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Omnibus #52
Posted Friday, January 30, 2009. Total length: 28:41
In 1967, drama instructor Ned Bobkoff and a group of students discovered a forgotten and unused corner of campus that they transformed into the Loft Theatre. Over the next several years, this venue was home to everything from existential and absurdist drama to poetry readings, jazz concerts, and comedies. In this interview, Ned describes those early days, as well as the landscape of drama in the late 1960s: Off Off Boradway, anti-war plays, happenings, and more. He also recalls the many students who were involved in the Loft, many of whom later went on to work in the theatre.
Since leaving Dowling in the mid 1980s, Ned's work has taken him from the Institute of American Indian Arts to the National Conservatory in Turkey. He is currently adapting for the stage Ali and Nino, Kurban Said's tale of a Romeo and Juliet style romance set in Azerbaijan in the early 1920s.
This interview is cross-posted with our 40th anniversary blog, Born in the Sixties: The First Year of Dowling College 1968-69, which also includes scanned images and documents from our archives documenting the first academic year at Dowling.
Ned Bobkoff
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(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)
- 0:04 Introduction
Chris kretz - Assitant Professor/Reference Librarian - 1:54 Interview
Ned Bobkoff, drama professor at Dowling from 1967 to 1986
Related resources:
- Additional writings by Ned Bobkoff
- Vision: A Theatre Memoir (part 2). Ned's own account of the Loft Theatre from Scene4 Magazine. (added 03/04/10)
- Oz in America (added 02/20/09)
- Cross Cultural Collaboration: Friend or Foe?
- Jazz/Soothing the Raging Beast
- A review of Ali and Nino by Elin Suleymanov, along with other articles from Azerbaijan International
- Ali and Nino (find in a library via WorldCat)
- La Mama Experimental Theatre Club
Music: "El Relicario" by Blue Jar
Slideshow of past Loft Theatre productions:
Omnibus #50
Posted Wednesday, November 19, 2008. Total length: 25:01
Dr. Kim Poppiti
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(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)
- 0:02 Introduction
Chris Kretz - Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian - 0:44 Interview
Dr. Kim Poppiti, assistant professor of drama and dance- Poppiti, Kimberly. "Galloping Horses: Treadmills and Other Appliances in Hippodrama." TD&T: Theatre Design & Technology" 41.4 (2005):46-65.
- Full length version of "Galloping Horses"
- U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
- 22:35 50th Episode Celebration
Omnibus #37
Posted Wednesday, November 07, 2007. Total length: 23:15
A selection of poems from the 2007 issue of riverrun, Dowling's art and literary magazine, as read by students. Also, a slideshow of artwork from the issue.
A Fire in Falluja by Margie Suarez
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(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)
- 0:20 Introduction
Chris Kretz - Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian - 0:57 "Thanks to the Wind"
Kevin Jackson - 2:52 "A Fire in Falluja"
Margie Suarez - 4:07 "The Real Fate of Atlantis"
Erica Determann - 5:04 "Sushi for Dinner"
JeongMin Park (read by Dr. Andrew Karp) - 6:12 "Grandmother's Fireplace"
Michele Keogh - 7:01 "Replay"
Margie Suarez - 8:10 "Harmonica Days"
Jennifer Davis (read by Erica Determann) - 9:25 "Ying Yang Shmang"
Denice Frohman (read by Kevin Jackson) - 10:23 "Camelot"
Michele Keogh - 11:12 "The Eye of Dawn (Mata Hari)"
Erica Determann - 13:16 "The Up"
Denice Frohman (read by Dr. Andrew Karp) - 14:31 "Untitled (Falling Buffalo)"
Kevin Jackson- Inspired by the photograph "Untitled (Falling Buffalo)" by David Wojnarowicz
- 15:51 "Raindrops on a Windshield"
Kimberly Margolis - 16:37 Making riverrun
Interview with Erica Determann and Dr. Andrew Karp
cafe, saxophone, London Underground, boiling water, kalimba, clock chime, knife grinder's whistle, Dutch street-organ, wind up dinosaur, more London Underground, a different cafe, radio dial, car door slam.
Song: "Is That a Riot?" YoungBlood Brass Band
Omnibus #35
Posted Tuesday, October 02, 2007. Total length: 13:51
Samira Abbassy
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(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)
- 0:06 Introduction
Chris Kretz - Assistant Professor/Reference Librarian - 1:19 Interview with Samira Abbassy including Dr. Stephen Lamia
- Anthony Giordano Gallery, Dowling College
- "Born in Iran, She Seeks Her Identity." New York Times, October 7, 2007 by Benjamin Genocchio
- "Samira Abbassy: Iranian-born Artist at Dowling." Newsday, October 1, 2007 by Ariella Buddick
- Interview with Samira Abbassy by Ana-Maurine Lara from A Gathering of the Tribes
- Gallery of Islamic & Persian Manuscripts from the Philosophical Research Society
Song: "Frankenburg Blues" by Bettina
Omnibus #21
Posted Wednesday, February 28, 2007. Total length: 25:57
Part One of an interview with Leroy Douglas, Class of 1964. (Part Two to be posted March 2nd)
Click on shownotes to see a slideshow of images from the 1963 yearbook.
Leroy Douglas
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(Music Courtesy of the Podshow Podsafe Music Network)
Song: Pretty Baby by The Hillbilly Casino
- 0:05 Introduction
Chris Kretz - Instructor/Reference Librarian - 1:45 In The Beginning
Leroy Douglas, Class of 1964, reminisces about being one of the first full
time students to attend Dowling College (originally known as Adelphi Suffolk
College). From Wyandanch to Sayville to Oakdale, his story illuminates the
development of the college as well as Suffolk County. Part II of this
interview will be posted Friday, March 2nd. - 23:30 The Humanitarian Club
Message from Russell Gerry, president of the Dowling Humanitarian Club, on upcoming events and activities.
