acting (which is really just going to ridiculous commercial auditions), and studying for the GRE. That last one has been really freakin’ hard…‘cause who wants to study?…especially when you have yoga to go to…and improv to do…and tiny dresses to buy. Sheesh! But seriously…she needs to study. She will. She promises. Right now….after this yoga class…
Michael Thomas (Doctor Cowboy)
Michael Thomas is a local improviser and costars in Dusk: Improvised Teen Erotica, based off of Twilight. He is a renaissance man.
Or something like that. I’m in NYC dude, I gotta run – I’m shirtless in Times Square.
Kareem Badr (Charlie, Announcer 1)
Kareem Badr is a founding member of the award-winning improv troupe Parallelogramophonograph and is one of the owners of The Hideout Theatre. He has performed and taught at improv festivals across the continent, and can be seen performing every Friday with PGraph at The Hideout Theatre. He will be representing the men in the upcoming Battle of the Sexes Improv Showdown at The Long Center on July 17th.
Jason Vines (Tex, Sheriff)
Jason is a member of Improv for Evil, and will appearing as FDR in the upcoming Zilker Summer Musical production of Annie. He is also appearing in The Andersons, an improvised 1950s sitcom, at The Highball every Sunday night in August.