Dr. Will Anderson of Central Michigan University is calling for Audio Theatre topics to be presented at the Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association conference in October. As the chair for the Radio division, please direct your inquiries to Will at Ander1ww {at} cmich(.)edu – Will is a former NATF Member and has participated several times in the NATF Script competition.
Interested, but have a paper outside the realm of Audio Drama? Check the MPCA/ACA website for the right chairperson to contact.
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The National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc. congratulates Tom Lopez for 40 years of “mindful entertainment” as ZBS reaches a milestone! More Jack! More Ruby! More film noirs! www.zbs.org!
On May 3, 2010, the first poet laureate of radio and National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc. Advisory Board Member, Norman Corwin, the author, director, and producer of some of radio’s greatest dramas including We Hold These Truths and On a Note of Triumph, will turn 100 years old (www.normancorwin.com). In his honor the NATF is initiating a new award, presented each year to an audio dramatist in the United States who has contributed significant achievements to this art form. And the first recipient of the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio will be its namesake.
Audio theatre is not just for radio, explains NATF Board Chairman Steve Donofrio, “It started on cylinder recordings, and today flourishes vibrantly on the internet. For over 30 years, we have been finding, inspiring and training new young talent; fostering the development of audio theatre for modern audiences; and exploring the possibilities of new technologies. Norman Corwin has honored us by serving on our Advisory Board and actively helping our work, leading seminars during our annual Workshop. We are tremendously excited by this chance to honor him, and we believe the Corwin Award will make a major contribution to audio theatre in the 21st Century and beyond.”
Stay tuned, ladies and gentlemen, because we’re just getting started!
Native Radio Theater is proud to announce two new programs that will be coming to the airwaves and streaming over the Internet starting in November.The Red Road:Written and performed by Arigon Starr (Kickapoo/Creek), this one-woman show takes audiences straight to the heart of Indian Country by stepping back to the summer of 1977.
Raven’s Radio Hour celebrates the vast diversity of Alaska Native cultures with this heart warmingly funny radio show that features timeless stories, traditional songs and jokes.
Contact your local public, community or tribal radio station to find out when these and other great Native Radio Theater productions will be on the radio dial in your area. Click here.
You can also listen live on the AIROS livestream. Check out current feedtimes. Click here.
Read more about these and other great Native Radio Theater productions. Click here.
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Since the inception of the National Audio Theatre Festivals, the commitment to the production of new works for audio has been a vital part of our mission. The NATF is currently looking for world premiere audio dramas for future inclusion in our Audio Theatre Workshop live productions. Moreover, we are looking for stories written specifically for the medium of audio that exemplify the human experience, that hold a mirror to life, that will make you think. The type of material we are seeking:
World-premiere full length audio plays or musicals, 25 – 30 minutes in length
World-premiere ten minute audio plays or musicals (tell a story from beginning to end in ten minutes!)
World-premiere five minute audio plays (same as above…in five minutes or less! It can be done!)
We do not accept: stage plays, short stories, adaptations, or spoofs/satires of old time radio programs (or anything with allusions to old time radio).
To submit a full-length audio play for consideration at the National Audio Theatre Festival ATW, please send the following materials:
· An introductory cover letter and theatrical resume
· A one-page synopsis of the play you wish to submit
· Five pages of dialogue from the play
After considering your submission, we will let you know via e-mail if we would like the full script. We will respond to every submission, and we apologize if said response takes longer than expected.
To submit a five or ten minute audio play for consideration at the National Audio Theatre Festival ATW, please send the following materials:
· An introductory cover letter and theatrical resume
· The full play
These materials should be sent by e-mail to: newplays {at} natf(.)org (spelled out to keep out those nasty spambots).
Please note: the format for audio drama is different from that of stage plays and screenplays. Please visit the Resources page to learn how to do it!
The NATF Summer newsletter is now available for download!
NATF wishes to congratulate the winners of the 2009 Mark Time and Ogle awards, including productions by NATF Members Fred Greenhalgh and Roger Gregg.
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 NATF congratulates Native American musician and performer Thirza Defoe for being a featured performer on the Grammy Award Winning Album Come to Me Great Mystery Native American Healing Songs
 Tom Wasinger, producer The album won the category Best Native American Music Album (Vocal or Instrumental.)
( Various Artists)
This stunning collection of all new recordings is another unique conceptual project by Grammy Award winning producer Tom Wasinger. As with his ground breaking World Music and Native American Lullaby collections, he works with with a talented and experienced cast of Native American singers including Thirza Defoe, Doug Foote, Lorain Fox, Allen Mose, and Dorothy Tsatoke. Together they create a healing sound that truly touches the human spirit.
 Thirza (center) reviewing audio with writer Rhiana Yazzie and producer John GreggPhoto- Janine Marr Thirza was an active participant in acting and musical performances at the 2006Audio Theatre Workshop. Thirza’s melodic and enchanting flute playing always drew a crowd. Even while Dianne Ballon was editing Thirza’s interview about her week at the Audio Theatre Workshop (ATW), folks would stop and stick their head in the edit studio to listen.
 Photo by Advance Photo Studios, Atlanta For the fifth year in a row, the Atlanta branches of AFTRA (American Federation of Television and Radio Artists), sag (Screen Actors Guild), and Equity (Actors’ Equity Association) combined forces to raise money for the Atlanta Food Bank. This year over 30 such members performed 6 classic Old Time Radio plays and included special guest star Bill Tush and his fellow cast member, comedian Rob Cleveland from the TBS Tush Show. Some of the politics in the scripts could not have been more timely. Co-producer Barry Stolze reported that the event generated over $1,600—or more than $13,000 worth of buying power for the acfb partnering with food suppliers. Now that’s swell!
By Marideth Sisco
Gary Phillips, a member of NATF’s 2007 “Freshman Class” (now Workshop 101) was surprised to learn that the audio play his group created and performed placed third in the first annual audio competition sponsored by the Missouri Review. But he wasn’t surprised they’d gotten a look.
 NATF's Freshman Class 2008. Back row: Diane Cook (left) Sue Zizza (Center) and Mike Wilson (Right) Seated: Lucus Keppel, Hugh Murphy, Martin Hayden, Evan Waters and Eric Somers. “The group combined multiple story lines into a “turkey” of a play, called AVIAN INVASION,” said Phillips. The basic plot was that turkeys from outer space land in the United States on Thanksgiving Day. All they know of us is what they saw in a broadcast of Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. It was a comedy, if you can believe it. I am expecting it to hit Broadway anytime now.”
Phillips, who teaches Communications at Missouri State University in West Plains, MO, said he’s a newcomer to audio theater. “My bread and butter is the Fundamentals of Public Speaking. I do occasionally get to teach a theatre class.” All that changed, he said, after his experience with the Freshman Class.
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