Host Patricia Milton interviews Gary Graves about his world premiere play Mondragola, along with Central Works’ resident sound designer, Gregory Scharpen, who also engineers the podcast. More info and tickets, and to read the script: centralworks.org

Gary Graves has been a resident playwright and company co-director at Central Works since 1998. He has been a part of developing 70 world premiere productions with the company, many of which he has either written and/or directed, including two other plays about Machiavelli: The Prince, and The Lion and the Fox. He also leads the Central Works Playwriting Program, and he teaches playwriting year-round at the Berkeley Rep School of Theater.

Gregory Scharpen is the resident sound designer at Central Works, having designed the sound for 70 different productions. He’s also known for hisaward-winning film editing, his experimental music group, Thomas Carnacki, the KALX Berkeley radio show “Arts In Review,” and more.

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