Radio Personality Joe Franklin with GIAA President Carlo Fiorletta

Long time radio and television host Joe Franklin, shown here with GIAA president Carlo Fiorletta, attended the Sunday March 8 performance of Cataract:  A Temporary Cat and Iraq (Blindness).  

The show was produced by GIAA secretary/treasurer Mara Lesemann, who wrote A Temporary Cat.  GIAA president Fiorletta directed Cat and acted in both plays; Iraq (Blindness) was written by TONY award winning playwright Mario Fratti and directed by GIAA's Simcha Borenstein.

GIAA's Deb Klaar & Carlo Fiorletta in "The Bad Decade Trade"

GIAA's Deb Klaar and Carlo Fiorletta appeared in Mara Lesemann's The Bad Decade Trade as part of the One Page Play Festival sponsored by John Chatterton's Where Eagles Dare studio.  In the photo at left, cast member Laura Thies is preparing to "kill" them both.