Claudia Catania

Founder and Consulting Director

In 2010, Claudia founded Playing on Air (POA) to supplement a theater lover’s habit, and to cultivate newcomers. By recording unassailable shorts with stellar actors, directors and composers, and distributing them on public radio and newer technologies, an easy to access platform for theater was born. By June of 2012, POA recordings aired on 13 public radio stations. Pulitzer-winning playwright David Auburn compared Playing on Air’s recording sessions to pick-up basketball games, only with NBA players. Claudia conversed with each short’s artists about what just went down, and included that conversation with the play’s release. In 2015, PoA launched its podcast. In 2017, with the help of visionary donors, it began commissioning short plays. It now offers listeners everywhere over 135 recordings, plus customized curriculums for educators and their students. All for free, and on demand.