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This bi-monthly LIVE radio show on Radio Free Brooklyn hosted by NYC's Killy "Mock$tar" Dwyer is a tasty comedy music treat for your ear holes. Mock-U-Mental is served up with a healthy dose of live jams and interviews with your favorite comedic musicians, topped with listener questions, comments, requests and prank calls, paired with a feel good, mock bottom drinking game. Come play along with Killy, her enigmatic husband Craig Schober, her dog and featuring James Harvey Listen LIVE every other Friday 8-10pm on http://radiofreebrooklyn.com/ AND CALL IN AT 718-928-9RFB (9732) any time during the show to ask a question or make a comment! About our special guest: James Harvey is a musical theatre composer, lyricist, and performer. His comedic one-man show, The Bald Faced Truth: Comedy Songs by James Harvey, has played to sold-out audiences in New York City and addresses such timely issues as male pattern baldness, porn addiction, the #resistance, and cats. James wrote book, music, and lyrics for The Crack in the Ceiling, a darkly comedic musical about a single mother, her son, and their kitchen ceiling. The show was produced at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the New York International Fringe Festival, where it received the award for Overall Excellence in a Musical. A member of the BMI Musical Theater Writing Advanced Workshop, James is currently writing the music for a show about the supreme court. He is also writing the book, music, and lyrics for a musical about amazon.com. In addition to writing and performing, James is a sought-after music director, vocal coach, and accompanist, working for such companies as Tada Youth Theater, A Class Act NY, and the American Musical Theater Academy. James studied music composition at New York University on a scholarship from composer Alan Menken (Beauty and the Beast, Newsies, Little Shop of Horrors).
Eileen Merwin has been fortunate to write and publish fables and other assorted forms of offbeat fiction for both children and adults. She earned an MFA in Creative Writing from Brooklyn College– and has been published in acclaimed children’s magazines Cricket and Spider, as well as having received the Vermont Playwrights Award and honorariums from Highlights and TADA Youth Theater in New York City. Currently she writes for Bearport Publishers in New York City and teaches literature & writing at ASA College in the heart of Herald Square where she credits her students with a constant stream of inspiration and encouragement. Piccolo: an Artist’s Tale, a novella, is the author’s third work of fiction published by Braiswick of Felixstowe, England. Eileen credits Trevor Lockwood, now retired editor in chief, for sustaining her as a writer with his good-natured sarcasm and sometimes searing wit. Web/Social Media for Eileen: Website: Book Bogglers Facebook: Book Bogglers Eileen’s LinkedIn The post Piccolo, An Artist’s Tale – Ep 12 with Eileen Merwin appeared first on Read Learn Live Podcast.