In early March, a collection of 15 Seattle-based performers came together to rehearse for Season Three of BRASS: The Audio Series. It was an intense and slightly chaotic couple of days, with many missed paginations and last-minute adjustments. Thanks to both Kate Kraay and Tremaine for loaning out their houses for bands of roving actors. … Read More
From Extras to Indies: An Interview with BRASS actor Nancy Frye
Actor, costumer, and seasoned hand at about a half-dozen other roles in front of or behind the camera, Nancy Frye has voiced that theatrical criminal mastermind M. Tressano since the first season of BRASS. The UW-trained Frye lived in Japan and California before returning to Washington, adding to her credits throwing spears from horseback in heavy armor for the History … Read More
What’s That I Hear? A Rumination on Podcast Vs. Radio Listening
vs. This week BRASS is a featured show on another great public radio station, KFAI 106.7 FM in Minneapolis. Jerry Stearn’s venerated audio drama show Sound Affects, A Radio Playground, will be playing all of Season One of our show beginning this Sunday at 9:30. KFAI joins a roster of radio stations, both public and commercial, who’ve … Read More
W.B. Yeats: Magician
The world of BRASS is alternate history, but one that hews in some ways very close to our own. There really was an occult movement in the London of the 1880s, one that centered around the Russian seer and founder of Theosophy, Madame Blavatsky, who was living in London in 1887. And as in our story, one of her early … Read More
William Morris: The Man Who Did Everything
Episode 3 of The Devil in Whitechapel takes Lord and Lady Brass into the famed salon of William Morris, and an encounter with not only George Bernard Shaw and Oscar Wilde, but an introduction to W. B. Yeats. All men, and many more, were good friends of Morris, who was one of the most significant figures in the history of … Read More
A Clear, Shrewd Brain: Enter Loveday Brooke
Lady Brass is known as being particularly peeved by rival detectives, particularly “a certain hawk-nosed poseur” who is more interested in publicizing his work than doing it diligently himself. Now in BRASS: The Devil in Whitechapel, she has a new rival, the Lady Detective Loveday Brooke, a dogged sleuth with a talent for disguise. Brooke was also a character in … Read More
Interview with Whitechapel’s Co-Creator Tadd Morgan
Tadd Morgan has been a part of BRASS since its very beginning, playing a wide variety of roles in all of its incarnations–Vincent Law and the Graveyard King on the podcast, Oscar Wilde and the Phantom both in audio and onstage, and as unfortunate hireling Theo in Red Widow and the inventor Donisthorpe in The Kinesigraph. He’s featured not only … Read More
The Christmas Case: A Lady Brass Mystery
Battleground Productions Presents: A Staged Reading of The Christmas Case: A Lady Brass Mystery In this new play by the author of Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, a lady detective and her daughter arrive incognito at a country house on Christmas Eve for some quiet and rest, but instead find mystery and intrigue when a valuable … Read More
BRASS Artist Profile: Anson Maddocks
For our current mini-series “The Devil in Whitechapel,” we wanted to create new promotional artwork more in keeping with its horror-themed atmosphere. So we commissioned an artist particularly well-known for his mastery of the sinister, the strange, and the macabre, Anson Maddocks. Maddocks created a huge number of original art for cards in the early days of Magic: the Gathering … Read More
At Long Last…PATREON!
Yay! Our Patreon is FINALLY UP! So what is it? Patreon is a bit like a busker’s hat. Instead of seeking producers at the start of a project or buyers for a finished product, the Patreon model is to allow our supporters to show their appreciation for what we’re doing while we’re doing it. As we’ve all heard, the internet’s … Read More