Radio Bloomsday 2013 to Feature Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley

For the first time ever, the complete Molly Bloom monologue from James Joyce's Ulysses will be performed live by not one but two actresses, Caraid O'Brien and Bernadette Quigley, as a conversation that Molly has with her younger self. Tune into WBAI (99.5 FM in NYC) or stream at http://wbai.org or KPFK (90.7 in Los Angeles) http://kpfk.org/. Each year, Radio Bloomsday ends its 7 hour nationwide broadcast of James Joyce's Ulysses with the book's final chapter - a two hour passion filled monologue, by the novel's heroine, Molly Bloom.

The Molly Bloom monologue is the most sexually explicit chapter in Ulysses and the reason why the book was so frequently censored. Molly, a soprano, has spent the day in bed with her lover Blazes Boylan while her husband, Leopold Bloom wanders around Dublin. Radio Bloomsday begins their broadcast of Molly Bloom's night time thoughts at 11pm. Throughout the two hour episode, a flood of memories is unleashed as the two Mollys spend the night together, thinking about their life and trying to unravel its mysteries. Despite all the men that have crossed Molly's path, she is her own most faithful companion.

Caraid O'Brien has directed and performed Molly Bloom for Radio Bloomsday each year beginning in 2008. Bernadette Quigley has performed the Molly monologue live at Symphony Space. Her other credits include The Suspect (upcoming), Dream House starring Daniel Craig, Holger Ernst's The House Is Burning, Jim Sheridan's Oscar-nominated In America, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Third Watch, and Kings. Quigley has worked extensively in regional theaters across the U.S. and her New York credits include the National Tour of Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa, having understudied the Tony Award-winning play on Broadway; Staci Swedeen's The Goldman Project (Abingdon Theatre); Marina Carr's Portia Coughlan (Actors Studio); God of Vengeance (Jewish Repertory); and many leading roles at the Irish Arts Center in such plays as Billy Roche's Poor Beast in the Rain & Kenneth Branagh's Public Enemy.

Radio Bloomsday 2013: In Search of a Father broadcasts live this Father's Day, Sunday June 16th from 7 pm to 2am on WBAI and KPFK. The cast includes Alec Baldwin, Aaron Beall, Marie-Louise Bowe, Justin VivIan Bond, Charles Busch, Janet Coleman, Frank Delaney, Paul Dooley, Roma Downey, David Dozer, Anne Enright, Jim Fletcher, Garrison Keillor, Michael Laurence, John Lithgow, Marc Maron, Nick McDonell, Paul Muldoon, John O'Callaghan, Bob Odenkirk, Wallace Shawn, Marc Singer, T. Ryder Smith, Jerry Stiller, Tarab, Kate Valk, Heather Woodbury, Fiona Walsh, Zeroboy and many others. Musicians appearing live on the broadcast include All Ireland button accordion champion, Martin O'Connell, fiddle player Marie-Louise Bowe, singer Eileen Ruby, Steven Antonelli, Ralph Martin, Johnny Coughlan, Brad Maestas and Keith Connolly.

Radio Bloomsday is a seven hour nationwide live broadcast on the Pacifica Radio Network "where artists interpret James Joyce's Ulysses." WBAI and the Pacifica Radio Network have been presenting marathon performances of James Joyce's Ulysses for over 30 years. Since 2008, Radio Bloomsday has been directed by Caraid O'Brien in collaboration with Janet Coleman, WBAI's Arts Director. KPFK in Los Angeles will also carry the broadcast. For daily updates and detailed information on Radio Bloomsday, visit radiobloomsday.blogspot.com. For more information contact 917-348-1001 or email caraidobrien@gmail.com.

Pictured: Caraid O'Brien as Molly Bloom. Photograph by Louie Correia.