2018 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
The Mark Time Awards & Performance
Poster design by Jim Arndt of IDDP (www.iddp.com)
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Thursday, June 7th, 2018 9:00pm - 10:00pm Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Grand Ballroom Guest Presenters: David Ossman & Phil Proctor featuring a special performance of
Dialogue With Martian Trombone by Brian Price & Jerry Stearns |
Mark Time Awards Only Tickets:$25.00 per person
Finalists and fans are welcome to attend only The Mark Time Awards and HNF After Party on Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 9:00pm - midnight. The evening begins at 9:00pm with The Mark Time Awards featuring hosts David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom that includes a live performance directed by Mark Time Master Brian Price and featuring Melinda Peterson among the cast. Immediately following at 10:00pm is the HEAR Now Festival After Party across the street at Simpson House to which all Mark Time ticket holders are welcome. Tickets are $25 per person for the Mark Time Award events.
SPECIAL ADDITION: The 2018 NATF Playhouse will be featuring Mark Time Finalist Nairobi Jack from The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company on Thursday, June 7, 2018, beginning at midnight and running till 1:00am at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza HEAR Now's Listening Room. Mark Time and Festival ticket holders are welcome to meet members of the producing team.
Finalists and fans are welcome to attend only The Mark Time Awards and HNF After Party on Thursday, June 7, 2018 from 9:00pm - midnight. The evening begins at 9:00pm with The Mark Time Awards featuring hosts David Ossman and Phil Proctor at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom that includes a live performance directed by Mark Time Master Brian Price and featuring Melinda Peterson among the cast. Immediately following at 10:00pm is the HEAR Now Festival After Party across the street at Simpson House to which all Mark Time ticket holders are welcome. Tickets are $25 per person for the Mark Time Award events.
SPECIAL ADDITION: The 2018 NATF Playhouse will be featuring Mark Time Finalist Nairobi Jack from The Atlanta Radio Theatre Company on Thursday, June 7, 2018, beginning at midnight and running till 1:00am at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza HEAR Now's Listening Room. Mark Time and Festival ticket holders are welcome to meet members of the producing team.
Mark Time AWARD FINALIST FESTIVAL TICKET: $125.00 per person
Mark Time Award Finalists are welcome to attend all HNF events under our discounted Featured Artist pass. This pass includes the Mark Time Award Program and the HNF After Party on Thursday, June 7, 2018.
Finalists are eligible to purchase up to 4 discounted HEAR Now Festival Passes for their producing team to attend all primary events and programs between June 7 - 10, 2018.
This pass does not include workshops, hotel, or transportation fees. If you would like to take one of our workshops during the Festival write to us at: hearnowfestival@gmail.com.
Mark Time Award Finalists are welcome to attend all HNF events under our discounted Featured Artist pass. This pass includes the Mark Time Award Program and the HNF After Party on Thursday, June 7, 2018.
Finalists are eligible to purchase up to 4 discounted HEAR Now Festival Passes for their producing team to attend all primary events and programs between June 7 - 10, 2018.
This pass does not include workshops, hotel, or transportation fees. If you would like to take one of our workshops during the Festival write to us at: hearnowfestival@gmail.com.
2018 Mark Time Awards
Presented at the 2018 Hear Now Audio Festivals, Kansas City, MO -- June 7, 2018
Thirty-one Entries, from four countries, and twelve US States.
THE OGLE FOR FANTASY
2018 Bronze Ogle Award for Fantasy
Producer David Benedict, Atlanta Radio Theatre
“Nairobi Jack Rackham and the Lost Gold of the Atlantimengani”
2018 Silver Ogle for Fantasy
Producer, Roger Gregg, Dublin, Ireland
“The Muse Unbidden”
2018 Gold Ogle for Fantasy
Producer Michel Lafrance, South Queensferry, UK
“The Fairy Tree”
THE OGLE FOR HORROR
2018 Bronze Ogle Award for Horror
Producer Todd Faulkner, New York, NY
"Uncanny County"
2018 Silver Ogle for Horror
Producer Kaitlin Statz, Fool and Scholar Productions
“The White Vault, Season 1”
2018 Gold Ogle for Horror
Producer William Dufris, South Portland, Maine
“The Floodgates of Willowhill”
NICK DANGER PRIZE FOR MYSTERY AND DETECTION
*2018 Bronze Nick Danger
Producer James Wortman, Ventura, CA
“Houdini’s Secret Life”
*2018 Bronze Nick Danger
Producer Greg McAfee, San Diego, CA
“Rex Rivetter: Private Eye”
*(No Silver awarded, above entries were tied in points at the Bronze level)
2018 Gold Nick Danger
Producer William Dufris, South Portland, Maine
“Sight Unseen”
2018 BETTY JO AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
Julia Whalen
as Amanda in “Sight Unseen”
THE SQUEEKY PICKLE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMEDY
(No Bronze Awarded)
2018 Silver Pickle
Producer Jonathan A. Goldberg
“The Fall of the House of Sunshine”
2018 Gold Pickle and Grand Master Award
Producer Darrell Brogdon, Parkville, MO
“Right Between the Ears: The Over and Out Show”
MARK TIME AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION
2018 Bronze Mark Time
Producers Erik Saras, Samuel Boaz-Miller, Sam Lovley
“Marsfall”
2018 Silver Mark Time
Producer Jason Hardcastle, Wilmington DE
“Cerberus Rex”
2018 Mark Time Gold and Grand Master Award
Producer Dieter Zimmermann, Cape Town, South Africa
“Brad Lansky and the Result War”
THE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE FIELD
Two awards were presented this year:
William Stout
Artist, Visionary, and Dear Friend
Matthew Barton
Audio Curator and Historian
Presented at the 2018 Hear Now Audio Festivals, Kansas City, MO -- June 7, 2018
Thirty-one Entries, from four countries, and twelve US States.
THE OGLE FOR FANTASY
2018 Bronze Ogle Award for Fantasy
Producer David Benedict, Atlanta Radio Theatre
“Nairobi Jack Rackham and the Lost Gold of the Atlantimengani”
2018 Silver Ogle for Fantasy
Producer, Roger Gregg, Dublin, Ireland
“The Muse Unbidden”
2018 Gold Ogle for Fantasy
Producer Michel Lafrance, South Queensferry, UK
“The Fairy Tree”
THE OGLE FOR HORROR
2018 Bronze Ogle Award for Horror
Producer Todd Faulkner, New York, NY
"Uncanny County"
2018 Silver Ogle for Horror
Producer Kaitlin Statz, Fool and Scholar Productions
“The White Vault, Season 1”
2018 Gold Ogle for Horror
Producer William Dufris, South Portland, Maine
“The Floodgates of Willowhill”
NICK DANGER PRIZE FOR MYSTERY AND DETECTION
*2018 Bronze Nick Danger
Producer James Wortman, Ventura, CA
“Houdini’s Secret Life”
*2018 Bronze Nick Danger
Producer Greg McAfee, San Diego, CA
“Rex Rivetter: Private Eye”
*(No Silver awarded, above entries were tied in points at the Bronze level)
2018 Gold Nick Danger
Producer William Dufris, South Portland, Maine
“Sight Unseen”
2018 BETTY JO AWARD FOR BEST PERFORMANCE
Julia Whalen
as Amanda in “Sight Unseen”
THE SQUEEKY PICKLE FOR EXCELLENCE IN COMEDY
(No Bronze Awarded)
2018 Silver Pickle
Producer Jonathan A. Goldberg
“The Fall of the House of Sunshine”
2018 Gold Pickle and Grand Master Award
Producer Darrell Brogdon, Parkville, MO
“Right Between the Ears: The Over and Out Show”
MARK TIME AWARD FOR SCIENCE FICTION
2018 Bronze Mark Time
Producers Erik Saras, Samuel Boaz-Miller, Sam Lovley
“Marsfall”
2018 Silver Mark Time
Producer Jason Hardcastle, Wilmington DE
“Cerberus Rex”
2018 Mark Time Gold and Grand Master Award
Producer Dieter Zimmermann, Cape Town, South Africa
“Brad Lansky and the Result War”
THE BRADSHAW AWARD FOR SERVICE TO THE FIELD
Two awards were presented this year:
William Stout
Artist, Visionary, and Dear Friend
Matthew Barton
Audio Curator and Historian
Dialogue With Martian Trombone
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Cast & Crew: David Ossman - Tony Maraschino, Martian Philip Proctor - Opening MC, Dicky Dyson Melinda Peterson - Amanda Henri Richard Fish - Opening MC, Archie Raquello Donna Postel - Aldrich Orson Ossman - Vic Henri, Newscaster (at end), credits and toss show to David and Phil Jerry Stearns - voice from crowd |
Trombonist: Johnathan Curtman
Live SFX; Tony Brewer Record Effects/Production: Jerry Stearns Sound Engineer: Renee Pringle Director: Brian Price Producer: Judith Walcutt |
 Mark Time's David Ossman
David Ossman (Firesign Theatre)
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. |
 Phil Proctor
Phil Proctor (Firesign Theatre)
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). |
Brian Price
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Brian Price (Director, co-author)
Dialogue With Martian Trombone In addition to learning who the Mark Time winners are, Director Brian Price, of Great Northern Audio Theatre, brings one of their classic tales to the 2018 Mark Time Awards. The Ramon Raquello Orchestra was supposed to get their big break that night in 1938, on Orson Welles' Mercury Theater show, but they kept getting cut off. The rest of that program became famous. Still is. But what happened to the band? We join them many years later, at a reunion of the band, and it seems that they can't seem to escape the influence of the Martians. Featured in the cast: David Ossman, Phil Proctor, Melinda Peterson, and Donna Postel, with Trombonist Johnathan Curtman With Sound Effects by Tony Brewer |
Jerry Stearns
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Jerry Stearns (co-author, voices, recorded sound effects)
Jerry is a native Minnesotan, firmly settled in Minneapolis, where he is a longtime volunteer broadcaster and trainer at KFAI-FM. Starting in 1979 he co-hosted Shockwave, a Sci-Fi oriented show, and began creating original sketches at Minicon. In 1994 he began his current weekly show, Sound Affects—A Radio Playground, and in 1996 helped found the Mark Time Award and the Ogle Award, presented annually at CONvergence. Like his co-creator Brian, Jerry was involved very early with the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, and has had original scripts produced at Workshop shows. They have also organized audio theater workshops and conferences of their own. |
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Melinda Peterson (actor)
Melinda has been a professional actor for over 45 years and after slogging through 20 of them, she was introduced to audio theatre when she played all 17 of the female roles in Proctor & Bergman’s Power which aired on NPR as a regular segment of John Hockenberry’s HEAT. She still wonders why she wasted so many years in make-up. Since that time she has worked with all-star casts in We Hold These Truths and Empire of the Air for Other World Media, performed with The Firesign Theatre on The Great Internet Broadcast for the Toyota Comedy Festival in New York and traveled several times to Dublin to act in Crazy Dog Audio productions for RTE, Ireland’s public radio service. She is most proud that she was Norman Corwin’s very favorite Lucretia Borgia in his The Plot to Overthrow Christmas. Cast as Agatha Christie she lead the companies of The BBC Murders in Kentucky, Washington and Florida. She has been a member of Los Angeles’ classical theatre ensemble, The Antaeus Company, since 1991 and lives in LA with her darling husband, Phil Proctor, and her even more darling cat. |
Melinda Peterson
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Donna Postel
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Donna Postel (actor)
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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Live SFX performed by Tony Brewer
Tony 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. |
Tony Brewer
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Mark Time's Judith Walcutt
Judith Walcutt (Otherworld Media / Mark Time Producer)
Judith Walcutt is the founder and CEO of Otherworld Media, an internationally acclaimed production company since 1981. She has been a professional in the broadcast and communications field for over thirty years. As a writer, director, and producer, she has generated hundreds of hours of programming for radio, theatre, television, and live festivals.
She began her career in theatre with an off-Broadway production of her first play at the La MaMa etc. shortly after her graduation from Bard College in 1974. She continued working in mixed media in Los Angeles, collaborating with performance artists, musicians, and dancers at the Woman’s Building, California Institute of the Arts, and at the University of Southern California where she finished her Masters degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature in 1976. In 1979, she moved to Seattle and produced her first radio play for young people at KRAB-FM, the first free-form radio station in the Northwest.
In 1985, Walcutt took her producing skills to WGBH, Boston, for “The Spider’s Web,” hosted by Julie Harris and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The weekly radio drama series for young people aired classics of American literature, and was the last of its kind for public radio. Her first large-scale production for The Web, “The Red Badge of Courage,” a collaboration with her future husband, David Ossman, became the pilot for WGBH’s “Radio Movies” in 1986 in which the team applied the techniques of on-location recording, as well as filmic sound design and musical scoring to “radio drama,” moving the art form out of its past and into its future.
Judith Walcutt is the founder and CEO of Otherworld Media, an internationally acclaimed production company since 1981. She has been a professional in the broadcast and communications field for over thirty years. As a writer, director, and producer, she has generated hundreds of hours of programming for radio, theatre, television, and live festivals.
She began her career in theatre with an off-Broadway production of her first play at the La MaMa etc. shortly after her graduation from Bard College in 1974. She continued working in mixed media in Los Angeles, collaborating with performance artists, musicians, and dancers at the Woman’s Building, California Institute of the Arts, and at the University of Southern California where she finished her Masters degree in Rhetoric, Linguistics, and Literature in 1976. In 1979, she moved to Seattle and produced her first radio play for young people at KRAB-FM, the first free-form radio station in the Northwest.
In 1985, Walcutt took her producing skills to WGBH, Boston, for “The Spider’s Web,” hosted by Julie Harris and funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The weekly radio drama series for young people aired classics of American literature, and was the last of its kind for public radio. Her first large-scale production for The Web, “The Red Badge of Courage,” a collaboration with her future husband, David Ossman, became the pilot for WGBH’s “Radio Movies” in 1986 in which the team applied the techniques of on-location recording, as well as filmic sound design and musical scoring to “radio drama,” moving the art form out of its past and into its future.
