Interviews  

NORMAN CORWIN is the premiere writer and producer of radio theatre in America’s ‘Golden Age’ of radio, creating some of the most important programs such as The Columbia Workshop. Corwin wrote for and directed such talents as Orson Welles, Groucho Marx and Jimmy Stewart. Corwin has won two Peabody Medals, an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and an Oscar nomination for his script of Lust For Life. Corwin was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1993. Now in his 90's Corwin continues teaching and writing. Ray Bradbury has hailed Corwin as “the greatest director, the greatest writer and the greatest producer in the history of radio."
 

DIRK MAGGS is internationally recognised as one of the greatest audio theatre producers working today.  His many awards include a Writer’s Guild Award and a Talkie for his production of An American Werewolf in London and an American Audie for Superman: Doomsday and Beyond.   Maggs combines the populist sensibility of American OTR entertainment with state-of-the-art digital production and cinematic soundscapes.   On hearing his work, the late Douglas Adams chose Dirk Maggs to adapt and direct the last three novels of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy for BBC Radio 4.

 

PAUL DEELEY, a director of the Soundhouse studios, London, is one of Britain’s leading figures in radio theatre. Besides engineering scores of radio plays each year, Deeley has also worked closely with producer Dirk Maggs on many of his most noteworthy productions including Batman, Spiderman & Superman.
 
SUSAN SHERIDAN is one of Britain's leading voice actors in a career spanning 3 decades. As well as being Trillion in the original Hitchhiker radio series, Susan has also voiced countless animations, commercials, stage and film work and appeared in scores of radio plays.
 
YURI RASOVSKY has created hundreds of audio drama productions heard around the world and has won numerous awards including one Grammy, two Peabody broadcasting awards, two Audie Awards and the Bradbury Award.
 
PHIL PROCTOR has received 3 Grammy nominations as a member of the comedy troupe The Firesign Theatre. A leading voice actor in Hollywood, Proctor is a cast member of Rugrats, the voice of American Big Brother as well as voicing scores of animated features for Disney, Pixar and Nickelodeon.
 

TOM LOPEZ is President and driving creative force behind the ZBS Foundation. He is a writer/producer who has written over 140 hours of daily radio serials and weekly series. Lopez has received various awards, including the Prix Italia Special Prize for his binaural radio opera, "The Maltese Goddess."

 

SUE ZIZZA is the Executive Director of the National Audio Theatre Festivals [ NATF ]. Zizza's work as writer, director and sound designer, has been honoured by The Gabriels, The National Federation of Community Broadcasters, The International Radio Festival, and The Communicator Awards.

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