EYE IN THE SKY is coming...

We are excited to announce Chris Humphrey will be creating an original sound scape for the EYE IN THE SKY project, and we here at ATL are pleased as punch to have her...

Wait! Wait. What is the EYE IN THE SKY Project, you ask?

EYE IN THE SKY is a specially commissioned experimental epistolary radio drama.

ATL's Brad McEntire and Ruth Engel hand-selected writers from around the country. Each writer was to use the blurb below as a springboard for a 1-3 page contribution.

"For one week in the middle of the summer a giant eye appears in the sky over the city. At the end of seven days it disappears as suddenly as it had originally materialized..."

This contribution could take the form of... well... anything. Nearly anything. We are doing the project as a radio drama, so spoken or sound related texts were encouraged. We were open to scenes, monologues, letters, news broadcasts, newspaper clippings, diary entries, e-mail correspondence, lecture notes, etc.

These pieces will be put together to form a series of impressions and reactions to The Eye In The Sky.

A public reading by professional actors, supported by several rehearsals with an ATL director, will probably be held in Dallas when the whole thing is completed. The pieces will also be recorded and the resulting recording will be placed as a podcasts on this blog and the ATL website.

Some of the contributors include:

Chris Alonzo (Brooklyn)

Vicki Cheatwood (Dallas)
James Comtois (New York)

Erin Courtney (Brooklyn)

Andy Eninger (Chicago)

John Flores (Dallas)
Zach Gonzales (Austin)

Jeff Hernandez (Dallas)

Chris Humphrey (Austin)

Mark Rigney (Evansville, Indiana)

Greg Romero (Philadelphia)

Ben Walker Sampson (New York)

Crystal Skillman (New York)

Jeff Swearingen (Dallas)

Daniel Talbott (New York)

Jason Tremblay (Austin)

Ken Urban (New York)

Gary Winter (New York)