Slovic with Dustin Hoffman, and The Man with the Golden Arm at the Cherry Lane, among other New York productions. When he went into the army in 1956, he started a theater at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In 1960, he took over the role of the warden in the legendary off Broadway production of Threepenny Opera with Lotte Lenya. Over the next two years, he played a variety of roles in the show, also acting as assistant stage manager.
In 1963, he began working at WBAI, one of the nation first listener-sponsored, non-commercial stations, operated by the Pacifica Foundation. Novelist and poet Richard Elman, a friend of Fass from high school, who was producing programs for the station Drama & Literature Department, helped Foss get a job as an announcer. He then was given the midnight to dawn time block to use as he wished. Jay Sand, The Radio Waves Unnameable, writes e had