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July 1996 - present |
Contributing Editor/Reviewer: AudioFile magazine | |
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Writer of column, features
and reviews for national consumer magazine devoted to audiobooks.
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Sept 1993 - present |
Artistic Producing Director, The Hollywood Theater of the Ear | |
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Most recently produced and directed 2000x,
a series of 26 futuristic one-hour dramatic programs for National Public
Radio and Audible.com; Jurgen, 10-hour "narrator's
theater" adaptation of novel by James Branch Cabell, for Fantastic
Audio.
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Dec 1975 - present |
Freelance consultant, writer-producer-director of spoken arts radio programs and recordings, print-media arts writer and critic | |
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Clients have included: Audio Renaissance, Bantam
Doubleday Dell Audio, Blackstone Audio, British Broadcast Corporation, Canadian
Broadcasting Company, Chicago magazine, Chicago Sun-Times,
Dick Orkin Creative Services (DOCSI), KPCC Pasadena, Marketplace,
National Public Radio, Stagebill magazine, The President’s
Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, Simon & Schuster Audio, University of Chicago, Western Public Radio, WFMT
Chicago, WNIB Chicago, among others
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Nov 1972 - Dec 1986 |
Executive Producer/Artistic Director: The National Radio Theater of Chicago | |
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Leadership of award-winning
non-profit production company, including artistic direction, fiscal
management of annual budgets of up to $1 million, grantsmanship;
produced and directed weekly dramatic series heard locally from 1973
through 1980, then syndicated nationally 1981 - 1983; specials and
mini-series 1984 - 1987: Of Thee I Sing, World Rep, A Midsummer
Night's Dream, Dateline 1787.
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| Awards and Honors | ||
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1974, ‘76, ‘79, ‘89 |
Major Armstrong Award Ohio State Award Joseph Jefferson Award George Foster Peabody Award NFCB Golden Reel Corporation for Public Broadcasting Program Award San Francisco State Broadcast Media Award Gabriel Award Recording Academy Grammy Award (co-producer) Publishers Weekly Listen Up Award Independent Publishers Award for Original Audio Mark Time Lifetime Achievement Award Audio Publishers Association Audie Award Science Fiction Writers of America Bradbury Award Award of Excellence, The Communicator Awards |
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| Books | ||
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1975 |
The Publicity Survival Manual for Small Performing Arts Organizations. The Chicago Alliance for the Performing Arts. | |
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1988 |
WKID - Easy Radio Plays. Carol Adorjan, co-writer. Albert Whitman & Co. | |
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2006 |
The Well-tempered Audio Dramatist.
National Audio Theater Festivals, National Endowment for the Arts. 2006. |
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| Related Professional Activity | ||
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1976 |
Grants panelist, National Endowment
for the Arts. Founder, Audio Independents, trade association for radio producers. Grants panelist, Chicago Council of Fine Arts. Sole radio honoree, Pres. Reagan’s first White House Luncheon on the Arts. Grants panelist, National Endowment for the Humanities. U.S. delegate, European Broadcasting Union Radio Drama Conference. Judge, Audio Publishers Association Audie Awards. Guest lecturer, instructor: Columbia College (Chicago), Loyola University (Chicago), Northwestern University, Pepperdine, Purdue, University of Pennsylvania, Yale |
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| Professional Memberships | ||
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Actors Equity Association • American Federation of Television and Radio Artists • Audio Publishers Association • Screen Actors Guild | |
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