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Over twelve years of podcasting!

Onstage/Offstage Theatre Podcast brings you interviews with theatre professionals of every kind and from all corners of the world.

George Sapio is a playwright, director, producer, actor, and dramaturg. Oatmeal and a Cigarette is published by Broadway Play Publishing. Fault Lines, a comedic full-length, is published by Next Stage Press. Several shorter plays appear in “Best of” anthologies.
He wrote Workshopping the New Play: A Guide for Playwrights, Directors, and Dramaturgs, published by Globe Pequot.
Website: www.gsapio.com

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