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From the Sublime to the Ridiculous Tarrytown Resident Albin Sadar Dabbles in it All

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August 6, 2015

| by Dottie Conigliaro |

There’s a really funny guy living in Tarrytown. His name is Albin Sadar, and in addition to being funny, he’s a writer, actor, producer and general Renaissance man. According to Linkedin, he’s “A vital contributor to two Best Show Emmy Award-winning teams as a creative writer and television segment producer.”

In addition, he designed and installed landmarks and logos for a NASCAR-sponsored charity, authored several humor kits for Perseus Books; developed a children’s book series for Simon & Schuster, and created the concept and was project manager for an amusement park ride.

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For the past 15 years, Sadar has been the producer and project manager for Slycraft, where he uses his considerable talents in segment writing and editing, field production, talent coordination, product and prop design, webpage design, and photography. During his busy life, Sadar has produced several “kits” that are vital to our everyday needs. They include The Underwear Repair Kit: Fix it on the Fly, that contains all the essential tools (needle and thread, iron-on patches, safety pins) and instruction manual for underwear repair; another is Mistletoe on the Go: Stick it and Smooch! (a portable mistletoe that attaches to the forehead with a suction cup…), and Grow Your Own 6-Pack: ‘cause Beer Don’t Grow on Trees! (“a dream come true for all the do-it-yourselfers out there who’d rather pluck fresh, cold six-packs from the ground than haul themselves all the way from the beer store.”) The kit comes with six aluminum can tabs to plant as “seeds,” plastic six-pack ring to latch the crops together, shovel for planting, mini beer mug, a plant marker, and a 32-page Olde Beer Farmer’s Almanac, all of which make for a fantastic gift purchase.

Sadar marches to a different drummer. An article in The New York Times describes “The Inspired, the Silly and the Useless” inventions people have come up with. Here’s what they say about him: Albin Sadar of Manhattan, and his friend, Bob Pagani, from Allentown, Pa., have devised Dobermask, an inexpensive way to warn off burglars. ‘’It’s a mask of a Doberman pinscher that you slip on the head of your cat or puppy,’’ Albin explained. ‘’We suggest a little shaving cream around the mouth of the mask, for that foaming-at-the-mouth effect. It comes with a sign you put in the window saying: ‘These Premises Patrolled by Dobermask.’

You can tell already that Sadar has a “far out” sense of humor, especially when it comes to kids. That’s because he is uncle to 22 nieces and nephews, who think it’s always a party when Uncle Albin comes to visit, and he always comes up with some funny stories for their entertainment. He has written and invented goofy and creative books and toys for kids – and for adults! He co-wrote and produced the children’s video, The Chartreuse Goose, and masterminded the hot-air-balloon water tower at NASCAR’s Victory Junction Camp. He is also co-author of Slycraft’s Catalog of Stuff and B.S. Bentley’s Beyond Belief.

On a less frivolous note, Sadar produced and wrote entertainment segments for numerous live and live-to-tape programs. In that connection, he built props, found shoot locations, decided on camera angles, collaborated on logos and special effects, selected background music and worked with the editor to finalize pieces. And, he writes book reviews for The Washington Times.

As an actor., he has played offbeat character roles on BackChat, in pilot episodes of The Imposters and The Right Thing, in a segment of Law & Order SVU, and he played Bill Henderson in Robert Redford’s Quiz Show. Off camera, he has been a stand-up comedian at clubs in New York, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh.

Sadar lived in Manhattan for 33 years before meeting his wife, Anne McKissick. The couple later moved to Tarrytown. Sadar’s new book, Hamster Homes, is available at A Nu Toy Store on Main Street in Tarrytown.

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