Meet the Artists: Sue Zizza

Roger Gregg of Ireland’s Crazy Dog Audio Theatre talks to Sue Zizza creator of Radio Works and Executive Director of the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc.

For almost 20 years Sue Zizza has been producing national award winning audio drama programming. Her series The Radio Works, now in its 12th year, is heard on almost 70 public radio stations coast-to-coast and internationally. She is a writer, director, producer and sound designer specializing in live (foley) effects for audio and the stage. Sue is a member of the faculty at the New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts where she teaches recording and sound design. Additionally, she teaches audio production workshops throughout the country and is the past Executive Director of the National Audio Theatre Festivals. Over the years Sue’s work, has been honored by The Gabriels, The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, The International Radio Festival, and The Communicator Awards.
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Meet the Artists: Yuri Rasovsky

 

An Interview with noted American Audio Dramatist YURI RASOVSKY.

Recorded the 16 July 2002.

Roger Gregg of Ireland’s Crazy Dog Audio Theatre talks to Yuri Rasovsky.

Yuri Rasovsky has worked professionally in theater and broadcasting as actor, writer, director and producer for nearly 30 years. Since he founded the National Radio Theater (1972-1987), he has created hundreds of radio productions heard on commercial and public radio outlets around the world. Rasovsky is the most honored Audio Dramatist working in the United States. Over the past 3 decades he has won two George Foster Peabody awards, five Ohio State awards, The APA Audie Award, four Major Armstrong awards, two Corporation for Public Broadcasting awards, The Independent Publishers Audio Award, The Gabriel Award, The Joseph Jefferson Award, the NFCB Golden Reel, the Mark Time Lifetime Achievement Award and the SFWA Bradbury Award. He is also contributing editor, to AudioFile magazine . For the millennium he created 2000X for NPR, a series of 40 plays with science fiction themes. He is currently the executive producer/director of The Hollywood Theater of the Ear .

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Meet the Artists: Phil Proctor

A Discussion with Phil Proctor on All Things Audio Theatre Recorded Saturday 11 January 2003. 
Phil Proctor is a member of the legendary, 3 time Grammy nominated American audio comedy troupe THE FIRESIGN THEATRE. He is also a noted actor, voicing countless parts for animations such as the voice of Phil & Lil’s dad, Howard, on Rugrats. He has also created many popular characters in animated Disney and Pixar feature films including the drunken French monkey in Eddy Murphy’s Dr. Dolittle series and Charlie, the whistle-blowing manager, in Monsters, Inc.Presently, as part of THE FIRESIGN THEATRE, Proctor contributes comedy to National Public Radio’s nationally syndicated All Things Considered programme. 

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Meet the Artists: Tom Lopez

Roger Gregg of Ireland’s Crazy Dog Audio Theatre talks to Tom Lopez of ZBS.Tom Lopez is President of ZBS Foundation. He is a writer/producer who has written about 140 hours of daily radio serials and weekly series, including “The Fourth Tower of Inverness,” “Moon Over Morocco,” “Ruby,” “Stars & Stuff,” “Travels with Jack,” “The Taj Express,” etc. He has received various awards, including the Prix Italia Special Prize for his binaural radio opera, “The Maltese Goddess.”

He’s is also a recording engineer and has gathered sounds in such exotic locales as: the Amazon, Belize, Costa Rica, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Morocco, India, and so on.

He is now editing/mixing a new series, “Dreams of the Blue Morpho,” and writing a second series, “Somewhere Next Door to Reality.”

Recorded Saturday the 20 July 2002.
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