MIC & IKE: State Of Overwhelm by Eric Drachman

Update: Very proud to say that Albert Dayan and I won 2nd place for this piece!!

Check out the finalists on KCRW.com at:
http://blogs.kcrw.com/ipp/?p=1448
and it aired on "UnFictional" as part of the top three:
http://www.kcrw.com/etc/programs/uf/uf13090624-hour_radio_race_2

Contestants were given 24 hours to create a radio piece based on the theme "The Last Thing You'd Expect".

The result is what Albert and I came up with in that long day and night...

Produced by Albert Dayan & Eric Drachman (Team "Mic & Ike")
as part of the 24-hour Radio Race from KCRW's Independent Producer Project

Photo by Peter Konerko

Albert Dayan has a BA in acting from Cal Arts. He lives in Los Angeles and writes with the award winning Burglars of Hamm, a theatre company that has been called “Los Angeles’ goofiest social satirists” (LA Times) and “Maybe the closest thing LA has to the Pythons.” (Backstage West). He's a husband, dad, writer, actor, director, visual artist, teacher, and now, for the first time... a radio producer.

After high school, Eric Drachman did an internship with a local radio station, getting up early and working for the morning shock jock. He got a degree in psychology, then acting, then started publishing children's books and audiobooks under his own imprint, Kidwick Books. He co-produced his first radio piece. Then last Fall, Eric went to Cape Cod for the Transom Story Workshop and is now chomping at the bit to make more radio.