recent work

the Troll

A radio drama written and produced by Eric Molinksy.  If you like superheroes and NPR inside jokes, check it out.  I play intrepid public radio reporter Shelby Siegel Schwartz. With the talented vocal stylings of Erik Bergman, Jen Cohn and Arun Rath.

the big girls/dr. louise forest

the big girls/dr. louise forest

Produced for : PRI/WNC’s Studio 360
Airdate: May 26, 2007

Excerpt read by Mallory Kasdan.

Susanna Moore’s new novel, “The Big Girls,” is set in a federal women’s prison. Dr. Louise forest is chief Prison Psychiatrist, a single mother who is highly intelligent and educated at the best schools. Rebellion from this elite background, coupled with guilt over a past patient’s suicide has brougth her to Sloatsburg Correctional Facility, where she counsels a woman who killed her own two children.

Sensation Novel

Sensation Novel

Produced for: PRI/WNYC’s Studio 360 
Airdate: June 19, 2004

Excerpt read by Mallory Kasdan

In the middle of the 19th century, cheap wild & sexy commercial fiction became a form all its own — and boomed. These books were called “sensation novels.” George Lippard published several sensation novels including one in 1848 called the Bel of Prairie Eden. In this excerpt set in Texas in the years just before the Mexican war, which lasted from 1846 to 1848, the house of a rich Texan is invaded by his Scottish overseer who’s in league with the Mexican army. 

“Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results”

“Fish! A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results”

by Stephen P. Lundin, PhD., Harry Paul, and John Christensen

Audiobook read by Mallory Kasdan

Bantam Books Audio, 2000
Buy the audio book.

Fish! is an parable for all businesses and managers, providing steps to maximize productivity and creativity in the workplace.

Using the example of Seattle’s Pike Place Market, the authors present the keys to turning a stagnant department into a thriving environment.