The StoryCorps mobile booth was in Austin recently collecting stories from your fellow central Texans. The Airstream has now left town, but we’re still archiving many of those stories here. Native Austinite Sandy Dochen has worked at IBM since 1999, he was a founder of the Texas Early Childhood and Education Coalition, and he's a board member of KUT. Before all that, though, he was a staff member for legendary Congressman J.J. "Jake" Pickle. Mr. Pickle was the topic of conversation when Sandy sat down with his daughter Katie in the StoryCorps booth earlier this year....
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The world premiere of This Feather House will be staged next month at Casa De Luz. The play is notable for winning the inaugural Wasserstein Prize (named for the late Wendy Wasserstein) for Austin playwright Linda Ramsey, who plays Jackie in this debut production of the work. Dystheatre artistic director Michael Ferstenfeld read the script several years ago and has been wanting to produce it ever since. Once he and Linda found actress Leng Wong, they were ready to put the play on stage. It's a co-production of Dystheatre and LuckyChaos Theater, the Asian-American theater group founded by Wong herself. Ferstenfeld directs the play along with co-director Lindsay McKenna; featured actors include Wong, Ramsey, Cassidy Risien, Steven Alford, Jeff Britt, and Kacy Todd....
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