HEAR Now Festival 2018
Photos, programs, and sounds albums for the 2018 HEAR Now Festival held on June 7-10, 2018.
ShakesRumble
More than 400 years after they were first quilled, the plays and poems of William Shakespeare are part of the fabric of our literary and performance culture, ranging from movies to plays to coffee mugs to memes. This is all the more of a phenomenon considering that originally, the only way to witness these stories was in person, being directly addressed by the original company themselves. As part of the HEAR Now Festival's continuing celebration and exploration of how the spoken words of William Shakespeare reach us, through means both classic and modern, we are getting back to that Direct Address...and then, to paraphrase a bit, we shalt prepare to Rumble...! ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
Julia Whelan vs Scott Brick
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PJ Ochlan vs Delaney Cinnamon
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PJ Ochlan vs Julia Whelan
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PJ Ochlan vs Julia Whelan - Round 2
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Winner PJ Ochlan accepts The Bardy
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Neil Hellegers (Director & Ring Master)
Neil is a narrator, actor, and educator who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He has narrated numerous audiobooks, with a focus in speculative fiction and non-, as well as lent voice to various video games and commercials. Recent on-camera work includes roles on CBS's Madam Secretary, Netflix's House of Cards, and NBC's Law & Order: SVU. Neil has performed Shakespeare nationally and internationally, and has directed and taught said Bard to actors of all ages. He has a BA from the University of Pennsylvania in theater arts and psychology, and a MFA in acting from Trinity Rep Conservatory. |
Scott Brick (Golden Voice)
Scott Brick has recorded bestsellers and Pulitzer-Prize winners in every conceivable category, over 850 titles, including JURASSIC PARK, PATRIOT GAMES, IN COLD BLOOD and HELTER SKELTER, since his debut in 1999. A Grammy nominee, Scott has won over 50 Earphones Awards, five Audie Awards, and has twice been named Publishers Weekly’s Narrator of the Year. After AudioFile Magazine proclaimed him a Golden Voice, his work was thereafter profiled in THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, THE NEW YORK TIMES, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES and ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY. In 2015 Scott began teaching the nation’s first fully-accredited university course devoted solely to audiobook narration at UCLA, and in 2017 Scott became an inaugural member of Audible’s Hall of Fame. |
Tavia Gilbert
Winner of the 2017 Best Female Narrator Audie Award, Tavia is a producer, writer, and acclaimed narrator of more than 500 full-cast and multi-voice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry. She is a nine-time Audie nominee, three-time nominee and one-time winner of Voice Arts Awards, and the recipient of seventeen Earphones Awards, a ListenUp Award, and three Parent's Choice Awards. Tavia is a trusted and sought-after actress for work across every genre, from children's and YA, to literary fiction, non-fiction, and genre fiction. Audible named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir, and Library Journal has written of this highly-acclaimed actress that she is "as close as you can get to a full cast narration with a solo voice." |
Robin Miles (Golden Voice)
Known for great accents and emotional nuance, narrator Robin Miles brings words to life. A veteran of Broadway, classical plays, TV/film, and museum exhibitions, with 300+ Audiobook titles, she is the 2014 ALA Voice of Choice, an Audiofile Magazine Golden Voice and Grammy finalist (directing), with multiple awards (Audies, Best of the Year), Earphones). She was asstistant professor of Speech, teaching Shakespeare and Greek theater at SUNY Purchase Theater Conservatory, and has taught workshops and seminars at UC San Diego, U of MN (Duluth), Yale Drama School, and Denver Center Theater School. Robin owns Voxpertise® training & production studio. She graduated from Yale University and the Yale School of Drama. |
PJ Ochlan
An Audie Award winner, multiple Earphones Award winner, and Voice Arts Award nominee, P.J. Ochlan's work behind the microphone began in 1987 as a young voice actor with many commercials and promos. Since then he has lent his diverse talents to virtually every voiceover genre. Most notably, he is a widely acclaimed and record-setting audiobook narrator with hundreds of fiction and non-fiction titles to his credit. P.J.'s voice work is enhanced by his mastery of accents, distinctive characters and versatility, as well as his proficiency with English, French, Italian, German and Mandarin. He is also the founder of Dr. Dialect and co-founder of the Deyan Institute of Voice Artistry. |
Julia Whelan
Julia has appeared in many films and television series, including ABC’s Once And Again. After receiving a degree in English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College and Oxford University, Julia began narrating audiobooks. She has since recorded hundreds of novels and been awarded Earphone and Audie Awards, and been named one of Audiofile Magazine’s Best Voices and Audible's Narrator of the Year. |
Delaney Cinnamon
Delaney took to the stage for the first time in kindergarten and has never looked back. She has appeared in dozens of theatrical performances, excelling in character roles where she can become immersed in a particular persona and adopt the accents, mannerisms and speech patterns to bring that character to life. Local community theater credits include Our Town, Little Mermaid, Meet Me in St. Louis and Gypsy at Clear Space Theatre in Rehoboth Beach, DE; White Christmas, Twelfth Night, Bye Bye Birdie, and Much Ado About Nothing with the Possum Point Players in Georgetown, DE and the Wizard of Oz at the Riverfront Theater in Milford, DE. |
Samantha Desz
I grew up in Cleveland, OH but have called New York City my home for nearly 20 years. I recently relocated to Kansas City, MO and now split my time between KCMO and NYC. I studied acting and pre-med in university (yes, you can do that) and despite the good grades and everything else, I decided to scrap medical school for a life in the arts. I dove in and never looked back! I studied in an acting conservatory in London, England, was a proud member of the Acting Apprentice Company at Actors Theatre of Louisville, made a few other pit stops along the way, and finally landed in NYC. I quickly fell into the arts community, pursued an acting career, founded a theatre company (which I ran for 10 years), and worked for a corporate production company (whew!). I found Voice Acting pretty early on but didn't transition into pursuing it full time right away. As I worked more and more as a Producer, I realized Voice Acting fit me like a glove, both creatively and professionally. It became, and still is, the perfect symbiotic artistic relationship – I get to tell stories and create characters AND I get to make things happen! |
Donna Postal
Donna is a full-time voice actress who is passionate about audiobooks. She has recorded more than two hundred hours of stories in a variety of genres. She is fascinated by all kinds of stories and loves telling them. From memoir and biography to literary fiction, romance, mystery, and suspense, Donna uses her innate curiosity, talent, and decades of experience on stage and in the recording studio to bring books to life. |
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