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Who is Joe Frank? Joe introduced by Davia Nelson at Third Coast Audio Festival Panel 2003. Joe Frank began his career in 1976 at WBAI, in New York City. In his Saturday night show, “In the Dark,” he experimented with live freeform radio featuring his monologues and actor improvisations.
Joe Frank ( né Joseph Langermann; August 19, 1938 – January 15, 2018) was a French-born American writer, teacher, and radio performer best known for his often philosophical, humorous, surrealist, and sometimes absurd monologues and radio dramas he recorded often in collaboration with friends, actors, and family members. [1] Early life.
An American radio icon, Joe Frank was recently called the "Godfather of the modern-day podcast." For over 40 years, Joe produced more than 230 hours of original, timeless radio programs.
"Joe Frank is an invaluable warrior who stands in defense of our fears, our vanities and our forever-eroding sense of ourselves. He transforms the everyday banality of the human comedy into an inspired weirdness that feeds on pathos and irony, and feels a lot like revelation.
An American radio icon, Joe is known best for his engaging, often philosophical, monologues and radio dramas. Joe’s radio programs are at times dark and frequently funny. Adding to the absurd atmosphere of his monologues and dramas are loops of percussive music over drones.
Jan 19, 2018 · Joe Frank, who stretched the boundaries of radio storytelling with mind-bending, absurdist monologues often fueled by his neuroses and his dark view of the world, died on Monday in Beverly Hills,...
Jan 17, 2018 · There were times when Joe Frank's radio show turned unnervingly confessional, segments when he patiently explained why he had written no material for that week's broadcast: His cat of 14...
