Cage of Light

by Bill Gray

adapted for the stage and directed by Neil Marsh

About The Director: After twelve years of doing sound design, Neil Marsh is finally directing his first show with Theatre@First. Will wonders never cease? When he's not thinking about theatre—wait, who are we kidding, he's always thinking about theatre!—Neil is a lifelong fan of radio drama. He co-founded T@F's sister organization, The Post-Meridian Radio Players, and served as its Artistic Director for eight years. During that time he created PMRP's Parsec Award-winning audiodrama miniseries, The Mask of Inanna. Neil is also known for his portrayal of the recurring character Porec in the Blue Sky Red podcast Second Shift. His next project is a new series of audio shorts entitled Tales from Eternity Cove.

About the Playwright: Before his success as an international award-winning movie and TV producer, Bill Gray worked as a radio producer during the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's radio drama "renaissance" of the early 1980s. From the Calgary studios, he wrote and produced episodes of CBC's acclaimed horror anthology Nightfall and later, in Vancouver, wrote host copy for that show's third season, as well as writing this episode for the sci-fi anthology Vanishing Point. Bill's other work includes the television pilot 49th & Main, which he co-produced with former CBC Radio producer and infamous "Smoking Man", William B. Davis. These days Bill can be seen on the Vancouver coffeehouse open-mike circuit performing his own, original songs.