Career
Ossman"s roles during his Firesign years include George Leroy ("Peorgie") Tirebiter on Don"t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Maine the Pliers and Catherwood in the "Nick Danger" series. In 1973, he recorded the solo album How Time Flys. During the 1980s, he left the Firesign Theatre, primarily to produce programs for National Public Radio.
His latest Otherworld Media Productions include A Thousand Clowns, Through the Looking Glass, and A Taffetas Christmas.
These performances are held at Whidbey Children"s Theater on Whidbey Island, a local theatre where children can come to do plays and workshops. Otherworld Media has also taken on the task of adapting and producing half a dozen screenplays in live radio play format in 2007 and 2008 at the International Mystery s Festival in Owensboro, Kentucky.
Ossman has written a mystery novel, The Ronald Reagan Murder Case: A George Tirebiter Mystery (published by BearManor Media, 2007). In 2008, Bear Manor Media published his memoir, Doctor Firesign"s Follies: Radio, Comedy, Mystery, History.
Stage versions of Don"t Crush That Dwarf, Hand Maine The Pliers.
The Further Adventures of Nick Danger, Third Eye. And Waiting Foreign The Electrician, or Someone Like Him & Temporarily Humboldt County are published Broadway Play Publishing Incorporated.