2016 HEAR Now Festival Featured Programming:
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Shakespeare In Sound
In Conjunction with Shakespeare's First Folio Exhibit at Kansas City Public Library ShakesPower: Humor, Humanity, Politics & Romance for the Modern Ear Shakespeare starts in the heart and travels on the voice. From the First Folio to countless stages, from generation to generation, Shakespeare has retained the power to move and enfranchise the soul, serving as a primer for our very humanity. Please join us for this unique live event, as we explore, together, the boundless capacity of Shakespeare's words. Presentations include historical and contemporary recordings, live performances of selected scenes, and many special sonic treats from the Bard. ___________________________________________________________________________________ |
Thursday, June 9th, 6:30pm - 8:00pm, in the Truman Forum at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library
Audiobook door prizes will be given away at this performance courtesy of
Blackstone / Downpour.
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:
$15.00 for Thursday Night Opening: Shakespeare In Sound (This program is free for Kansas City residents and library RSVP.)
ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2016 HEAR MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.
Individual Event Ticket Costs:
$15.00 for Thursday Night Opening: Shakespeare In Sound (This program is free for Kansas City residents and library RSVP.)
ADDRESSES FOR OUR VENUES:
Each event below lists the location and address.
CLICK HERE FOR THE 2016 HEAR MAP FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF LOCATIONS AND ADDRESSES.
Golden Voice
Robin Miles
Robin Miles (Executive Producer & Presenter)
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). She was asstistant professor of Speech, teaching Shakespeare and Greek theater at SUNY Purchase Theater Conservatory, and has taught workshops and seminars at UC San Diego, U of MN (Duluth), Yale Drama School, and Denver Center Theater School.
Robin owns Voxpertise® training & production studio. She graduated from Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.
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). She was asstistant professor of Speech, teaching Shakespeare and Greek theater at SUNY Purchase Theater Conservatory, and has taught workshops and seminars at UC San Diego, U of MN (Duluth), Yale Drama School, and Denver Center Theater School.
Robin owns Voxpertise® training & production studio. She graduated from Yale University and the Yale School of Drama.
Christina Delaine
Christina Delaine (Co-Producer)
Christina is an accomplished stage and voice actor who has trod the boards of theaters from coast to coast. An Audie Award nominee and a multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards winner, she can be heard performing the works of several New York Times Best Selling Authors and National Book Award Finalists, including Bonnie Jo Campell, Melisssa Fay Greene, Chelsea Cain, Susan Wilson, Carla Norton and William C. Dietz, as well as in scores of commercials and video games, including World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Television credits include appearances on the Emmy Award-winning show A Crime to Remember and in Who Killed Chandra Levy? Notable theater credits include Jewtopia, the longest running comedy in off-Broadway history, and the title role in Antigone at both Portland Center Stage and Kentucky Repertory Theater. A longtime devotee of the Bard of Avon, Chris studied English literature with a concentration on Shakespeare while an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and has had the great pleasure of playing Isabella in Measure for Measure, and both Viola and Olivia in separate productions of Twelfth Night. She will be playing Brutus in Vermont Shakespeare Festival's upcoming production of JULIUS CAESAR. She teaches her acting workshop Embodying Shakespeare in New York City, has an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep and a dog named Boo Radley.
Christina is an accomplished stage and voice actor who has trod the boards of theaters from coast to coast. An Audie Award nominee and a multiple AudioFile Earphones Awards winner, she can be heard performing the works of several New York Times Best Selling Authors and National Book Award Finalists, including Bonnie Jo Campell, Melisssa Fay Greene, Chelsea Cain, Susan Wilson, Carla Norton and William C. Dietz, as well as in scores of commercials and video games, including World of Warcraft: Cataclysm. Television credits include appearances on the Emmy Award-winning show A Crime to Remember and in Who Killed Chandra Levy? Notable theater credits include Jewtopia, the longest running comedy in off-Broadway history, and the title role in Antigone at both Portland Center Stage and Kentucky Repertory Theater. A longtime devotee of the Bard of Avon, Chris studied English literature with a concentration on Shakespeare while an undergraduate at Dartmouth College and has had the great pleasure of playing Isabella in Measure for Measure, and both Viola and Olivia in separate productions of Twelfth Night. She will be playing Brutus in Vermont Shakespeare Festival's upcoming production of JULIUS CAESAR. She teaches her acting workshop Embodying Shakespeare in New York City, has an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep and a dog named Boo Radley.
Neil Hellegers
Neil Hellegers (Co-Producer & Presenter)
Neil is an actor and educator who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, son, and orange mutt. Neil has acted with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Aquila Theatre Company, and others, performing Shakespeare and contemporary texts nationally and internationally. He came to audiobook narration through a strong dedication to storytelling and a cripplingly voracious reading habit; He has produced titles with Tantor, Deyan, Audible, Listen2ABook, and others. Neil has taught Shakespeare and acting technique at the University of Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, West Point Military Academy, the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival, and elsewhere. His TV and Film credits include GOTHAM, THE BLACKLIST, BLUE BLOODS YOUNG ADULT, REACHING FOR THE MOON, and others. Neil has an MFA from Trinity Rep Conservatory and is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA..
Neil is an actor and educator who lives in Brooklyn, NY with his wife, son, and orange mutt. Neil has acted with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, Aquila Theatre Company, and others, performing Shakespeare and contemporary texts nationally and internationally. He came to audiobook narration through a strong dedication to storytelling and a cripplingly voracious reading habit; He has produced titles with Tantor, Deyan, Audible, Listen2ABook, and others. Neil has taught Shakespeare and acting technique at the University of Pennsylvania, the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, West Point Military Academy, the New York City Student Shakespeare Festival, and elsewhere. His TV and Film credits include GOTHAM, THE BLACKLIST, BLUE BLOODS YOUNG ADULT, REACHING FOR THE MOON, and others. Neil has an MFA from Trinity Rep Conservatory and is a proud member of AEA and SAG-AFTRA..
Additional Featured Performers Include:
William Dufris
William Dufris (Pocket Universe Productions)
William Dufris is producer/director of AudioComics and Pocket Universe Productions. He recently produced The Starling Project by Jeffrey Deaver (w/Alfred Molina) and Locke & Key by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez (w/Tatiana Maslany, Haley Joel Osment, Kate Mulgrew and Stephen King) for Audible Studios... winning an Audie Award for each.
William is also an award winning audiobook narrator and the voice of BOB in the original animated series of BOB The Builder.
Golden Voice
Dion Graham
Dion Graham (Golden Voice)
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.
Sande Sherr
Sande Sherr (VoiceScapes Audio Theater)
Sande received an M.A. in theatre from Adelphi University, and did post graduate work in directing and puppetry at New York University. She then went on to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and the Lincoln Center Institute. She started her career as a drama teacher and director in the New York City education system where she directed full scale plays and musicals (she is listed in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1993 & 1994), and created, developed and directed a traveling children’s theater company (Storybook Players) which performed for public schools in Queens, New York.
She is an actor of voiceover, improvisation, staged readings and performs in old time radio pieces as well as contemporary audio theater.
Sande received an M.A. in theatre from Adelphi University, and did post graduate work in directing and puppetry at New York University. She then went on to study at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting and the Lincoln Center Institute. She started her career as a drama teacher and director in the New York City education system where she directed full scale plays and musicals (she is listed in the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers, 1993 & 1994), and created, developed and directed a traveling children’s theater company (Storybook Players) which performed for public schools in Queens, New York.
She is an actor of voiceover, improvisation, staged readings and performs in old time radio pieces as well as contemporary audio theater.
Angela Elam of New Letters On The Air
Angela Elam (New Letters On the Air) ShakesPower Host
Angela has been the producer/host of UMKC's literary radio show New Letters on the Air since 1996.
She has worked in public radio since 1988 and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in dramatic writing.
Angela has also produced radio dramas and special features, including stories for NPR, one of which "Train Whistles or Horns?," won the 1994 PRNDI Award for best use of sound.
Angela has been the producer/host of UMKC's literary radio show New Letters on the Air since 1996.
She has worked in public radio since 1988 and received a Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Georgia in dramatic writing.
Angela has also produced radio dramas and special features, including stories for NPR, one of which "Train Whistles or Horns?," won the 1994 PRNDI Award for best use of sound.
First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare
at Kansas City Public Library from June 6 - June 28, 2016.
at Kansas City Public Library from June 6 - June 28, 2016.
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The Kansas City Public Library is the Missouri stop for the Folger Shakespeare Library’s 2016 national tour First Folio! The Book that Gave Us Shakespeare, marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death.
Only 233 copies exist of the First Folio—the first collected edition of Shakespeare’s plays published in 1623--less than a third of the 750 thought to have been printed originally in 1623, and one will be on exhibit at the Kansas City Public Library's Central branch in downtown Kansas City. A single exhibit location was selected in each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, and Kansas. Published seven years after Shakespeare's death, the First Folio was the first compilation of his plays. Eighteen of the works, including Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It, had never appeared previously in print and otherwise would have been lost. When the First Folio arrives in Kansas City, its pages will be opened to the most quoted line in the world: "to be or not to be" from Hamlet. Accompanying the 900-page book will be a multi-panel exhibition exploring the significance of Shakespeare, then and now, with additional digital content and interactive activities. The Kansas City Public Library will make the four-week exhibit the centerpiece of a months-long celebration of Shakespeare, partnering with local and national scholars and an array of area institutions and organizations in offering speaking presentations, stage productions, film screenings and discussions, workshops, and other activities for children and adults. Other dates and locations for the 2016 exhibit are available here. More information on the exhibit available in the library's press release. |
William Shakespeare
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This program co-presented in partnership support from The Kansas City Public Library.
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