About the six incredible producers who are part of Transcontinental Terror.
The Wireless Theatre Company (London, England)
The award-winning Wireless Theatre Company launched in 2007 and quickly established itself as one of the most well-respected audio companies on the internet, producing all free, original audio drama, comedy, stories, poems, sketches and more for download to iPods.
WTC have worked with hundreds of people in four years, including much-loved radio performers and writers such as Prunella Scales, Timothy West, Nicholas Parsons (Patron), Julian Glover, Richard O’Brien and Ray Galton. WTC realizes one new production a month, as well as several live audio recordings a year.
WTC also creates audio horror productions with www.3Dhorrorfi.com using binarual recording techniques for 3D sound. Visit www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk for free audio productions.
Electric Vicuña Productions (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
Electric Vicuña Productions is the production company founded by Jack Ward and Shannon Hilchie of The Sonic Society — the longest-running showcase of Modern Audio Theatre, run out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Their shows include The Dead Line Anthologies, Shorts, The Wavefront Anthology, Consortium Comics, Shadowlands Theatre, Gate, and The Jack and Shannon Show, among other series.
FinalRune Productions (Portland, Maine)
FinalRune Productions is dedicated to producing compelling original audio drama. Since their creation in 2006, FinalRune has released over a dozen original works, including the Ogle-Award winning “Waiting for a Window,” the pilot episode of “Open Season” by Archer Mayor (featured in The Wall Street Journal), and the cautionary tale “The Troll of Stony Brook.” FinalRune’s work is recorded on-location, using techniques similar to independent filmmaking for an immersive and realistic aural experience. Downloads of plays, production photographs, and articles on the craft are available on FinalRune’s website, http://www.finalrune.com.
Chatterbox Audio Theater (Memphis, Tennessee)
Chatterbox Audio Theater is an audio production company based in Memphis, TN. Chatterbox favors simultaneous performances and manual sound effects, preferring to create their shows with as little post-production editing as possible.
Chatterbox shows include adaptations of classic literature (including James Joyce, Herman Melville, Greek myths, and others), original stories (such as the 2007 Silver Ogle Award winner “The Dead Girl”), sketch comedy, thrillers, dramas, children’s stories, and more.
Since launching in September of 2007, Chatterbox has posted some 50 shows to its website, www.chatterboxtheater.org. All of Chatterbox’s productions (including live Halloween performances from 2008 through 2010) are available through its website at no charge. You may also subscribe to the group’s podcast on iTunes.
Icebox Radio Theater (International Falls, Minnesota)
The Icebox Radio Theater of International Falls, Minnesota, USA, has many faces and many voices. It is a community theater in a small town. It is a media arts organization with a global audience. It is dedicated to promoting and telling the stories of a very unique region. And it is dedicated to artistic growth. Most of all, the IBRT is dedicated to the idea that in the Internet Age, great art can be created anywhere and enjoyed by everyone.
The IBRT has produced both live radio theater before paying audiences, and recorded ‘in studio’ in its home at the Backus Community Center in International Falls. It is award winning, most recently bringing home a Silver Ogle Award for best Fantasy or Horror audio in 2009 for last Halloween’s offering: “The Thing on the Ice.” It is an eclectic theater featuring stories of comedy, mystery, horror, science fiction, drama, and adventure, all with some tie to the region the theater calls home.
The IBRT has a twice-monthly podcast, has been heard on radio stations from coast-to-coast, and this year is embarking on a membership campaign.
The Willamette Radio Workshop (Portland, Oregon)
The Willamette Radio Workshop is a professional theatrical organization dedicated to the creation of original material for presentation on the Radio, Internet, as Compact Disks or whatever audio venues are available or appropriate. We produce our shows both in studio and at live venues. As an organization we want to acknowledge the influence and preserve the history of Radio Theatre as we work to create its present. To this end our work also includes re-creations or re-imaginings of Classic Radio programs.