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
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Projects, Plays

and Digressions


Desperado Philosophy


Mainly The Mysteries


Radio Poetics, Interference

and Muck


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


The Club


Four Queen Songs


The Loneliest Road


Bread On the Waters


On One Lost Hair


Danse Macabre


The Knee


Screamscapes


America in Autumn


Project Jericho


Dead Letters


The Bone Trade


Delivery System No. 1


American Heavy


No Background Music


Hungry For God


Rocks, Riptides, Buoys


The Catastrophe Class


Resurrection Ranch


The Thing About Bugs


Display Wounds


Bewitched, Bothered, Bewildered


Everything I Know

About Glossolalia


Shake, Rattle, Roll



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