2015 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming
Reading With Your Ears: The Art of the Audiobook
Purchase an ALL ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS, to attend any of our events, or select individual tickets to specific events you want to attend:
Individual Event Ticket Costs:
$8.00 per 90 minute "listening event" in Cinemark Theaters
$30.00 per 5 sessions (FIVE 90 minute "listening events" in Cinemark Theaters)
$15.00 for Thursday Night Opening event - Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
$15.00 for Saturday Afternoon Reading With Your Ears: The Art of the Audiobook (This program is free with a Kansas City library RSVP.)
$15.00 for Saturday Night AUDIO Tonight!
$15.00 for Closing Brunch and Awards Ceremony
The following programs are free and require no tickets: Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Kathe Kollwitz and Celebrating Mark Twain.
Reading With Your Ears: The Art of the Audiobook
Purchase an ALL ACCESS FESTIVAL PASS, to attend any of our events, or select individual tickets to specific events you want to attend:
Individual Event Ticket Costs:
$8.00 per 90 minute "listening event" in Cinemark Theaters
$30.00 per 5 sessions (FIVE 90 minute "listening events" in Cinemark Theaters)
$15.00 for Thursday Night Opening event - Midnight In the Garden of Good and Evil
$15.00 for Saturday Afternoon Reading With Your Ears: The Art of the Audiobook (This program is free with a Kansas City library RSVP.)
$15.00 for Saturday Night AUDIO Tonight!
$15.00 for Closing Brunch and Awards Ceremony
The following programs are free and require no tickets: Never Again War: The Sacrifice of Kathe Kollwitz and Celebrating Mark Twain.
Saturday, June 13th, 1:00pm - 2:30pm, in the Truman Forum at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library meet and hear
award-winning audiobook narrators reading from their favorite books.
Free audiobook door prizes will be given away throughout the performance.
Featured narrators for this 90 minute showcase include:
Golden Voice
Barbara Rosenblat
Barbara Rosenblat (Golden Voice)
READING FROM: OUT OF ORANGE by Catherine Cleary Wolters
RELEASE DATE: May 2015
Barbara Rosenblat is an actor living in New York City and has enjoyed a long career both here and the UK. She can currently be seen playing the cancer-ridden prisoner Miss Rosa on the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black as well as a new recurring role on the Fox series 'Gotham'.
On Broadway, she created the role of Mrs Medlock in the 3-time Tony award winning musical,The Secret Garden.
Barbara is also one of the most sought after voice actors in the country. She is one of the audiobook industry's most beloved recording artists with 8 Audie Awards and countless other commendations for a distinguished body of work.
One critic was moved to write, 'Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film'.
READING FROM: OUT OF ORANGE by Catherine Cleary Wolters
RELEASE DATE: May 2015
Barbara Rosenblat is an actor living in New York City and has enjoyed a long career both here and the UK. She can currently be seen playing the cancer-ridden prisoner Miss Rosa on the Netflix original series Orange Is The New Black as well as a new recurring role on the Fox series 'Gotham'.
On Broadway, she created the role of Mrs Medlock in the 3-time Tony award winning musical,The Secret Garden.
Barbara is also one of the most sought after voice actors in the country. She is one of the audiobook industry's most beloved recording artists with 8 Audie Awards and countless other commendations for a distinguished body of work.
One critic was moved to write, 'Barbara is to audiobooks what Meryl Streep is to film'.
Golden Voice
Dion Graham
Dion Graham (Golden Voice)
READING FROM: Days Gone By by Eric Jerome Dickey
Dion Graham, from HBO’s The Wire , also narrates The First 48 on A&E. A multiple Audie Award–winning and critically acclaimed actor and narrator, he has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, internationally, in films, and in several hit television series. Most recently he played Fred Cole on CBS's Madam Secretary.
He also narrated this year's Odyssey Award winner H.O.R.S.E. His performances have been praised as thoughtful and compelling, vivid and full of life.
Golden Voice
Robin Miles
Robin Miles (Golden Voice)
READING FROM: The Good House by Tananarive Due
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).
Robin owns Voxpertise® training & production studio. She graduated from Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.
READING FROM: The Good House by Tananarive Due
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).
Robin owns Voxpertise® training & production studio. She graduated from Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.
Narrator Robert Fass
Robert Fass
READING FROM:
THE MAN WHO TOUCHED HIS OWN HEART: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
by Rob Dunn
Robert Fass has recorded over 100 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres including
History, Sci-Fi, Journalism, YA, Mystery, and Literary Fiction. He has received 2 Audie awards, multiple Earphones awards, and was listed among AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year in
2011, 2012, and 2013. He is also a writer and photographer. He lives in New York.
READING FROM:
THE MAN WHO TOUCHED HIS OWN HEART: True Tales of Science, Surgery, and Mystery
by Rob Dunn
Robert Fass has recorded over 100 audiobooks across a wide variety of genres including
History, Sci-Fi, Journalism, YA, Mystery, and Literary Fiction. He has received 2 Audie awards, multiple Earphones awards, and was listed among AudioFile’s Best Audiobooks of the Year in
2011, 2012, and 2013. He is also a writer and photographer. He lives in New York.
Narrator Richard Ferrone
Richard Ferrone
READING FROM: The King by Steven James
Richard Ferrone, an Audie Award recipient, has consistently received high praise from critics and fans alike for his audiobook performances for 25 years. He has performed on and off Broadway and in regional theatres.
TV appearances include Law & Order, Against the Law, Guiding Light and One Life To Live.
This program co-presented in partnership support from The Kansas City Public Library.
