@rickallenlippert.bsky.social
Working both sides of the camera & mic for 50 years. Adjunct professor emeritus. Playwright. Theatre advocate. Linkedin Learning author.
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It’s safe to say that one man is responsible for bringing international recognition to This Town’s river sports, Mike Knopp. No Boathouse District without him. A most interesting story. On all platforms, but here's the link to Substack: open.substack.com/pub/rickalle...
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If one were writing the story of Roberta Sloan’s life, it would take at least five, if not six, acts. Stints in academia interrupted by TV, plus lecturing on the high seas! Now the Founding Artistic Director of Jewish Theatre of OK.
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NEW PODCAST ALERT! Second part of CST exec artistic dir Rhonda Clark. She tells of her early days w CST & all of the moves (& challenges!) plus her faves as an actor & director. On all platforms. Substack link (please subscribe): open.substack.com/pub/rickalle...
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Carpenter Square Theatre executive artistic director Rhonda M. Clark tells stories of her early years performing and eventually directing in the first part of this two-part interview. Here's the link to it on my Substack:
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His byline has graced many newspapers around the state. M. Scott Carter has also written several books. Just wait til you hear him tell the real story of moving the state seal from Guthrie to OKC!
Here's the link to my Substack. rickallenlippert.substack.com/.../this-tow....
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Scott Munz has a story that's much more interesting than his 37 years with the Great State Fair of Oklahoma. Although you'll enjoy hearing about the Six-foot Man Eating Chicken! Available on all major platforms, but here's the link to my Substack.
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New podcast alert! Leadership OKC exec dir Christy Zelley tells her story and details the history and current programs offered by LOKC. Available on all major platforms. Here's the link to my Substack:
rickallenlippert.substack.com/p/this-town-...
Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre
Correction: The first MAPS tax was approved in 1993.
23.06.2025 13:08 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0With Oklahoma City winning the NBA Finals at home in the Paycom Center, I think we should acknowledge that this journey really began in 1992 when voters passed a 1-cent sales tax to revitalize downtown. The arena was just one of several projects. We basically taxed ourselves into prosperity.
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Taking advantage of having long-time friend Jim Beaver in OKC to shoot a film I was producing, I took the opportunity to record this podcast. Jim tells of his start as an actor in both NYC & LA and of his roles on many, many TV shows including Justified & Deadwood. Available on all major platforms.
17.06.2025 17:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Billie Thrash came here in the 1970s on a whim and has since graced the stages of many theatre companies as a choreographer, director, and performer. She describes working with Carpenter Square in its inaugural season and choreographing this town's first production of The Rocky Horror Show.
11.06.2025 01:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A joyous intersection of a couple of my past lives at the table read for a film I’m producing. Kathy Kelly Christos was in Rick Allen’s Perfect Fun back about 1990, and Jim Beaver and I gunfought together at Frontier City in the mid-70s. Looking forward to seeing them together on screen!
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Latest episode of This Town OKC now available on your favorite podcast platform! Hear KGOU-FM general manager Dick Pryor tell about his start in broadcasting and the interesting stops along the way.
Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre.
Cacky Poarch has made a name for herself as the executive director of the deadCenter Film Festival - twice. Leaving after this summer's Festival, she tells of growing up in the red dirt, tumbleweed-strewn fields of Quail Creek and some really odd jobs.
On your favorite podcast platform.
Latest episode of This Town OKC features long-time radio and voice talent Randy Kemp of RK-One Productions. He tells fascinating stories about his early career in radio & tv, especially his on-air audition at the age of 14. Sponsored by Carpenter Square Theatre.
Available on all major platforms.
Seemed like a good time to subscribe to The Atlantic, so I have. Less than WaPo without Bezos’ thumb on the scale. Only regret is not switching earlier.
26.03.2025 10:59 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Latest episode of This Town OKC podcast now available on all major platforms! Hear Joy Reed Belt tell how this PK ended up as the Keeper of The Paseo with several interesting stops along the way.
Apple: apple.co/4iqWc78
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1db9...
Podcast now on all major platforms. Terry Veal has performed in virtually every theater in Oklahoma City over the past 40-odd years. He's been a mainstay at Carpenter Square Theatre since its first season.
Link to Spoitify: lnkd.in/gVvz77WM
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Featuring the people behind the culture of Oklahoma City, This Town OKC with Leslie Spears. She's been an influencer since before that was a term! And she tells how the OKCMOA came to be the premier exhibitor of glass artist Dale Chihuly. Here's the link to Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/s...
16.02.2025 23:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Inaugural podcast of This Town OKC from Lippert Media featuring the people behind the culture of Oklahoma City is now available. This episode features Ben Hall, an actor, director, writer, and scenic designer.
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How long will it take for the J6 pardoned felons to seek reparations? 30 days? A week?
22.01.2025 05:50 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0President Biden is running out of time to resign so that Vice-president Harris can become #47. How sad it would be for all that maga merch to become obsolete.
17.01.2025 13:42 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0President Biden is running out of time to resign so that Vice-president Harris can become #47. How sad it would be for all that maga merch to become obsolete.
17.01.2025 04:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Consider the turmoil President Biden could create if, in the week ahead, he were to resign. That would make Kamala Harris the 47th president, and all of that merchandise MAGA has bought would be obsolete. That would be crying shame!
13.01.2025 03:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Consider the turmoil President Biden could create if, in the week ahead, he were to resign. That would make Kamala Harris the 47th president, and all of that merchandise MAGA has bought would be obsolete. That would be crying shame!
13.01.2025 03:27 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Stoked to announce that my ten-minute play, "The Pendulum of Injustice," has been selected as part of the "Love is a Battlefield" series of short plays at the Broken Arrow Community Playhouse, Feb 21-23. (My third for them) Auditions Jan 18 & 19 for you Tulsa-area actors!
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