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Gregory Whitehead is a writer, audio artist, media philosopher,
and the creator of more than two hundred radio plays, essays and acoustic adventures for the BBC, Radio France, Australia’s ABC, NPR and other broadcasters. His plays have won numerous major awards, including a Prix Italia for Pressures of the Unspeakable, a Prix Futura for Shake, Rattle, Roll and a Sony Gold Academy Award for The Loneliest Road. His (2005) production of Normi Noel’s No Background Music, featuring Sigourney Weaver, also received a Sony Gold Academy Award.

Since the 1980s, his work represents a sustained exploration of the paradoxes and frictions that make analog broadcast so beautifully bewildering. Above all else, Whitehead understands radio play as a form of philosophical and poetic investigation into the strange, dangerous and absurd spirit of our times.

Whitehead is a frequent performer in literary cabarets and mixed media theatre events, as well as a featured guest speaker at conferences and audio festivals throughout the US and Europe. He has collaborated with Zaven Paré, Mark Sussman and Allen Weiss on a Theater of the Ears, and has also experimented with small-scale puppet and toy theaters.

In 2001, shortly before 9/11, he created a video installation at Location One gallery titled Delivery System No. 1, which explored the complicity of synchronized media heads within the rhythms of catastrophe. His 2003 imaginary documentation of a fictive Bone Trade, centered on the buying and selling of celebrity body parts, was installed at Mass Moca.

Whitehead is co-editor of the influential anthology of writings on the history of radio and audio art, Wireless Imagination: sound radio and the avant-garde, and the author of numerous essays that explore the politics and paradoxes of radiophonic space, as well as the diverse absurdities of the moment.

As a vocalist, Whitehead has performed in numerous ensembles since his days as a boy soprano, and he retains a strong interest in the world’s varied traditions of polyphony.

Enquiries regarding specific plays, programs and projects may be directed via email: gregorywhitehead(at)mac(dot)com

Projects, Plays

and Digressions

Desperado Philosophy

Mainly The Mysteries

Radio Poetics, Interference

Bring Me The Head of PKD

Let Us Lay On Splendid Nights

The Day King Hammer Fell From The Sky

After Lunch: for HP

Here Comes Everybody

Four Queen Songs

The Loneliest Road

Bread On the Waters

On One Lost Hair

America in Autumn

Project Jericho

Delivery System No. 1

No Background Music

Rocks, Riptides, Buoys

The Catastrophe Class

Resurrection Ranch

The Thing About Bugs

Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered

Everything I Know

About Glossolalia

Shake, Rattle, Roll

Night-walkers, Magians, Bakchoi, Lenai, and the initiated . . .

- Heraclitus

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Here, with Doggy Ear

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