Catalogue of Ships

ABOUT THE SHOW

Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, always offbeat and refreshing in this quirky, thought provoking weekly podcast. Stories told by David Terry, remixed and scored by composer/sound designer Michael Kraskin, and listened to by you.

Catalogue of Ships originated as a live performance in the American Living Room Festival at HERE in New York City in the summer of 2001.

DAVID TERRY is a scholar/artist currently working toward a PhD in Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He holds an M.A. from Louisiana State University and a B.S. from Northwestern University. Research interests include the performance of personal narrative, oral history, performance ethnography, genre theory and the process of adaptation, the intersections of scholarly and creative writing. He has worked extensively, if not lucratively, as both a performer and director in New York, Chicago, Austin, New Orleans/Baton Rouge.

MICHAEL KRASKIN graduated from Northwestern in 2000 with a BS in Performance Studies, and again in 2005 with a MM in Music Technology. He has been working professionally as a theatre sound designer and composer since 1999 all over the country. His work includes Orpheus Descending and The Hairy Ape (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination) at the American Theatre Company, The Chosen, Orange Flower Water, and Lesson Before Dying at the Steppenwolf Theatre, After Ashley, the Clean House, The Faculty Room and Lenny and Lou with the Woolly Mammoth Theatre, The Marriage of Figaro with Target Margin Theatre, Three Seconds in the Key with Deb Margolin at PS 122, and many others. He helped create Room Tone with Elevator Repair Service in New York which toured the U.S. to venues such as the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis. His one person show "Superhero! the operetta: a non-fiction piece," was selected as one of the Best Of the 2002 American Living Room Festival at HERE in New York.