The Scamp Radio (1/2) Hour

The Scamp Radio (1/2) Hour is the creative outpouring of a team of youth writers who gathered the summer of 2020 for our Radio Play Camp. Guided by Wolfe Bowart, the Scamps wrote over a dozen scenes and short plays that were designed to be heard rather than seen. After the plays were finished, Wolfe Bowart, working with sound engineer (and voice talent) Tiffer Hill, brought on a team of professional actors, Gabriella De Brequet, Lance Guzman, and Nicole DelPrete, to bring the stories to life.

These stories are the work of Axel, Willow, Lucy, Scarlett, Isis, Henry, Sebastian, Dillon, Max and Thomas.

Supplemented with the foley of yesteryear and the sound FX libraries of today, Wolfe wove the sound into a half hour of entertainment that evokes the golden age of radio.

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Image by Wolfe Bowart

Image by Wolfe Bowart

You think kids say the darnedest things? Wait until you hear them write radio plays.

  • Hear a vegetarian alligator begrudgingly take a job at the Meat Bitz factory.

  • Listen as a quarantined girl discovers that the fine china in her home is conspiring against her.

  • And marvel at the not so true story of A Pigeon, a Bear and the Assassin Boss.

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This work is made possible with the support of The Arts Foundation for Tucson and Southern Arizona.


Our Artists

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Wolfe Bowart

Physical theatre playwright and performer Wolfe Bowart is devoted to creating and presenting theatre productions that engage cross-generational audiences in theatrical experiences that evoke thought, wonder, and laughter.

Under the banner of his company SpoonTree Productions, Bowart performs and tours internationally his original works The ShneedlesLaLaLunaLetter’s End and The Man the Sea Saw. The company is a two-time Australian Helpmann Award nominee – in 2010, Letter’s End was nominated in the category of Best Touring Production following a national Australian tour encompassing 70 venues, and in 2012 The Man the Sea Saw was nominated in the category of Best Visual/ Physical Theatre Production. Bowart's productions have been seen in 20 countries worldwide.  Highlights include seasons of LaLaLuna and Letter's End at the London International Mime Festival, the leading festival for contemporary visual theater, and a national tour of France.

"An enchantingly loony dreamscape ... Wolfe Bowart specializes in a magical realism.' - The Australian

 
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GABRIELLA DE BREQUET

Gabriella (Voice Talent) has been seen on The Scoundrel and Scamp stage in Salomé, (Salomé) Mr. Burns (Jenny), The Love Talker (The Red Head), and This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing (Beatrix) and The Little Prince (Ensemble). She has also been seen locally at The Rogue Theatre in Arcadia (Thomasina), Jerusalem (Tanya), Dante’s Purgatorio (Angel), The Bridge of San Luis Rey (Pepita) as well as The Invisible Theatre in Now and Then (Abby). Last season Gabriella worked with Arizona Theatre Company on The Music Man in both Tucson and Phoenix serving as the Youth Supervisor for the child actors. Gabriella is the proud Co-Founder of Taming of the Review, a local female-led community-oriented theatre reviewer collective. For more information visit tamingofthereview.com.

 
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NICOLE DELPRETE

Nicole DelPrete (Voice Talent) is currently a senior studying Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Arizona. Previously, Nicole played Carmen in This Girl Laughs, This Girl Cries, This Girl Does Nothing, Wife in Blood Wedding, and was a member of the ensemble for The Little Prince here at Scoundrel and Scamp. Recent productions she has been a part of would be: Three Sisters (Natasha), Flowers for Algernon (Alice Kinnian), Big Love (Thyona), and The Rimers of Eldritch (Patsy). She also is a part of the Charles Darwin Experience, an improv troupe at University of Arizona. She would like to thank her family and friends for their loving support.

 
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Tiffer Hill

Tiffer Hill (Sound Engineer and Voice Talent) has been the Resident Stage Manager with Scoundrel & Scamp since its first production, when the theatre was a construction site during the day and a rehearsal space at night. He began working in theater as a stagehand at the Gaslight Theatre in 2012 and continued working there for the next five and a half years at the pace of at least eight shows a week, eventually stage managing 21 productions including favorites such as Arizona Smith and the Relic of Doom, Spider-Guy, and Ghostblasters! Tiffer also engineers the weekly podcast You Had Me At Hell No hosted by his best friends Ally and Mel.

Favorites from S&S’s past seasons include Mr Burns: a post-electric play, Oaf, and The Little Prince. Previous sound design credits at S&S include Herman: The Naturalist and Cloud Tectonics. He would like to thank his fiancée Gabriella for her endless love and support, especially during the editing process for this project.

 
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Lance Guzman

Lance Guzman (Voice Talent) is on his 4th season with Scoundrel and Scamp. He played in It Is Magic, The Little Prince, Salome, Mr. Burns: a post-electric play, and Blood Wedding. Other stage works he has been involved in are The University of Arizona productions of This Heart in My Mouth is Called Home, Giants Have Us in Their Books and Mother of Exiles. He has also been seen in The Rogue Theatre productions of Dutchman, Enemy of the People, and Moby Dick. Not only does he act on stage but he also has appeared in film for the University and the New York Film Academy. He is a University of Arizona graduate with a BA in Theatre Arts and a student of the Phil Bennett Theatre Lab. Lance loves making music, boxing training, and studying astronomy.

 

The Scamp Writing Team

Max

Age: 14
Creative Inspirations: Noam Baumbach, Neil Cicierega, Paul Thomas Anderson
Wrote: “The Stolen Book”


Lucy

Age: 9
Creative Inspirations: A TV show called "Just Add Magic" 
Wrote: “The Ingredients Make It All”, "A Pigeon, A Bear, and an Assassin Boss"


Isis

Age: 12
Wrote: “The Elephant and Crow”


Scarlett

Age: 10
Wrote: “The Pigeon and Bear”


Axel

Grade: 9th
Creative Inspirations: Violin, Dance, Filmmaking
Wrote: “The Stolen Book”

Thomas 

Age: 10
Creative Inspirations: Monty Python, Hamilton, Jim Gaffigan, and my aunt Madalyn, who's a comedy writer
Wrote: Ads, “The Vegetarian Alligator”


Henry 

Age: 11
Creative Inspirations: Dungeons & Dragons, My invisible baby dragon.
Wrote: “The Stolen Book” and “ Teenage Diaries of an Elf (Vampire Story)”


Willow

Age: 14
Creative inspirations: Neil Gaiman, M.C. Escher, my family,

Wrote: “Corn”, “The Shadow in the Room”


Sebastian

Age: 12
Creative inspirations: Tabletop Champions Podcast, Dice, RPG’s
Wrote: “Teenage Diaries of an Elf (Vampire Story)” and “The Stolen Book”


Dillon

Age: 11
Creative Inspirations: Writing Radio Plays
Wrote: Ads, “The Vegetarian Alligator”