Sarah Montague
Sarah Montague, in her fourteenth year as producer for the SELECTED SHORTS program on the radio, is an award-winning producer/director with over twenty years' experience in creating cultural programming for public radio, including the drama series "The Radio Stage" and the documentaries "Titanic: Unsinkable Myth"; "They Made America" (with Sir Harold Evans); and "The Fall of the City: Prophetic Classic.” Most recently, she directed the revival of Archibald MacLeish's "The Fall of the City" for the opening of WNYC's Jerome L. Greene Performance Space. The production won a 2009 Gracie Award for Best Drama.
Montague is a former board member of the Association of Independents in Radio and the National Audio Theatre Festivals, and is on the faculty of Eugene Lang College, where she teaches a range of radio and audio courses. She has been the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts. In addition to the Gracie Award, she has been recognized by the International Radio Festival and the National Federation of Community Broadcasters. Montague was also a 1994 Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence.
Sarah Montague appears in the following:
Hollywood's Blonde Obsession
Friday, February 24, 2012
In the movies, blonde is more than just a hair color. “In the mind of the moviegoing male,” says film critic Rafer Guzman, “the blonde is something that you own, that you want to own. She represents something that you’re going to attain … like an expensive watch ..."
Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet
Friday, December 23, 2011
Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the new movie Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, is the latest actor to take on this iconic role. Guy Ritchie, the film's director, says Holmes' persona is an even divide between enigma and accessibility. WNYC's Sarah Montague traces ...
Introducing Norman Bates
Friday, June 11, 2010
Throughout the 1950s, reports of sex crime and pathological murder rattled America. "Psycho" both exploits and "explains" one such murder, with a rather heavy-handed psychiatrist. But beyond the screeching violins and the risque shower scene, the movie's real legacy is that Hitchcock makes us care so much about ...
Sherlock Holmes as Hamlet
Friday, December 25, 2009
Robert Downey Jr., who stars in the new movie "Sherlock Holmes," is the latest actor to take on this iconic role. Guy Ritchie, the film's director, says Holmes' persona is an even divide between enigma and accessibility. WNYC's Sarah Montague traces the character's evolution and ...
Not Losing His Religion
Friday, February 22, 2008
He was the godfather of science writing. Sir Thomas Browne's exacting observations and gorgeous prose anticipated modern science writers like Rachel Carson, Stephen Jay Gould, and Oliver Sacks. But Browne lived in the 1600s, and his way of reconciling the scriptures with science looks surprisingly like what we ...
Shakespeare in the Park
Friday, August 25, 2006
Right now, New Yorkers can see Meryl Streep and Kevin Kline performing in Bertolt Brecht's play Mother Courage and Her Children at the fiftieth annual Shakespeare in the Park festival. This isn't the first time a playwright other than Shakespeare has crashed the festival. WNYC's Sarah Montague ...
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