Marcy Arlin's guest appearances

Marcy Arlin

Kaleidocast

Sam Schreiber

Carmen Maria Machado

Charlie Jane Anders

Jonathan Lethem

Mike Allen

Mimi Mondal

Maria Dahvana Headley

Tim Pratt

Rob Cameron

N. K. Jemisin

Theodora Goss

Max Gladstone

Richard Bowes

Sarah Pinsker

Carlos Hernandez

OwlTail

The Aliens Cloned Trent DarcellThe clone of a mid-level pop star recounts his newly rekindled musical career to his genetic forebear, who was abducted and cloned by extraterrestrials in a strange, but beautiful romp through the rock scene.The Author:ZigZag Claybourne wishes he’d grown up with the powers of either Gary Mitchell or Charlie X but without the Kirk confrontations. His work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Stupefying Stories, Vex Mosaic, FlashShot, The Reverie Journal, and a number of anthologies. His latest novel is The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan.  More at www.WriteonRighton.com.The Actor:Nick Dawson is an actor, singer, and acoustic guitar player based in NYC.   Nickdawson9@gmail.com--------Oldish Woman Leaves EarthA play: An "oldish woman" tells the story of the last days of humans on Earth before they are evicted and become intergalactic refugees.The Author:MARCY ARLIN’s spec fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, perihelionsf.com, Kaleidocast Season 1 &amp; 2, Diabolical Plots, Broad Universe Sampler, Man.In.Fest Journal of Experimental Theatre. She writes about international and American theatre, theatre for social change and immigrant artists at tcgcircle.org and is Editor of Czech Plays: 7 New Works. She has posts at Clarion: Writer’s Craft. In another life she is Artistic Director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants’ Theatre Project and has taught theatre at CUNY, Yale, Brown, University of Chicago, Pace. In another other life she was a Fulbrighter to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. Her new favorite job is creative theatre workshops and coaching sessions for speculative fiction writers (BSFW, Lunacon). Marcy volunteers for PAWSnyc.org. She’d like to have a new website (now it’s immigrantstheatre.org) but does have an underused Twitter account @marcyarlin. Marcy lives in Brooklyn with a ghost and two catsThe Actor:Kathryn Kates spent over 25 years in LA where she was a founder, acting member and producer of the award-winning Colony Theatre. She is probably best known for her recurring role on Seinfeld in the iconic episodes, "The Marble Rye" and “The Babka”. She currently recurs as Jason Bigg’s mother on Orange Is the New Black; also recurring in the Jennifer Lopez’ NBC hit Shades of Blue as Mrs Saperstein; and recurs as Judge Marlene Simons on Law &amp; Order: SVU. She has performed on Broadway and off broadway, most recently in Labyrinth’s NICE GIRL; at NYTheatre Workshop in Food and Fadwa; on Theatre Row in Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis; and starred along with Greg Mullavey and Gaby Hoffmann in The Last Sader.    kathrynjkates@aol.com

The Aliens Cloned Trent Darcell The clone of a mid-level pop star recounts his newly rekindled musical career to his genetic forebear, who was abducted and cloned by extraterrestrials in a strange, but beautiful romp through the rock scene. The Author: ZigZag Claybourne wishes he’d grown up with the powers of either Gary Mitchell or Charlie X but without the Kirk confrontations. His work has appeared in Apex Magazine, Strange Horizons, Stupefying Stories, Vex Mosaic, FlashShot, The Reverie Journal, and a number of anthologies. His latest novel is The Brothers Jetstream: Leviathan. More at <a href="http://www.WriteonRighton.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.WriteonRighton.com</a>. The Actor: Nick Dawson is an actor, singer, and acoustic guitar player based in NYC. Nickdawson9@gmail.com -------- Oldish Woman Leaves Earth A play: An "oldish woman" tells the story of the last days of humans on Earth before they are evicted and become intergalactic refugees. The Author: MARCY ARLIN’s spec fiction has appeared in Daily Science Fiction, <a href="http://perihelionsf.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">perihelionsf.com</a>, Kaleidocast Season 1 &amp; 2, Diabolical Plots, Broad Universe Sampler, Man.In.Fest Journal of Experimental Theatre. She writes about international and American theatre, theatre for social change and immigrant artists at <a href="http://tcgcircle.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tcgcircle.org</a> and is Editor of Czech Plays: 7 New Works. She has posts at Clarion: Writer’s Craft. In another life she is Artistic Director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants’ Theatre Project and has taught theatre at CUNY, Yale, Brown, University of Chicago, Pace. In another other life she was a Fulbrighter to the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Romania. Her new favorite job is creative theatre workshops and coaching sessions for speculative fiction writers (BSFW, Lunacon). Marcy volunteers for <a href="http://PAWSnyc.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PAWSnyc.org</a>. She’d like to have a new website (now it’s <a href="http://immigrantstheatre.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">immigrantstheatre.org</a>) but does have an underused Twitter account @marcyarlin. Marcy lives in Brooklyn with a ghost and two cats The Actor: Kathryn Kates spent over 25 years in LA where she was a founder, acting member and producer of the award-winning Colony Theatre. She is probably best known for her recurring role on Seinfeld in the iconic episodes, "The Marble Rye" and “The Babka”. She currently recurs as Jason Bigg’s mother on Orange Is the New Black; also recurring in the Jennifer Lopez’ NBC hit Shades of Blue as Mrs Saperstein; and recurs as Judge Marlene Simons on Law &amp; Order: SVU. She has performed on Broadway and off broadway, most recently in Labyrinth’s NICE GIRL; at NYTheatre Workshop in Food and Fadwa; on Theatre Row in Herman Kline's Midlife Crisis; and starred along with Greg Mullavey and Gaby Hoffmann in The Last Sader. kathrynjkates@aol.com

S2: Ep3 The Aliens Cloned Trent Darcell, Zigzag Claybourne & Oldish Woman Leaves Earth,  Marcy Arlin

Marcy Arlin teaches Theater for Social Change at Pace University and is artistic director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre project and is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. She is a long-time member of BSFW, Theater Without Borders, Broad Universe, and her work has been published in Daily Science Fiction, Perihelionsf.com, Broad Universe Sampler, and Man.In.Fest theater journal. Marcy has several more short stories out there and is working on a sci-fi murder mystery.Author Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over eighty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, a Lambda Award, a story South Million Writers Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. His most recent novel, Dust Devil On a Quiet Street, was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists.A new edition of his 2005 novel, From The Files of the Time Rangers, a Nebula finalist, will appear later this year from Lethe Press.Last year, his 9/11 story, "There’s A Hole In The City," got a very nice review in The New Yorker.Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Fantasy Magazine's Queers Destroy Fantasy special issue, Interfictions, Nightmare, Grendel Song, and the anthologies The Doll Collection and Black Feathers.He is currently writing stories that will be chapters in a novel about life as a gay kid in 1950’s Boston.Bradley Robert Parks lives, writes, and performs in and around Brooklyn, NY, where he founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (BSFWriters.com). His passion for writing blossomed while growing up in a family of genre readers. While he's been pursuing writing for a while, the crazy energy of NYC and BSFW have given him the focus and motivation to finally get published. His stories have appeared on BuzzyMag.com and on the Kaleidocast podcast. He also sings and narrates stories when time permits. Along with these achievements, he's obtained one husband, Michael, and Insanity Anne Magoo (best cat ever). Keep up with his exploits on Facebook or at BradleyRobertParks.com.

Marcy Arlin teaches Theater for Social Change at Pace University and is artistic director of the OBIE-winning Immigrants' Theatre project and is a Fulbright scholar to Romania and the Czech Republic. She is a long-time member of BSFW, Theater Without Borders, Broad Universe, and her work has been published in Daily Science Fiction, <a href="http://Perihelionsf.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Perihelionsf.com</a>, Broad Universe Sampler, and Man.In.Fest theater journal. Marcy has several more short stories out there and is working on a sci-fi murder mystery. Author Richard Bowes has published six novels, four story collections and over eighty short stories. He has won two World Fantasy Awards, a Lambda Award, a story South Million Writers Award, and an International Horror Guild Award. His most recent novel, Dust Devil On a Quiet Street, was on the 2014 World Fantasy and Lambda short lists. A new edition of his 2005 novel, From The Files of the Time Rangers, a Nebula finalist, will appear later this year from Lethe Press. Last year, his 9/11 story, "There’s A Hole In The City," got a very nice review in The New Yorker. Recent and forthcoming appearances include: Fantasy Magazine's Queers Destroy Fantasy special issue, Interfictions, Nightmare, Grendel Song, and the anthologies The Doll Collection and Black Feathers. He is currently writing stories that will be chapters in a novel about life as a gay kid in 1950’s Boston. Bradley Robert Parks lives, writes, and performs in and around Brooklyn, NY, where he founded the Brooklyn Speculative Fiction Writers (<a href="http://BSFWriters.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BSFWriters.com</a>). His passion for writing blossomed while growing up in a family of genre readers. While he's been pursuing writing for a while, the crazy energy of NYC and BSFW have given him the focus and motivation to finally get published. His stories have appeared on <a href="http://BuzzyMag.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BuzzyMag.com</a> and on the Kaleidocast podcast. He also sings and narrates stories when time permits. Along with these achievements, he's obtained one husband, Michael, and Insanity Anne Magoo (best cat ever). Keep up with his exploits on Facebook or at <a href="http://BradleyRobertParks.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">BradleyRobertParks.com</a>.

Episode 8: "My Shaigetz" by Marcy Arlin and "His Only Nose" by Richard Bowes