Workshops 101
Workshop 101 is a three and a half day crash course in audio theater.
WORKSHOP 101 Presented
The Dramatic Podcast: Performance & Production
at The 2019 HEAR Now Festival
Workshop 101 is a crash course in audio theater. In three and a half days, HEAR Now's instructors take participants through the basics of writing, directing, producing and performing audio theater works. Participants review a script that will be performed, directed and acted by the Workshop 101 participants and enjoyed by all on the final day of the festival. Participants get the opportunity to interact with their accomplished teachers while also getting to meet many professionals throughout the field, who can become valued contacts.
2019's Workshop 101 performance and production samples:
Here are samples of 2018's Workshop 101 original works:
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2019 Workshop 101 Faculty
Kc Wayland, 2018 Workshop 101 Leader
Kc Wayland - Lead Faculty
KC has carried within him a passion for the creative arts from a young age. As a teenager, he earned the Award of Excellence in Arts and Best Student Editor and graduated with top honors from Orange High School Media Arts program for Acting and Film Theory, earning the Principal's Medallion. Upon graduating, he was awarded an academic scholarship to attend Chapman University's School of Film and Television.
In January of 2002, Wayland enlisted in the United States Army, taking a leave of absence from Chapman. He received two certifications in broadcast engineering and was awarded both Top Graduate and Distinguished Honor Graduate. He returned to Chapman in 2003, but was deployed to Iraq midway through his first semester. From 2003 to 2004, Wayland served with the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment in the heart of Baghdad. His service earned him a nomination for a Bronze Star for meritorious service. During his time overseas, Wayland filmed his personal experience that would later become the feature-length documentary "365 Boots on Ground."
Wayland returned to Chapman within a month of active combat. During this adjustment period back to civilian life, he focused his energy on completing "365 Boots on Ground." The documentary would go on to earn several awards, including: Best Documentary at Chapman 2005, Best Student Documentary at the Bear Bear Film Festival, and Best Student Film at the Tiberon International Film Festival. He graduated from Chapman in 2008 as valedictorian of his class.
While teaching film production at Costa Mesa High School and Coastline ROP, he began writing what would later become "We're Alive: A Story of Survival." What started off as a means of coping with his military experience, "We're Alive" evolved into a wildly successful and revolutionary zombie audio drama. Wayland acted as lead writer/editor/director/producer of "We're Alive" on each of the 48 episodes from 2009 to 2014. The rise of "We're Alive" coincided with the booming popularity of podcasts and zombie culture, standing out for its gritty urban realism and focus "theatre for the mind" audio techniques. Its success earned the show a place within the Nerdist Podcast Network, garnering over 50 million downloads in the course of its run. The series was also nominated for and Audie by the Audio Producers Association, and was in iTunes Best of 2012.
A sequel of sorts to "We're Alive: A Story of Survival" entitled "We're Alive: Lockdown" was successfully funded via Kickstarter in July of 2015 raising over $55,000 for the production, and was released in April 2016 to rave reviews.
Following the success of "We're Alive," Wayland signed with the Paradigm Talent Agency in February of 2016, and began working on the 10-part audio-theater series, "Bronzeville" starring Laurence Fishburne and Larenz Tate, to name a few from the all-star cast and debuted in the Top 10 on iTunes. Kc Wayland continues to strive towards expanding the audio-drama industry and helping others understand and build on the new art wave that is "Theater for the Mind".
KC has carried within him a passion for the creative arts from a young age. As a teenager, he earned the Award of Excellence in Arts and Best Student Editor and graduated with top honors from Orange High School Media Arts program for Acting and Film Theory, earning the Principal's Medallion. Upon graduating, he was awarded an academic scholarship to attend Chapman University's School of Film and Television.
In January of 2002, Wayland enlisted in the United States Army, taking a leave of absence from Chapman. He received two certifications in broadcast engineering and was awarded both Top Graduate and Distinguished Honor Graduate. He returned to Chapman in 2003, but was deployed to Iraq midway through his first semester. From 2003 to 2004, Wayland served with the 222nd Broadcast Operations Detachment in the heart of Baghdad. His service earned him a nomination for a Bronze Star for meritorious service. During his time overseas, Wayland filmed his personal experience that would later become the feature-length documentary "365 Boots on Ground."
Wayland returned to Chapman within a month of active combat. During this adjustment period back to civilian life, he focused his energy on completing "365 Boots on Ground." The documentary would go on to earn several awards, including: Best Documentary at Chapman 2005, Best Student Documentary at the Bear Bear Film Festival, and Best Student Film at the Tiberon International Film Festival. He graduated from Chapman in 2008 as valedictorian of his class.
While teaching film production at Costa Mesa High School and Coastline ROP, he began writing what would later become "We're Alive: A Story of Survival." What started off as a means of coping with his military experience, "We're Alive" evolved into a wildly successful and revolutionary zombie audio drama. Wayland acted as lead writer/editor/director/producer of "We're Alive" on each of the 48 episodes from 2009 to 2014. The rise of "We're Alive" coincided with the booming popularity of podcasts and zombie culture, standing out for its gritty urban realism and focus "theatre for the mind" audio techniques. Its success earned the show a place within the Nerdist Podcast Network, garnering over 50 million downloads in the course of its run. The series was also nominated for and Audie by the Audio Producers Association, and was in iTunes Best of 2012.
A sequel of sorts to "We're Alive: A Story of Survival" entitled "We're Alive: Lockdown" was successfully funded via Kickstarter in July of 2015 raising over $55,000 for the production, and was released in April 2016 to rave reviews.
Following the success of "We're Alive," Wayland signed with the Paradigm Talent Agency in February of 2016, and began working on the 10-part audio-theater series, "Bronzeville" starring Laurence Fishburne and Larenz Tate, to name a few from the all-star cast and debuted in the Top 10 on iTunes. Kc Wayland continues to strive towards expanding the audio-drama industry and helping others understand and build on the new art wave that is "Theater for the Mind".
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Phil Proctor - Performance
Philip Proctor (born July 28, 1940) is an American actor, voice actor and a member of The Firesign Theatre. He has performed voice-over work for video games, movies and television shows. His animated characters have included Rugrats' Howard Deville, Dr. Doolittle's 'Drunken French Monkey,' and Finding Nemo's Bob the Seahorse, among many characters. A talented boy soprano, he worked extensively in musical theatre in his youth, including numerous juvenile female roles in productions of Gilbert & Sullivan operettas, and in his early adult career he worked in musical theatre on Broadway, the West Coast and in touring productions. During this period Proctor worked with many famous names including composer Richard Rodgers, and forged important social connections, becoming close friends with notable figures including Henry Jaglom, Brandon de Wilde, Peter Fonda and Karen Black. |
Phil Proctor
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Lisa Flanagan
Lisa Flanagan - Performance / Casting Faculty
Lisa, winner of the 2019 Audie for Fanstasy (Spinning Silver) is an award-winning narrator, voice actor, director, improviser, and classical soprano. Her voice-over work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Voice Arts Awards, including Best Audiobook Narration, Children's for Disney-Pixar's WALL-E.
Lisa, winner of the 2019 Audie for Fanstasy (Spinning Silver) is an award-winning narrator, voice actor, director, improviser, and classical soprano. Her voice-over work includes animation, video games, and commercials. Lisa has received multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards and Voice Arts Awards, including Best Audiobook Narration, Children's for Disney-Pixar's WALL-E.
Neil Hellegers
Neil Hellegers - Performance Faculty
Neil hails from the green hills and not-so-busy streets of River Vale, NJ, where he divided his time between theatre, literature, percussion, and policy debate. He is happy to note that he has managed to maintain this balance for the entirety of his adult life.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA, with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a Minor in Psychology, Neil acquired a M.F.A in Acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory, in Providence, RI. He returned to NYC in 2003, and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theatre education, and audiobook narration, and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, rambunctious son, and their mutt!
Neil also has sought and developed educational opportunities, considering teaching as a means of advancing the craft of both student and teacher, and also a vehicle for social and political change. Neil has played drums in a wide variety of bands and musical groups, from punk, to prog, to jazz, to folk, and in theatrical performance, most notably for the Philly-based-90s-progressive-instrumental-rock-band, Lexicon.
As an audiobook narrator, Neil specializes in fiction, genre and non. A voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy, Neil strives to bring the same thrill of the possible to the actual, with non-fiction ranging from self-help both spiritual and practical, history, and cultural studies. Recording at home from a Studiobricks One Plus, he is an Audible Approved Producer, and has worked for numerous publishers, including Tantor Media, Penguin Random House Audio, Blackstone Audio, Audible Studios, Deyan Audio, Spoken Realms, and more. He is a proud member of SAG AFTRA.
Neil hails from the green hills and not-so-busy streets of River Vale, NJ, where he divided his time between theatre, literature, percussion, and policy debate. He is happy to note that he has managed to maintain this balance for the entirety of his adult life.
After graduating from the University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, PA, with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a Minor in Psychology, Neil acquired a M.F.A in Acting from the Trinity Rep Conservatory, in Providence, RI. He returned to NYC in 2003, and, since then, has made a career of theatrical performance, percussion, theatre education, and audiobook narration, and is currently living in Brooklyn, NY, with his wife, rambunctious son, and their mutt!
Neil also has sought and developed educational opportunities, considering teaching as a means of advancing the craft of both student and teacher, and also a vehicle for social and political change. Neil has played drums in a wide variety of bands and musical groups, from punk, to prog, to jazz, to folk, and in theatrical performance, most notably for the Philly-based-90s-progressive-instrumental-rock-band, Lexicon.
As an audiobook narrator, Neil specializes in fiction, genre and non. A voracious reader of science fiction and fantasy, Neil strives to bring the same thrill of the possible to the actual, with non-fiction ranging from self-help both spiritual and practical, history, and cultural studies. Recording at home from a Studiobricks One Plus, he is an Audible Approved Producer, and has worked for numerous publishers, including Tantor Media, Penguin Random House Audio, Blackstone Audio, Audible Studios, Deyan Audio, Spoken Realms, and more. He is a proud member of SAG AFTRA.
Bryan Lincoln
Byran Lincoln - Master Recording Engineer
Bryan Lincoln joins the HEAR Now Festival as the Workshop 101 Master Recording Engineer. He will work with participants to capture their performances and then showcase how these are layered and mixed.
Bryan is an audio editor and producer working in audiobooks and audio drama.
who also has a PhD physics.
Bryan Lincoln joins the HEAR Now Festival as the Workshop 101 Master Recording Engineer. He will work with participants to capture their performances and then showcase how these are layered and mixed.
Bryan is an audio editor and producer working in audiobooks and audio drama.
who also has a PhD physics.
Nick Messite
Nick Messite - Post Production Engineer
Nick Messite will present 'post-production and noise' on Friday, June 7th to the Workshop 101 class. Using primary programs like Isotope, Nick will help demonstrate how producers and podcasters can 'clean-up' recordings. He will be working with samples from Thursday's Workshop 101 recordings.
As an engineer, Nick's credits range from theater (Rapunzarella White, Voiceless, Get Got) to indie rock (Bulletproof Stockings, Empire State Express) to Classical (Jean Michel Goury) and Jazz (Learning Curve, Eliot Cardinaux).
A talent in his own right as a guitarist, pianist, bassist, and drummer, he has performed alongside some great musicians, including pop acts (Josh Groban) respected singer/songwriters (Hawksley Workman), jazz greats (Sam Rivers), and indie rock bands (Leland Sundries).
Nick Messite will present 'post-production and noise' on Friday, June 7th to the Workshop 101 class. Using primary programs like Isotope, Nick will help demonstrate how producers and podcasters can 'clean-up' recordings. He will be working with samples from Thursday's Workshop 101 recordings.
As an engineer, Nick's credits range from theater (Rapunzarella White, Voiceless, Get Got) to indie rock (Bulletproof Stockings, Empire State Express) to Classical (Jean Michel Goury) and Jazz (Learning Curve, Eliot Cardinaux).
A talent in his own right as a guitarist, pianist, bassist, and drummer, he has performed alongside some great musicians, including pop acts (Josh Groban) respected singer/songwriters (Hawksley Workman), jazz greats (Sam Rivers), and indie rock bands (Leland Sundries).
Tony Brewer
Tony Brewer, is a poet and sound effects artist from Bloomington, Indiana. From 1994-1998 he produced and directed HAYWARD SANITARIUM, a horror/thriller audio series distributed nationally on NPR Playhouse, and he taught and performed live sound effects at the National Audio Theatre Festivals in Missouri from 2001-2012. He has been the sound effects guy and co-writer of the WFHB Firehouse Follies live variety show in Bloomington since 2008, and has taught and performed at HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival in Kansas City since 2013. He won an ANGIE (named for Angela Lansbury) and was made a Kentucky Colonel for his live foley work 2008-2012 at the International Mystery Writers Festival in Owensboro KY. In 2015 Tony received the inaugural Bradshaw Award (named for Firesign Theatre character Lt. Bradshaw) for Service to the Field of Audio Theatre by the American Society for Science Fiction Audio. His zombie-comedy audio play THE LAST BROADCAST won audience favorite at the 2016 HEAR NOW Festival. He has taught at Indiana University, Ivy Tech Community College, Michigan University, and the Kansas City Art Institute, and he has performed with the Knoxville Opera, VoiceScapes, Otherworld Media, SueMedia, Mind’s Ear Audio, Ruth Eckerd Hall, IU Cinema, and Wounded Galaxies Festival, as well as in dozens of independent productions. Tony is also a member of CRICKET’S BONE CARAVAN audio troupe, sound designer for STAGES BLOOMINGTON, and one third of the poetry performance group RESERVOIR DOGWOODS. He frequently collaborates with the experimental music + field recording collective URBAN DEER.
Additional Workshop 101 Assistant Faculty
Butch D'Ambrosio
Butch D’Ambrosio, past Workshop 101 Director, will be on hand this year to work with the classes. Butch got his first rejection from MAD magazine when he was 12 years old. He was their youngest intern and the last one under Bill Gaines. Butch was also a contributing member of the Usual Gang of Idiots for a long while. His involvement in audio theatre goes back almost as far, having been lucky enough to hook up with certain people… then MRTW… now NATF. Some of his other interesting things are too long ago to be relevant, a short film, a season writing for a Sesame Workshop animated children’s show, years of involvement with local theatre groups, a sketch group, doing sound effects, spending five seasons at a RenFaire, etc.. Some more recent things include being a board member of the aforementioned NATF, writing for 24 hour play festivals, and creating now abandoned Twitter accounts focusing his dislike of Justin Beiber and the Royal Wedding in Haiku. He can be heard playing great music and complaining about something every Sunday night at 11pm eastern on http://live.streamwrhu.net.
Brian Price
For Brian Price and his Great Northern Audio Theatre partner, Jerry Stearns, 2018 was another banner year as their original production "The Old Cart Wrangler" won an Audie nomination. In 2017 they won an APA Audie for their feature-length drama, IN THE EMBERS, were awarded the Norman Corwin Award for a lifetime of Excellence in Audio Theatre, and released their newest CD, LOOSE WHEELS AND NARROW NECKS--monologues featuring David Ossman. Brian has written, directed and worked with audio theater groups across the country including Native Voices At the Autry, the Grist Mill, and the National Audio Theatre Festivals. He is also a Mark Time Grandmaster in good standing. www.greatnorthernaudio.com
