Bayou Radio has produced short stage plays since 2000 and has earned many honors including Best of the Week or Best of the Fest citations at Frontera Fest, a Best Video Design nomination from the Austin Critics Table, and mentions in several end-of-the-year Top Ten lists in The Austin Chronicle. Our productions include "33", A Hill of Beans, One Small Step, Like Mother Used to Make, Postal, Standing Room Only, Oversimplification, and Final Performance. In 2002, Bayou Radio teamed up with Refraction Arts and produced a collection of 14 short plays written by Lowell Bartholomee under the title blah, blah, blah at The Blue Theater. The show drew sold-out houses and was called "cool and funny" by Austin critics.

Today we are looking at a year filled with new challenges. Some of this we do for others. Sometimes we do it just for fun. But either way we approach our work with the same dedication and energy, committed to creating the very best.

Keep an eye out for our work. Or just contact us and we'll tell you ourselves.

Bayou Radio Productions is a loose and ever-expanding affiliation of artists, actors, and technicians that are centered around our core of visual artists.

Lowell Bartholomee
(producer/writer/director)

Lowell Bartholomee is a graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he majored in film production. His post-college wandering eventually brought him to Austin, Texas, where he was seduced by the city’s theater community and founded Bayou Radio Productions. He has had the great fortune to work in various capacities for several Austin theater companies. As an actor, he has performed with Refraction Arts (The Moon in Jose Rivera’s REFERENCES TO SALVADOR DALI MAKE ME HOT, various roles in Cyndi Williams’ FLAWED, August in Ron Berry’s ORANGE), Austin Shakespeare Festival (Flute/Thisbe in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, Sir Toby in 12TH NIGHT), Salvage Vanguard Theatre (Man in Dan Dietz’s TEMPODYSSEY), Rude Mechanicals (various roles in 300 PLAYS ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN), the dirigo group (Saul in TRUE WEST, Young Man in Neil LaBute’s BASH), and several others. He has written (and usually directed) several short pieces that have been produced for Frontera Fest, Austin Script Works, Rude Mechanicals, Bayou Radio Productions, and Salvage Vanguard Theater. His first full-length play, THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, was produced in Austin last year by the dirigo group, for which he is a Co-Artistic Director. He directed the original production of BLAH, BLAH, BLAH in 2002, Lee Eddy’s THE LADEE LEROY SHOW, THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, and Neil LaBute’s THE MERCY SEAT. He has been nominated for numerous Austin Critics Table Awards for acting and video design, and was awarded Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy for TEMPODYSSEY in 2004. He is a recipient of the B. Iden Payne Theater Industry Award (which is entirely unknown beyond a five mile radius of Austin) for his work in A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. His short play “Bob’s Birthday” (which is included in BLAH, BLAH, BLAH) was a finalist for the 2004 Heideman Award at the Humana Ten-Minute Play Festival this year. Recently, Lowell has appeared as X in Steve Moore's brilliant play nightswim, Ron Berry's Up In the Old Hotel, and provided video design for Steve Tomlinson's American Fiesta.

Robert S. Fisher
(producer/audio engineer/sound designer)

Robert S. Fisher (Cast) has been involved in the arts with a particular focus on theatre and music for over fifteen years. He has contributed his abilities as an actor, sound designer, director, and whatever else was needed at the time to hundreds of productions. Robert attended the University of Southern Mississippi where he majored in theatre performance with a special study in sound design before coming home to Texas. In Austin since 1997, Robert is currently a company member of Rude Mechanicals whose innovative work, which includes LIPSTICK TRACES, REQUIEM FOR TESLA, and HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE, has earned them critical praise and international attention. Robert recently made his directorial debut for the Rude Mechs with 300 PLAYS ABOUT VLADIMIR PUTIN. He also serves as a member of the dirigo group, Bayou Radio Productions, Subterranean Theatre Company, and Hyde Park Theatre (for whom he is the resident sound designer.) He has also worked extensively with the Austin based art and theater company Refraction Arts Project. He has been nominated numerous times for his work by the Austin Critics Table and Austin Circle of Theatres, recently nabbing Best Sound Design for his experimental work on HOW LATE IT WAS, HOW LATE.