Writers Guild Spoken Word Series: featuring author and audio playwright Brian Price with musical accompaniment by Kyle Quass & Julian Douglas performing THE LAST COYOTE

BRIAN PRICE is a writer, director, and audio producer. He has worked in radio and audio publishing since the 1980s working with groups such as the Iowa Radio Project, The Grist Mill Horror Series, Native Voices at the Autry, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. His short comic skits, plays, and monologues have been performed by community groups across the country and two of his plays have been translated into Croatian and Chinese. He is a founding partner in Great Northern Audio Theatre which created and produced 20 years of live Mark Time Radio shows for Minnesota’s Convergence Science Fiction Convention. Their feature-length “In the Embers” received an APA Audie Award for Best Audio Drama in 2017. He has published two books of short fiction, monologues and poetry, “The Old Cart Wrangler, The New Silence, and Other Notions” (2020), and “The Wrong Side of the River and Other Points of Interest” (2022), He has some concerns about the general future of mankind, and often gets paid in T-shirts and “gimme hats.” He is a member in good standing of the “The Electroacoustical Poetical Society.” www.greatnorthernaudio.com

KYLE QUASS and JULIAN DOUGLAS have been collaborating for 20 years. Across this time they have performed in many differing ensembles, co-led several bands, and worked on multiple recording projects. In the process they have formed their own unique shared language blending progressive jazz and contemporary world music. Releases on which they’ve collaborated include Kyle Quass’ Fractured and Julian Douglas’ Talafawa.