Each summer for one week at the annual Audio Theatre Workshop, participants from all over the country converge to learn, create, perform and produce Audio Theater. I am the “roving recordist”. I collect the sounds and stories of what we hope to create in a week’s time: finding out what the sound effects crew is working on, eavesdropping in on a rehearsal, recording the pieces as they become our final performance. From an empty stage and a handful of scripts to a stage baffled for sound and filled with microphones, suddenly we are performing live.

What you will hear throughout the years is many of our special guests sharing their knowledge with us. You will hear the voices of participants and find out what they’re learning. And, you will get a sense of the urgency and accomplishment (for this happens in a week’s time), and the true adventure of the week.

Hats off to my fellow producers and engineers in those early years of 2001-2003 when we worked as a team producing the Demo: Lindsay Ellison, Ben Taylor, Thom Hutchison and Janine Marr. Since then I’ve been working solo. Here then, are the Demos by year, or what I like to call “The Audio Postcards”.

Dianne Ballon
Sound Artist
Demo Producer / NATF Teaching and Production Staff