![]() ![]() I’ve pretty much worked with every theater in town at this point, and I’ve met a lot of great people over the years. Now, I’ve been a stage actor for many years. Now, the thing that I like most about this, and you touched on it a little bit earlier, is that you use a lot of local talent for this. So there are themes that come along during the year, but for the most part, all genres all year round. During October, I do like to focus on the horror genre, just like around December I like to focus on the holiday plays. I have had people kind of tune in thinking that it is going to be a Ghost Story podcast, and would you explain to them, yeah, it goes like that theater term all genres, comedy, drama, science fiction. Yeah, just like you said, Ghost Light is a theater term. Thousands of listeners coming in and people are just tuning in and still listening.Īnd so this thing is all genres to you know, it’s not you know, it’s no when you hear it, you may think like, Oh, Ghost Light, it’s going to be scary, but it’s not all that, you know, this is, you know, all kinds of talked about some of the genres that you guys do for these.Īll genres. Even after the pandemic, they’re still subscribers and followers and just people finding it every day. But eventually, you know, people from all of the world are listening. So it was kind of a slow curve on the graph, watching the stats go up. And so I got with them and I adapted some of my own plays to audio plays, and a lot of these playwrights were giving me permission to adapt their plays, and I just started releasing it on this podcast and the response has been overwhelming.Įven, when it started, people had to discover it. So what I did, I met I met a lot of writers and playwrights over the years. So my idea was, you know, with the theater shutdown, people can’t go to the theater, what if I bring theater to people through these audio plays? I notice in a lot of the theater websites and a lot of the social media, they were posting the photographs of their their Ghost Light, you know, just as a way of saying, we’re closed for now, but we’ll be back. So in 2020, we had the pandemic, and during this time, a lot of theaters had to shut down, and, this affected many writers, including myself, because a lot of us had written plays that were slated for production that we’re getting canceled because no one could go to theater. In case anyone shows up middle of the night, you don’t want to fall off the stage. The tradition is part superstition, it’s also part safety. Now, this is a theater tradition that’s been going on for over a century. And there’s a single bulb lamp that sits in the middle of the stage and it lights up the stage. So basically, anytime a theater is unoccupied, you know, when the show is over, everyone goes home and all the lights go off except one. Well, first off, so Ghost Light is a it’s a term it’s a theater term. Since you started it, what’s the response been like from the community since you started doing this? Oh, we just started season four and as far as episode count wise, I think it’s about 54 episodes recorded so far. It’s just called Augusta University now with a with a film degree, that’s how I got started, and didn’t just after I graduated, I just kept working on films on my own, on the side. Well, I graduated from Augusta State University. And as far as filmmaking goes, my latest film, Sally’s Lullaby, has been on a lot of different film festivals all over the world, and it’s won several awards so far, and it’s still going. I’ve won the Porter Fleming Award six times, and that’s a local award by the Morris Museum of Art. I’ve done a lot of acting, stage acting, film acting, as well as voice acting for playwriting. We caught up with Cook ahead of the event to find out more about the podcast and what people can expect from the live event.įirst off, tell us a little bit about yourself. On October 21st, for it’s fundraising event, Gather by the Ghost Light will be live for the first time at Le Chat Noir. The podcast also features plenty of local talent from around the CSRA. Creator, Jonathan Cook produces audio plays that were written by emerging and established playwrights from all around the world. AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF) – Gather by the Ghost Light is a locally produced theater podcast. ![]()
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