Erik Bauersfeld

Professional Experience

• Director of Drama and Literature, Pacifica KPFA, Berkeley, California (1962-1991)
• Director of Special Projects, Pacifica KPFA, Berkeley, California (1991-2004)
• President and Director of Projects, Bay Area Radio Drama (1986-2004)

Recent Productions

• “Locations 1,” funded by the National Endowment for the Arts; “Locations 2,” funded by the Creative Work Fund. Two series of original works based on and recorded at specific acoustical Bay Area locations with writers Helen Cline, Ellen Sebastian, John O’Keefe, Ed Bullins, Millicent Dillon, Irene Oppenheim, Gary Soto, Millicent Dillon, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Randy Thom (Co-produced with WDR Köln.

Other Selected Productions

• The Eugene O’Neill Radio Project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Executive director, Erik Bauersfeld. The plays were directed by José Quintero with commentaries by Travis Bogard and broadcast nationally by National Public Radio. Several were selected for international broadcast by the BBC London, WDR Köln, and Australian Radio. Included were O’Neill’s four one-act sea plays (S.S. Glencairn); Hughie (with its original cast, Jason Robards and Jack Dodson); The Emperor Jones (with Joe Morton), and The Hairy Ape (George Dzundza). Sound design was by Randy Thom. A final program, O’Neill’s Lazarus Laughed, the first full-length production of the play was directed by American Conservatory Theatre director Ed Hastings with sound design by Jim Mckee (Earwax Studios) and Barney Jones as Chorus Director. The music was written and directed by Lou Harrison. (1987-1995)
• Hörspiel/USA Project: in collaboration with WDR Klön, The Goethe Institute, and KPFA-FM Pacifica Radio, BARD produced seven modern radio dramas translated by Robert Goss, including: Houses, Jurgen Becker; Ophelia, Gerhard Ruhm (directed by Klaus Schöning); Centropolis, Walter Adler; The Other and I, Gunter Eich. Sound design for the plays by Jim Mckee. (1987-1991)
• BARD series, including The Horla, adapted by Guy de Maupassant story (sound by Jim Mckee); and Object Piece, Drury Pifer (sound by Randy Thom) (1992)
• “Art on Film Conference” (Metropolitan and Getty Museums) Moderated panel on sound in relation to art (1991)
• “PrixItalia,” represented National Public Radio, President of Radio Drama Jury, Perugia, Italy (1990)
• European Broadcasting Union, represented NPR at conference, Florence, Italy (1990, 1987)
• Sound Design Conference, In association with Randy Thom and Lucasfilm’s Skywalker Sound Studios presented a conference for 50 American radio producers (1989)
• “Mind’s Eye Theatre,” contributed to many productions, including a three hour version of Dracula by Bram Stoker (1988)
• Babbitt, 29 half-hour installments of Sinclair Lewis’s novel, performed by the Los Angeles Theatre Works for KCRW-FM in Santa Monica; editing and sound production with Jim Mckee, Earwax Productions (1987)
• “Tales from the Shadows,” in collaboration with Jim Mckee and Earwax Studios, adapted and produced a series of 13 bizarre classics by Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Poe, Lovecraft, Kafka, Bierce, and others for KCRW-FM in Santa Monica and others; distributed by NPR and Pacifica (1987)