The HEAR Now PODCAST PALOOZA 2017!
Welcome to the 2017 HEAR Now PODCAST PALOOZA!
Gold Listening
The HEAR Now Festival is happy to present a variety of audio performances from around the U.S. and the world.
This page represents those artists whose works the judges admired, but were not heard this year at the Cinemark Theater on the Plaza.
The Festival's panel of judges agreed these works were also among the best submitted this year.
Be sure to click on the link for each program so you can learn more about our featured artists.
These programs will be available until August 1, 2017 for you to enjoy.
And be sure to watch for the 2018 HEAR Now Festival Submission Information.
You might be selected to be showcased in one of our listening theaters or in next year's HEAR Now Podcast Palooza!
Happy Listening - The 2017 HEAR Now Festival.
Gold Listening
The HEAR Now Festival is happy to present a variety of audio performances from around the U.S. and the world.
This page represents those artists whose works the judges admired, but were not heard this year at the Cinemark Theater on the Plaza.
The Festival's panel of judges agreed these works were also among the best submitted this year.
Be sure to click on the link for each program so you can learn more about our featured artists.
These programs will be available until August 1, 2017 for you to enjoy.
And be sure to watch for the 2018 HEAR Now Festival Submission Information.
You might be selected to be showcased in one of our listening theaters or in next year's HEAR Now Podcast Palooza!
Happy Listening - The 2017 HEAR Now Festival.
The Golden Apple of Discord
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A story about the troubles caused by a slighted goddess who uses a golden apple to avenge herself when she was kept out of a feast.
Cast list: Narrator: Andrew Whitby PRIAM - Matt "Olaf" Hinton HECUBA - Thierry Barston AESACUS - Kjatar Tavishen AGELAUS - Don Davenport ERIS - Morgan Hazelwood PARIS - Chris G ARES - Scooter APHRODITE - LJ Donnell ATHENA - Sara Davenport HERA - Thierry Barston ZEUS - Kjatar Tavishen HERMES - Scooter KING MENELAUS - Matt "Olaf" Hinton Anansi Storytime presents stories from around the world in the style of mid-20th century radio programs. We primarily focus on fairytales, folklore, and tall tales. |
Anything Helps
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A homeless woman tries to reconnect with her daughter while a serial killer is on the streets.
Cast list: THE CAST: Amber Bryant ... LOUISE Johnny Bryant ... RUBEN Elisa Annette ... AMBER Kyle Sessions ... MANAGER Ben Vail ... OFFICER PEÑA Eric Koch ... DETECTIVE Miranda Moore ... ADDITIONAL VOICES Logan Hill ... ADDITIONAL VOICES Jon Holland ... ADDITIONAL VOICES SCRIPT EDITOR: Logan Hill WRITTEN & DIRECTED BY: Jon Holland & Logan Hill The Theater in Your Mind is an audio anthology series created by Jon Holland. |
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Companions
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A sci-fi love story in which solitary commanders of isolated space stations use technology to combat their loneliness, and find themselves confronting a threat to human survival.
Cast list: Phranque Wright Stacey Tappan Wesley James Amelia Finefrock Joe Page Courtney Abbott Bob J. Koester, aka Hamletseries, makes projects using local Chicago actors with the help of Kickstarter. He is currently working on a six-episode science fiction thriller series called Immunities. |
Deck The Halls
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A young wedding planner discovers that her new mystery suitor might be the groom of her company’s biggest wedding. She and her best friend go to outlandish lengths to put off his romantic advances... until they discover they've mistaken his identity.
Cast list: Paula Deming as Emma Keiko Agena as Jackie Ian McQuown as Trip Kyle Payne as Stu Jessica Payne as Katie Jesse Abbott Chen and Kacie Rogers as the Greek Chorus Nik Shriner as The Turkey Sassquach Radio is the co-venture of Ashley Quach and Paula Deming. The team produces modern romantic tales with old fashioned Hollywood radio techniques. |
Grants Over Death*
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A washed-up Near-Death Studies investigator devises a method to send a student volunteer beyond the tunnel of light, past death's door and into its living room. The wary volunteer discovers that the afterlife is all hell. The President becomes involved, and thus is born the Grants Over Death (G.O.D.), a government program to conquer death.
Cast list: “Kid” Richard-Undergraduate, looking to get paid for a college research experiment. “Doc” Rodenberry-Nearly washed-up expert in near death studies at the university. Rabbi Shoen-about doc’s age. Announcer-For launch of spacecraft. Narrator Playwright has four plays that have been publicly performed, is a New York Times contributor of the viral pieces, "Men Who Needs Them?,'" and "When May I Shoot a Student?" The company of players is Radio Boise's Radio Theater group of volunteer actors. |
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Heretica - The Night Keep
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Heretica is a Gothic Horror Symphony. Grandiose and epic at moments, dire and sinister in others. Heretica tells the tale of a man's quest for vengeance and absolution, but is his journey ascendant, or a descent?
Cast list: Joshua Gouge as Pius Acanthio J. D. Cadden as Cardinal Callidimates Valgus Holden Strianese as Inquisitor Iustus William Sears as Inquisitor Federic James Ramsey as Prison Keeper Jonathon Edenfield as Flavius J. Daniel Edenfield as Lord Inquisitor The Night Keep - Cinematic Audio Horror For more information, please visit nightkeep.com |
King's Drive
Meet Cheryl King, world famous pop star who rose to fame after winning first place in a national competition. Currently touring the east coast and hating to fly, Ms. King's driver takes her everywhere. But when he falls ill, a new driver steps in to take his place, one with his own agenda...
Cast list:
Nancy Situ as Cheryl King
Toxic Proxy as Vic Morrison
Corey Levier as Damon Smithee
Angel Mykhelle Flaviano as Music News Reporter
Directed, Produced, Written, Edited, and Mixed by:
Seth Bramwell
My pen name is Seth Bramwell. I head Room 503 Productions. I write both fan fiction and original audio productions, as well as produce and mix them, with the occasional appearance in the work of others. I hope you enjoy my work!
Cast list:
Nancy Situ as Cheryl King
Toxic Proxy as Vic Morrison
Corey Levier as Damon Smithee
Angel Mykhelle Flaviano as Music News Reporter
Directed, Produced, Written, Edited, and Mixed by:
Seth Bramwell
My pen name is Seth Bramwell. I head Room 503 Productions. I write both fan fiction and original audio productions, as well as produce and mix them, with the occasional appearance in the work of others. I hope you enjoy my work!
Oblivion
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Oblivion is a thirty-minute crime/mystery radio drama revolving around three band members whose upcoming performance in the finals of the "Battle of the Bands" will determine their futures. When their conflicts escalate and the drummer is found dead in front of the band's rehearsing space, evidence leads the Detective to a one of the band members as a leading suspect in the murder case. However, the drummer's sister receives CD with an explanation of the events that transpired. Now, it is on her to determine whether or not the truth will be revealed.
Cast list: Axe: Sy Ozcan Theo: Cameron Daxon Skyler: Lori Hauser Detective Sinclair: Wendy Hovland Officer Swanson: Loren Kling Anna: Mara Sushter Lefkowitz Judge Ross: Thomas Eichhorn Coroner, Mailman:Alek Darson Russian Waitress: Ivana Darson Ivana Darson is a screenwriter and producer. Her work strives to share a female perspective of everyday life struggles, relying equally on both sounds and images. She currently lives in Los Angeles, where she is developing a pilot script for a new original series called “Five Bald Women” and also co-writing/producing two short indie films. |
Rainbow Magic Kittens
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Young Treve wants a very special pet- a Rainbow Magic Kitten. But it may come with a price he's not able to meet.
Written and produced by: Nicole Greevy Cast list: Xander Crowell as Treve, Nicole Greevy as Jennifer, and Tom Bartos as Mr. Thompson, the Store Owner, along with the vocal talents of Damien Buzzerio, Shelle Davis, Ruth Weber, Jenny Kirlin, Matthew Hammond, Alison Crane, and Todd Faulkner. Original music by Ruth Weber, guitar accompaniment by Thomas Crowell. Uncanny County is a horror/comedy/sci-fi anthology series. Rainbow Magic Kittens was the seventh episode of the first season. |
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Secret Of Spring Heel'd Jack
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It has all lead to this, and here, it ends.
With the fate of the world hanging in the balance, Jonah Smith must fight to fulfil his destiny and finally discover the secret of Springheel’d Jack. But as his ruthless adversaries close in, who shall become… the Lords of the World? The epic, final episode of Wireless Theatre’s flagship series, The Springheel Saga, which brings to an end a six year cinematic audio drama experience for its listeners... Cast list: Starring: Christopher Finney, Andrew Shepherd, Jonathan Hansler, Ben Whitehead, Tom Slatter, Matthew Woodcock, Silas Hawkins, with Jenny Runacre, David Benson, Jeremy Stockwell, Nicholas Parsons, Matthew Kelly, Shane Rimmer and Katy Manning. Additional Series Vocals: Grace Bishop, Jonathan Broke, Jack Bowman, Marie Fortune and Steve Spence. The Wireless Theatre Company is designed to bring full-blooded audio drama and comedy to the iTunes Generation, giving a voice to new writers, performers and directors to keep audio drama alive in the 21st Century. |
Shayna
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Shayna… a New York story caught between two worlds
An audio drama in three acts / Podcast by Lost & Found Project. Lost & Found Project explores a new direction with a new audio drama - “Shayna”, which examines the journey of a young singer-songwriter in New York who can’t catch a break. She is estranged from her brother and ailing mother, stuck in dead-end relationships, and stalled creatively. But when a beautiful, haunting melody lodges itself in Shayna's mind, it unearths a family mystery and a century-old injustice that only Shayna can make right. What is Shayna's connection to the dybbuk of Jewish folklore? Where has her mother disappeared to? What happened between two sisters in a Russian shtetl at the dawn of the twentieth century? And why is Shayna harassed by an online stalker? “Shayna” is partially based on personal stories of actors of the Lost & Found Project. Cast list: The audio drama is written by: Boris Zilberman (writer, actor, and comedian, a founding member of Lost & Found Project) & Ilya Khodosh (Lost & Found Project’s writer, doctoral student and writing fellow at the Yale School of Drama) Sound designed & edited: Alex Ryaboy Curated by: Anya Zicer (Founder / Curation Lost & Found Project and Managing Director of National Yiddish Theatre’s Folksbiene RU) Starring: Masha King ( Girls , 2012, Madam Secretary , 2014 and The Videoblogs , 2016), Yelena Shmulenson ( Orange Is the New Black (TV Series), A Serious Man , 2009, The Good Shepherd , 2006, Blindsided , 2010) , Anya Zicer, Elena V. Levenson, Boris Zilberman, Ilya Khodosh, Sergey Nagorny, Stuart Williams, Ruslan Verkhovsky, Alya Adelman Lost & Found Project is the young docu-theatre division of the 102-year old Folksbiene Theatre, an award-winning troupe, founded in 2011 as a multi-faceted theatre experience by a group of young Russian Jewish NYC-based actors and writers. The experimental docu-theatre troupe creates original stage productions based on the Verbatim technique. |
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Snow White
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In this classic tale of good and evil, Snow White is pursued by a revengeful Queen who is jealous of her natural beauty and goodness. When the Queen learns of Snow White’s hiding place with the Dwarfs in the woods, she prepares a plan to poison her with an apple. Join Snow White as she journeys into the world of the Evil Queen, Udo the Huntsman, the Magic Mirror, the Prince, Deidre the Dove, Albrecht the Owl, and the Deep Dark Woods. Directed by Laura Van Veen and featuring Georgia Lee Schultz as Snow White and Mary Ellen Herder as the Evil Queen, this dramatized version features a full cast of characters, music, and sound effects. Adapted for audio by Diane Vanden Hoven.
Cast list: Also featuring MICHAEL DICK as Albrecht the Owl / Narrator, KEITH BURNETT as King Kaspar, NOELLE DUPUIS as Queen Rosalinde, BRADY VAN VAERENBERGH as Ragnar the Raven, JAN WALKER-HOLT as the Magic Mirror, AISLYN KING as Deidre the Dove, JAMES HEBBLETHWAITE as Udo the Huntsman, OLIVER GEORGIOU as the Prince and Keith Burnett, Bill Tye and David Farquhar as the Dwarfs. VOICES IN THE WIND AUDIO THEATRE http://www.voicesinthewind.ca/ SNOW WHITE http://www.voicesinthewind.ca/snow-white-childrens-full-cast/ |
The Boy Who Cried Martian
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In 1938, Orson Welles terrified the nation with a false tale of a Martian invasion. One year later, after being all but driven from the industry, Orson is back on the air and about to face the most challenging broadcast OF HIS LIFE!
Written by Todd Faulkner. Cast list: Featuring Andrew Kaempfer as Orson Welles, along with the vocal talents of Jeffry Denman, Erica Knight, Babs Winn, Dan Truman, Spencer Aste, R. David Robinson, William Franke, Tom Bartos, Nicole Greevy, Alison Crane, and Todd Faulkner. Information on you and/or your company: Uncanny County is an ongoing, sci-fi/horror anthology series of original audio dramas. Offbeat, quirky, black comedy - think Twilight Zone or Twin Peaks by way of the Coen Brothers. |
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The Kings Child
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How far would you go for the you love...
Cast list: Our Cast includes: Eric Robinson as Randall JR Rodriguez as The King Denise Bass as the Queen/Tzigane Stuart Dennings as Solenger Michael Brady as Phillip Robin Dale Robertson as the Money Lender Steve Vernon as the Magistrate Kyle Davis as the Peasant Ensemble Audio Studios became a reality in 2016 after it's founders finished a full cast audiobook that had taken them on a 3 year journey. Having both come from the film industry, co-founders Scott Davis and Richard Sirianni had spent decades telling many stories. The challenge now is, "What does a sunset sound like?" |
The Shill Trilogy
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Struggling actress Jane Innes is seduced by a handsome new arrival in her acting class. He makes a proposition. He admits he’s a con man and needs Jane to pose as a rich, carefree heiress to fulfill her part in his intricate scam. All goes as planned until Jane’s true identity threatens to surface and their scheme begins to crack at the seams. It all leads to a tangled maze of deception, depravity and murder.
Cast list: Audiobook read by Kera O'Bryon Shamus Award-winning author. Writer/director of TV movies. Produced and edited THE SHILL TRILOGY audiobook from my series of crime novellas. Released Dec 20, 2016. |
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Theatre Of War
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Spring 1522. Niklaus Manuel, a draftsman, painter and mercenary from Berne, had witnessed how the Swiss mercenaries were defeated in northern Italy and mercilessly driven into the mud by the victors. After his return to Berne, Manuel strikes back and writes satirical verses (songs), which aim to hit below the belt. His anger is hot, his lust to fight, great. He later assists the arrival of the Reformation in the city of Berne and writes theatrical pieces which attack the pomp of the Pope and praise the poverty of Christ. His mouthpiece is a clever peasant, who won’t be silenced by anything.
Cast list: Text: Hildegard Keller Translation: Julia Karin Lawson Narrator: Richard Fish Rudy Birdnest: Richard Fish Production: Hildegard Keller Sounddesign: Sibin Vassilev www.hildegardkeller.ch www.hildegardkeller.com (soon) |
Treasure Island
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The classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale of piracy, buried treasure, and adventure on the high seas. Adapted by Brad Strickland, Directed by Claire Christie, Produced by David Benedict.
Cast list: Angele Masters Bernard Setaro Clark Brad Strickland Joe Ravenson Adam Lowe Katelyn Laird Bob Brown Jeremiah Kulani Prescott Atlanta Radio Theatre Company has been producing and performing multi-cast, fully soundscaped audio drama since 1984, spanning a wide variety of genres and topics, but specializing in horror, science fiction, and fantasy. |
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Zombie Bigfoot
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A horror spoof full of adventure and science fiction elements, Zombie Bigfoot is packed with colorful characters, outlandish situations, and madcap mayhem.
The truth is out there... and it will eat your face. Cast list: Nick Sullivan First time author, longtime audiobook narrator and actor. In addition to working on Broadway and on many television shows and films, Nick Sullivan has narrated over 400 audiobooks over the last twenty years, winning numerous Earphones and several Audie awards and nominations; he has recorded "Zombie Bigfoot" himself. Published by Wild Yonder Press. |