Dracula : The Radio Play Creative

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Author of Play
Philip Grecian
Philip Grecian is an alumnus of Creede Repertory Theatre, a professional company in Colorado. He continues to maintain a connection with Creede, which has produced several of his plays and has featured him as a returning guest performer. He has worked as a writer/director for film, video and audio production, and his televised live radio version of Dracula earned an Emmy in 2010, as well as a Videographer Award of Excellence and a Platinum Hermes Creative Award. Other works include The Dragon of Nitt and The Lion and the Lyre (both translated and performed in Russia); the authorized stage production of In His Steps, a drama; Little Pills, a farce; Toby Saves the Farm, a musical salute to tent shows; and a translation of Mozart's opera, The Magic Flute. His staged and televised radio dramas, in addition to Dracula (Emmy winner) and It's a Wonderful Life, include Twisted Tales of Poe (winner of a Gold AVA Digital Award), A Christmas Carol, The Hound of the Baskervilles (nominated for an Emmy and winner of a Telly Award), The Blood Countess, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man and others. His work has been produced at the Cleveland Play House; Arts Club Theatre Company; Actors Theatre of Louisville; Geva Theatre Center, Rochester, N.Y.; Orlando Repertory Theatre; San Jose Repertory Theatre; Theatre Orangeville, Ontario; Theatre IV, Richmond, Va.; Theatre New Brunswick, Canada; Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Montgomery, Ala.; The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Pioneer Theatre Company, Salt Lake City; Manitoba Theatre Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba; Portland Center Stage; and Syracuse Stage, among others.
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Director
Stephen Scovasso
Stephen Scovasso is a musicologist, conductor, director and author. He has directed operas including, Carmen, Tosca, La Bohème, Don Giovanni, Gianni Schicchi, Cosi fan Tutte as well operetta's such as The Merry Widow and Die Fledermaus. He has also directed American Musical Theater pieces such as Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd, Into the Woods and Bernstein’s Candide. In the dramatic theater, Stephen has directed Garcia Lorca’s La Casa del Bernarda Alba, Oscar Wilde’s Salome. In conjunction with SAS Performing Arts Company, he has produced and directed 6 full length virtual streams including Dracula: The Radio Play, Dickens's A Christmas Carol. Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream as well as many virtual concerts and holiday concerts.

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Abraham (Bram) Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author who is celebrated for his 1897 Gothic horror novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Sir Henry Irving and business manager of the Lyceum Theatre, which Irving owned. In his early years, Stoker worked as a theatre critic for an Irish newspaper and wrote stories as well as commentaries. He also enjoyed travelling, particularly to Cruden Bay where he set two of his novels. During another visit to the English coastal town of Whitby, Stoker drew inspiration for writing Dracula. He died on 20 April 1912 due to Locomotor ataxia and was cremated in north London. Since his death, his magnum opus Dracula has become one of the most well-known works in English literature, and the novel has been adapted for numerous films, short stories and plays. 

Dracula is an epistolary novel, written as a collection of realistic but completely fictional diary entries, telegrams, letters, ship's logs, and newspaper clippings, all of which added a level of detailed realism to the story, a skill which Stoker had developed as a newspaper writer. At the time of its publication, Dracula was considered a "straightforward horror novel" based on imaginary creations of supernatural life. "It gave form to a universal fantasy ... and became a part of popular culture." 

Stoker was a deeply private man, but his almost sexless marriage,[citation needed] his admiration of Walt Whitman, Henry Irving, Hall Caine, and Oscar Wilde, as well as the perceived homoerotic aspects of Dracula, have led to scholarly speculation that he was a repressed homosexual who used his fiction as an outlet for his sexual frustrations. In 1912, he demanded imprisonment of all homosexual authors in Britain: it has been suggested that this was to disguise his own vulnerability. 

According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography, Stoker's stories are today included in the categories of horror fiction, romanticized Gothic stories, and melodrama. They are classified alongside other works of popular fiction, such as Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which also used the myth-making and story-telling method of having multiple narrators telling the same tale from different perspectives. According to historian Jules Zanger, this leads the reader to the assumption that "they can't all be lying".