New Drama for Radio, iPod and Zune!
The Mask of Inanna - A new bi-monthly radio show, ten episodes of over an hour each. Written, produced and edited by Alicia E. Goranson in conjunction with the Post-Meridian Radio Players. Features the contemporary story of Leonard Allen, host of After Dark, the greatest independent horror show of the 1950's, and unwitting pawn to several mysterious organizations who desire his voice. Snatched from his nursing home, he now lives on the lighthouse by the cliff, broadcasting his old shows over pirate radio. Filled with demons, spirits and cults, every episode is a two-for-one treat, featuring both the contemporary story of Leonard Allen, with his alter ego Dr. Damien Crask, and a complete episode from his 1950's horror show After Dark.
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Recent Stage Shows
War of the Worlds: The Mob vs. The Martians and the Fall of Boston - October 29-31 @ 8 PM and October 31 Matinee @ 2 PM - Somerville Theater
Neil Marsh and I co-wrote a revisioning of War of the Worlds in Boston, featuring mobsters from the North and South Ends. Based on the version played on Orson Welles' show, it features special guests including Somerville's own Tom Champion! I edited Act I and wrote Act II, and developed the "Mob vs. the Martians" concept.
NOVELS
Supervillainz - 2006 Lambda Literary Award Finalist and Winner of the 2003 Project QueerLit competition. A self-aggrandizing superhero has his head shot off by the crowd he is trying to impress. It is scooped up by a pair of curious friends, Bit and Devon - fresh from college, transgendered and much too smart for their own good. Follow them on an exciting journey in which they learn the secrets of the superheroes, charm their mother and literally bring the house down upon them with some very unlikely allies.
Provincetown, Ho! - An adventurous exploration of working-class life on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Retiree Sarah Carter has gathered so much stress over her life, she needs to walk from end of Cape Cod to Provincetown. Most people retire to Cape Cod to settle down. A lucky few come to stir things up. Those Sotheby’s "For Sale" signs lining Route 6A aren’t going to knock themselves down!
War of the Foxes - A modern folktale about a girl who wanted to save her friends and the woman who tried to stop her. Cheryl Montague is smitten in postmodern ecstasy over acquiring her own tail, even if it means stealing it from the MIT Media Lab. In preparing it for daily use, she meets Elory Burke, a former belle of the BDSM/fetish community who wore a tail herself once, but now lives isolated near Jamaica Plain, MA. Adventure and drama ensure.
PLAYS
The Cabal of Lady Windermere's Bottom - A tribute to the comedies of Oscar Wilde. Like Paris Hilton inventing the Masons, a clique of Victorian socialites create a Cabal to skirt free from the machinations of their Matriarch, only to uncover a horrid scandal about her. To be added soon.
The B'Arkies - A one-act, ten minute play. The fantasy lives of a young autistic man and a paranoid homeless woman come together and transform them in an Amélie-type tale. Performed as part of Ten Tiny Shows on September 19 at the Central Square YMCA, part of a set of ten ten-minute plays by local performance artists, produced by the Amazon Slam's own Ren Jender.
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ABOUT
Alicia E. Goranson is a local Boston author and playwright. Her writing has appeared in the anthologies Pinned Down By Pronouns and Best Lesbian Erotica 2007 and in Other Magazine. Her novel Supervillainz is a 2006 Lambda Literary Award Finalist and the co-winner of the 2005 Project QueerLit award. It is available from Suspect Thoughts Press. She reads all across the country.