Ean Sheehy, David Deblinger, and Richmond Hoxie in "Sundance" by MZ Ribalow. Photo from the New River Dramatists website.
Ean Sheehy, David Deblinger, and Richmond Hoxie in "Sundance" by MZ Ribalow. Photo from the New River Dramatists website.
M.Z. Ribalow

M.Z. Ribalow is an internationally acclaimed Renaissance writer of all forms: from poetry to screenplays, song lyrics to children's books. His plays have been produced in London, Paris, and Amsterdam, and have traversed to the remoter corners of the globe--even to Canada. In addition to a prolific creative writing career, Meir contributes articles to several well-known periodicals providing critique on film, theatre, and music. He has directed numerous plays, and has served as the Artistic Director of the American Repertory Company and the Production Associate at the New York Shakespeare Festival. Meir attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Princeton University, and is currently Artist-in-Residence at Fordham University. He is the Artistic Director of the New River Dramatists.

Shows and Series by M.Z. Ribalow
Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, February 27th, 2012

Actors Patricia Randell, Aaron Serotsky, and Cynthia Adler read a selection of Old Testament-themed work from four poets--Elizabeth Rosner, Yehoshuah November, Mellisa Range, and Reena Ribalow.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, December 26th, 2011

Selections from Peanuts and Crackerjacks, A Baseball Novel (published 2011 by McFarland) read by the author, M.Z. Ribalow.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, November 28th, 2011

Scenes from Hilary Bettis' play Alligator, read by actors Kira Sternbach and Hannah Cheek.


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Originally aired Monday, November 7th, 2011

Distinguished actors Patricia Randell, Chad Coleman, and Lisa Bostnar read a selection of work from four poets--Andrew Glaze, Raymond McDaniel, Dale Winslow, and Barbara Glenn.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, October 17th, 2011

The distinguished stage, television and film actors Patricia Randell, Rosalind Rita, and Geneva Carr read scenes from Wendy Hammond's play.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, September 26th, 2011

A selection of poems from Chasing Ghosts read by the author on the occasion of its 2011 publication by NeoPoiesis Press. M.Z. Ribalow is a poet, playwright and novelist who is Artistic Director of New River Dramatists.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, September 5th, 2011

A story by author Laren Stover read by stage, film, and TV actor Patricia Randell. Stover also penned Bohemian Manifesto, A Field Guide to Living on the Edge and The Bombshell Manual of Style. This reading was selected to mark the 9/11 anniversary.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Stage actress Kira Sternbach reads a section of Glen Hirshberg's novel Motherless Child called "Help Me, Information."


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, August 1st, 2011

Film, stage, TV actor and musician Michael Cerveris (FRINGE) reads the title work from a collection by poet Michael Dickman whose books of poems, The End of the West and Flies were published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009 and 2010.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, July 4th, 2011

From the newly published (Broadway Books of Random House) 2011 collection of short fiction by Alethea Black, one of America's major emerging writers, the title story, I Knew You’d Be Lovely, is read by stage, film, and TV actor Patricia Randell.


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Hosted by M.Z. Ribalow
Originally aired Monday, June 20th, 2011

Actor Ean Sheehy (familiar to Law & Order viewers as well as PS 122 fans) reads three Youth Lesson monologues from Hilary Bettis's award-winning 2011 play American Girls which has been published in Plays from New River 1 (McFarland).


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