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Story
Incorporating fictional and non-fictional elements, this is the story of a stripper, a carpenter in drag, a house wife and their chain of interactions.
Produced for the 2010 TCF ShortDocs Challenge: Book Odds.
Producer
Andrew Parsons is originally from a small town outside of Scranton, PA. After graduating from college, he taught through Teach For America and was inspired by the complicated nature of the school system to document the issues of New York charter schools. Since then, he's independently produced lots of radio pieces and is behind the podcast Radio Waves. He's a New York City kindergarten teacher by trade but has recently decided to blindly jump into the world of professional radio.
Extra
Notes! Voices Heard:
- Jill (last name asked to not be used) - the stripper whose audio is from an authentic interview conducted by Andrew Parsons about her experiences in the profession.
- Andrew Pifko (actor) - the carpenter whose story was inspired by the incident that Jill relates but is fictionally documented in this radio piece
- Melissa Center (actress) - the house wife whose clothes are worn in the story and whose existence is entirely fictional
Book Odds invited anyone/everyone to produce a short audio work inspired by (and named after) song titles from The Books' record The Way Out, and including samples from their library of musical bits, strange phrases and sonic doodads. Read more about and listen to other Book Odds submissions.