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Barbara Rosenblat is one of the most beloved and sought after narrators of audiobooks in the country. Her extraordinary range of accents and abilities over the years has earned her eight coveted Audie Awards from the Audio Publishers Association.
HEAR Now Festival Programming/Board President Sue Zizza spoke alongside Rosenblat during her interview on FOX 4 News Thursday morning. |
SAN FRANCISCO: Underscoring the diversity of this year’s AES Convention Special Events Track, Poe – A Life And Stories In Sound offers attendees a rare opportunity to see legendary 3-time Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre star Phil Proctor, in a live, hour-long dramatic audio performance, as writer Edgar Allen Poe. Engaging live and recorded sound effects, with an original score, the production features Proctor dramatizing moments from Poe’s life and passages from the author’s most powerful prose.
cheduled for Saturday, October 27, 8:00 pm – 9:00 pm, Poe – A Life And Stories In Sound will also feature actors Melinda Peterson, Bill Chessman, and Ellen Stewart. The production, underwritten by Sennheiser-Neumann USA, features an original play written, produced and directed by award-winning audio dramatist Sue Zizza, and features sound design by David Shinn, of SueMedia Productions, (www.suemediaproductions.com) with live sound effects performed by Valerie Priest and Suzan Lorraine and recorded playback by Don Priest. The production, which serves to kick-off the inaugural “HEAR Now: The Audio Fiction and Arts Festival” happening in Kansas City, MO from June 20th -23rd, 2013, was coordinated by AES Convention Broadcast/Streaming Media Chair David Bialik to illustrate the diversity of live audio production. |
This free, family-friendly storytelling event is presented by the National Audio Theatre Festival as part of the HEAR Now Festival: The Audio Fiction & Arts Festival presents World War 1: Voices and Stories from the Front, Join Raymond Starzmann, as President Harry S. Truman, for this engaging program of original stories, remembrances and more from the Great War!
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