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The Audio Theatre Workshop Archives: The Demo

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 [...]

2009 Demo

Sounds from the 2009 Audio Theatre Workshop featuring Dwight Frizzell & Michael Henry’s opera “Darwin”, and Eric Somers & Meredith Ludwig’s oral history project “Over There”. Your browser does not support the audio element, an html5 tag. Please download the .mp3 file.

2008 Demo

The 2008 Audio Theatre Workshop features a unique mix of Shakespeare & Cowboy Poetry. The roundup includes Cowboy Poet “Buckshot Dot” & western singer Sue Harris. Sam Mowry directs Shakespeare from “Macbeth” to a unique performance with Barbara Rosenblat in “The Taming of the Shrew”. And Ellen Stewart directs Diane Cook’s Appalachian story “Where the [...]

2007 Demo

Sounds from the 2007 Audio Theatre Workshop include “The Umbrella Man” written by Tom Lopez and performed by Bill Dufris & Barbara Caruso, Native Radio Theater’s performance of “The Peach Seed” written by Rhiana Yazzie, and the sound art piece “Sonic Force” written and composed by Dwight Frizzell and Michael Henry. Your browser does not [...]

2006 Demo

The Native Radio Theater Project joins NATF at the 2006 Audio Theatre Workshop. Native performance artist Thirza DeFoe and flute maker Jerry Fretwell usher us into the week. Performances include: “It’s Never too Late to Have a Happy Childhood” directed by Tom Lopez with performances by Jean Bruce Scott and Thirza DeFoe, and “Melba’s Medicine [...]

2005 Demo

Sounds from the 2005 Audio Theatre Workshop featuring “Homefront” written by Patrick Bradley and directed by Marjorie Van Halteren, “Extra-Ordinary” with Bill Dufris as Walter the cat, “Hear in West Plains” a sound collage of area residents reflecting on the Ozarks recorded and edited by Tom Lopez, and Simon Jones performing his “race against sound”. [...]