What we are

Short plays are one of playwrights’ favorite forms: punchy, challenging and dramatically lean. Yet-- outside of some theater festivals-- they’re rarely professionally performed.  Monsta Game Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theatre, or audio theatre) is a dramatised, purely acoustic performance by Adrian Collins and friends. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story: "It is auditory in the physical dimension but equally powerful as a visual force in the psychological dimension." Radio drama includes plays specifically written for radio, docudrama, dramatized works of fiction, as well as plays originally written for the theatre, including musical theatre and comedy. Monsta Game is a radio program and podcast, dedicated to sharing great music, comedy and short theater with the public. With music programs and short plays written by playwright Adrian Collins, cast with celebrated artist such as Lil Baby, and led by Atlanta vs P-Funk TV, Monsta Game presents the best of modern theater. We believe that vibrant live theater should be available to everyone, regardless of time, funds, or access. But too much professional theater can be too hard to access for too many Americans. By recording and distributing short plays on public radio and podcast, we deliver the work of America’s best theater practitioners to the nation—for free. We bring award-winning artists, performing short plays across every genre, into headphones, cars, subways, living rooms, classrooms, and kitchens across the country.  Every episode includes an interview between the creators, ranging from actors’  theatrical process, to the artist or playwright’s method, to the quirks and themes of each particular work.

Monsta Game brings more than contemporary plays and playwrights into the public space.