Blood Roots radio plays underway: Playwrights announced

Written By Natalie Axton

In April 2025 our creative team had a kickoff meeting with our four playwrights: Ida Esmaeili, Ann Gillespie, Diana Jean Skeen, and Jess Wells. Director Michael McNulty assigned each playwright a ballad to adapt into a radio play.

Esmaeili : Lord Bateman

Skeen: The Devil’s Curst Wife

Wells: Tom Dula

Gillespie: The Wreck of the Old 97

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