2018 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
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$15.00 for Saturday Night AUDIO Tonight!
Individual event tickets will be available at the door for:
AUDIO Tonight! (Saturday night).
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ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
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Individual Event Ticket Cost:
$15.00 for Saturday Night AUDIO Tonight!
Individual event tickets will be available at the door for:
AUDIO Tonight! (Saturday night).
2018 ALL ACCESS PASS & TICKET Order Form for Hear Now Festival
ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2018 HEAR MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.
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Master of Ceremony:
Julia Whelan
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.
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.
Featured in AUDIO Tonight!
David Ossman and Phil Proctor
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Firesign Theatre
"The Art of Radio"
Phil Proctor and David Ossman
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David Ossman, one of the four creators of The Firesign Theatre, three-time Grammy nominees, known as “The Beatles of Comedy,” has been publishing poetry in books, anthologies and magazines since his teen years.
The Sullen Art, his 1960-61 radio broadcasts with emerging writers included Allen Ginsberg, Amiri Baraka and Denise Levertov, and has generated a scholarly collection (U. of Toledo Press, 2016). He has co-authored four books of Firesign’s stage and radio plays, written a novel, The Ronald Reagan Murder Case and a memoir, Dr. Firesign’s Follies, (both Bear Manor Press). He is finishing a second memoir, Fighting Clowns. An internationally-celebrated radio writer-director, best known for The War of the Worlds 50th Anniversary Production, Ossman has also produced major programs with John Cage, Ray Bradbury and Norman Corwin. His archives chronicle the Sixties, from Beat Poets to the first Renaissance Faire and the first Love-In and continue into the 21st Century. |
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Phil Proctor is a voice, stage and screen actor, and a member of The Firesign Theatre Phil has performed voice-over work for video games, movies and television shows.
Among his most noted works are Rugrats (1998) Monsters, Inc. (2001), Assassin's Creed (2007) and Dr. Dolittle 2 (2001). |
David Ossman and Phil Proctor
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Till Death Do Us Not Part
from VoiceScapes Audio Theater written by Tom & Ellin Curley A tale about calling Customer Service.... Starring Robin Miles, Sande Sherr, and Sue Zizza with guests PJ Ochlan and Richard Fish VoiceScapes is a group of audio actors, directors, sound engineers, writers and producers who met and worked together in Missouri each year at the National Audio Theatre Festivals. Because they all live in or near New York City, they decided to create a New York City based contemporary audio theater company - VoiceScapes Audio Theater. They have performed at the four previous HEAR Now Festivals as well as the Paley Center in New York City for AES, The Dolby Theater in NYC, and the Lillian Booth Actor's Home in Engelwood, NY, and various other library venues in the NY Metro Area. |
VoiceScapes Audio Theater
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Sande Sherr
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Guest PJ Ochlan
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Sue Zizza
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Guest Rich Fish
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Robin Miles
The Poet's Corner with Tony Brewer
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Tony Brewer is a poet, spoken word performer, screenwriter, sound effects artist, and roller derby announcer. He is also executive director of the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival in Bloomington, Indiana. He has three books (The Great American Scapegoat, Little Glove in a Big Hand, and Hot Type Cold Read) and wrote and co-produced a DVD, 8 Wheels of Death, the world’s first roller zombie romantic comedy.
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Tony Brewer
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Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Colour of the Shadow of the Outsider Over the Mountain of Madness Out of Space
from Atlanta Radio Theatre Company written by Ron N. Butler The Dunwich Disposal Corporation uses power generated by consuming garbage to recharge depleted power storage units. But their energy output is far more than can be accounted for by the amount of raw materials used. Does Dunwich have an unlicensed atomic pile? Or is their power source… something else? Cast: Hal Wiedeman - Announcer/Titus Coltrane David Benedict - Rory Rammer Billy Barefoot - Skip Sagan Sande Sherr - PDQ Lovecraft (Guest Performer) Retta Bodhaine - Foley/Kikkoman (the cat) Written by Ron N. Butler, Directed by David Benedict |
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company
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Bill Clause
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Pinky The Pig
Bill Clause has "taken a short joke and embellished it into a whopper of a story..." Cast: Mark Naggi: City Slicker Bill Clause: Country Bumpkin Mary Gerlt: Pig SFX
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ED WOOD! THE MUSICAL
(A MUSICAL PARODY OF THE LIFE & FILMS OF EDWARD D. WOOD, JR.)
BOOK & LYRICS BY RUSSELL MCGEE
MUSIC & ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY RYAN CHASE
MUSIC & ADDITIONAL LYRICS BY RYAN CHASE
Ed Wood! The Musical is an affectionate parody of the life and works of Edward D. Wood, Jr. A wannabe filmmaker, who has a fondness for angora, turns the film world woefully on its head. Having the drive and passion for film making is not enough to create great works of art but love and determination blindly lead Ed Wood down the misguided path to realize something else. Wobbly papier-mâché head stones, fake grass, and hub–cap flying saucers pervade Ed Wood’s world. They aren’t bad filmmakers, just misunderstood misfits and wehope you enjoy this larking look at their lives and films.
NOTE: This is a workshop of a new musical in development as such you will be seeing a few songs and scenes that we feel best portray the production as a whole.
NOTE: This is a workshop of a new musical in development as such you will be seeing a few songs and scenes that we feel best portray the production as a whole.
CAST:
Chris Aruffo: Bela Lugosi/Brooks Marco
Zach Johnson: Ed Wood
Emily Mcgee: Dolores Fuller/Vampira
Aubrey Seader: Loretta King
Russell McGee: Criswell
CREW:
Ryan Chase: Composer
Russell McGee: Writer, Producer, Director.
Chance (Chancelor) Edmaiston: Sound Designer & Theremin Player
Chris Aruffo: Bela Lugosi/Brooks Marco
Zach Johnson: Ed Wood
Emily Mcgee: Dolores Fuller/Vampira
Aubrey Seader: Loretta King
Russell McGee: Criswell
CREW:
Ryan Chase: Composer
Russell McGee: Writer, Producer, Director.
Chance (Chancelor) Edmaiston: Sound Designer & Theremin Player
Russell McGee
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Russell McGee is a producer, director, writer, and sound designer. He is currently working as the On-air Promotions Producer for WTIU and as a freelance sound designer on the Doctor Who audio plays produced by Big Finish Productions LTD. In 2007, he was awarded the Basile Playwriting Fellowship through the Indiana Theatre Association for his ten-minute play ‘The Clockwork Man’ and his play ‘Silent Cinema’ won the Artsweek Playwriting Competition. In 2013, his film ‘Funeral March of a Marionette’ won the Best Narrative category at the Iris Film Festival. In 2016, he wrote ‘Doctor Who - The Horror of Hy-Brasil’ for the Big Finish Productions as part of the Subscriber Short Trips. In 2017, he wrote ‘Doctor Who - The Spectre Of Gelsandor’ for Pencil Tip Publishing as part of the The Temporal Logbook II.
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Composer Ryan Chase
Chris Aruffo
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Chance Edmaiston
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Zach Johnson
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Emily McGee
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AUDIO! Tonight musicians
Steve Donofrio
Tibetan Singing Bowls
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Erik Lawernce - Saxaphone
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Additional AUDIO Tonight Cast includes:
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Delaney Cinnamon
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Butch D'Ambrosio
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AUDIO Tonight Continuity / Producer
Butch D'Ambrosio If Mr. D’Ambrosio existed and enjoyed talking about himself, he might tell you that he got his first rejection from MAD magazine when he was 12 years old. That he was the youngest intern and the last one under Bill Gaines, back in the day when the legendary publisher of Tales From The Crypt hand wrote the checks (back in the days when internships paid money). That he was a contributing member of the Usual Gang of Idiots for a long while. He might tell you that his involvement in audio theatre goes back almost as far, having been lucky enough to hook up with certain people… then MRTW… the 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 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 is more interested in finishing novels than having people actually read them and, again, if he existed, he might be looking forward to ski season. |
AUDIO Tonight Production Team
Scott Cinnamon - Stage Manager
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Ray Archie - Master Mixer
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Katherine Remelius
Technical Assistant/ Student
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