And now Audio Theater Central. Hello, welcome to Audio Theater Central. This
is the show that explores family friendly audio drama through news, reviews and interviews.
I'm your host, JD. Sutter, and this is episode one eighty
five. Well, welcome to this bonus episode. If this is your first
time here, this is not a typical episode of the show. In this
episode, we're going to be sharing the replay of the sixth Annual ATC Seneca
Awards. In case you missed the live broadcast and haven't had a chance to
hop over to the Seneca's website and listen there, we're dropping it here in
the podcast feed. But if you did catch it already, stick around because
we're going to be sharing the winner's acceptance speeches at the end of the replay,
and before that, we're going to be going through a few audio drama
updates. So stick around and let's jump into it. Now. We interrupt
this program to bring you a special report and in other news tonight, a
brief look at the headlines. Now. I want exciting, fast piece news
that's relevant and entertaining like this. First of all, I just want to
say real quickly, thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who
has sent in feedback on the last episode regarding the future of the Seneca Awards.
There has been some great feedback from industry folks and fans alike, so
thank you, thank you very much. I really appreciate it. I'm trying
to get through it all and respond, but I don't know if I'm gonna
be able to actually reply to every single email. I think this is probably
the most feedback on a single episode within a few days that I've had it
in a very, very long time, and that is not a bad thing.
That is great. So I just want to say thank you, and
I will be answering some of the more common questions in the next episode,
so it'll be sure to stick around for that. Well. As I'm sure
you're aware, Sonicon is coming up here in November, and I just wanted
to give a quick update that the New Works Festival winners were announced just recently.
The top three selections will be performed live at the event, so if
you are a voice actor who's going to be there, there will be an
opportunity for you to audition for the roles for those shows. And also the
full schedule was also just published on the website so all of the master classes
and sessions have been announced. Now some things might change a little bit,
but for the most part that is locked in. So all of that is
on the Sonicon website. Also, though, I want to make sure to
mention that if you are an audio drama producer, do not miss out on
the chance to become an exhibitor in the exhibition Hall. It does not cost
you any extra. You just have to pay for your weekend pass and you
can be an exhibitor at the event. All you have to do is make
sure to fill out the sign up form on this Onicon website as well,
So there's a link which says exhibit or sign up form really really easy.
But you know, it is a great opportunity for you to get the word
out about what you're doing. And if you have any kind of business that's
related to audio drama or recording or anything that is pertinent to this industry.
It doesn't necessarily have to be a show, but if you have a product
or service that is geared towards the audio industry, be sure to check that
out as well. Because we really want to grow the exhibition Hall this time,
and it's grown every year and so we just want to see that be
filled up and have lots of great options and so it's you know, it's
a great opportunity for you to network and just to get to know other people
in the industry in addition to all of the classes and sessions and things like
that. So be sure to check that out again. It's all at the
Sonic On website and it is linked here in our show notes as well.
Now, in the last episode I mentioned the flat Eugene photo contest. I
want to just real quickly mention that again because it is coming up here in
just a few days, starting in October, and more information is out.
Now you can go ahead and print out your flat Eugene and get ready to
start taking photos. Some people are already submitting photos, but the actual contest
begins in October. So all you do is print out flat Eugene, take
him around and get photos based on a prompt that is going to be shared
for every day, and you share that either on social media with a hashtag,
or you can email it into the Odyssey Moments email address. There's a
link to where you need to go to print out the image, and all
of that information is in the show notes of this episode, so be sure
to join in the fun on the Flat Eugene contest put on by Odyssey Moments.
Now. Also in the last episode, we talked about a couple of
anniversaries, and another one is happening this month in September, and that is
Unshackled is celebrating seventy three years of producing radio drama and this is really cool.
They're going to be having an event on September twenty third, which is
right around the corner. I know that this is a very late notice,
so hopefully you're listening to this at the time of release, but they are
going to be recording a special episode in front of a live audience and offering
tours of the Unshackled history exhibit. So this is a Saturday, September twenty
third at three pm at Pacific Garden Mission in Chicago. So links in the
show notes to check that out, and you do have to register, so
if you're interested at all, be sure to hit that link up really really
soon. All right, now that we've covered all of the event information,
let's move on to upcoming audio dramas. Now, this one is in the
very very early stages. I don't have any specific information about this one other
than a couple of little details. But in August, a casting call went
out for a new biblical audio drama on the life of Moses and it is
called Believing the Promise, and John Fornoff was the casting director for this production
and Kathy Buchanan will be directing it. And that is all that I have
at this moment. So this is just a little bitty teaser here, something
to keep an eye out for. Hopefully we'll get a little more information on
that a little ways down the road. Also coming up is the newest audio
drama from Lamplider Theater. It's called Hungering and Thirsting. We have talked about
this before. It is their first musical and it is now available for pre
order, So just wanted to real quickly mention that you can go ahead and
reserve your copy of that. It is not released yet, but it is
available for pre order, and here is the official summary. On a torn
scrap of paper, Kitty discovers a strange message that sends her in search of
answers. Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst. Meanwhile, a young
entrepreneur wonders how God can be good if little children like Jamie have to suffer
so much. All is not as it seems in this unforgettable drama that unveils
the deep mysteries of life. See unlikely heroes rise to save the day,
revealing the truth about God and what it means to be truly blessed in the
most unexpected of ways. So that is Hungering and Thirsting from Lamplider Theater,
now available for pre order. And also I mentioned last time the new season
of Base Camp Adventures is on its way and the first episode is out now.
So this is volume six of Base Camp Adventures and it is called Return.
So here is a little promo for the new volume of base Camp Adventures.
Keep running base Campers administering Tranquilizer via Projectile. Now my name is Abekraus,
and on Base Camp Adventures, I play Albert. Worry not Piper.
I'll be confiscating the dinosaur specimens and all the portal technology from my daughter.
It's like an older, grown up version, but he's still got the fun
to him, which which is really great. So when I first started,
I think I was eleven or twelve, my voice was obviously a lot higher
and just there was quoted more like the boy Outburt. And over the years
it's just you know, growing up now and it's gotten a lot in deep
bur and so when he was getting older, just kind of like progression over
time. I liked in the very one of the first ones we've done when
he made forest Poppers in one of the first ones, and I always just
thought, I was like, no, that was really such a fun moment
because it was my first time doing it and getting to see like what he
gets into, and like it was just like it was really fun just getting
to record that and do that. The film takes place in a galaxy full
of amazing technology, space travel, and unique creatures. Enjoy, but keep
an ear out for the message within the planet Drew thrown world up the Radiant
Empire. See anything on the hollow Scope? Not yet. He should be
back by now. The Imperial Palace isn't that far away by grab bike and
his meeting was scheduled for hours ago. You're rambling again. You know you
ramble when you get nervous. Yeah, yeah, wait, I see him.
He's crusting the horizon across the salt flat. Will good to see you
back. Did you get it? I got it, but I still can't
believe it how much fifty billion units follow us on Spotify. Click the belt
to be notified as new episodes are released. When I heard that, I
was really happy to hear that the character of Albert is sticking around. I
know that a lot of characters are changing because they're you know, they're kind
of aging out of the show, they're growing up, so they've brought in
some new characters, but I was glad to hear that Albert is sticking around.
So new stuff from base Camp Adventures releasing now. Now, if you
don't know, one of the people that was very instrumental in getting Base Camp
Adventures started is Evan David Well. Now he has moved on from Life Action
Ministries and is now at Focus on the Family, working on the marketing for
Adventures and Odyssey and of course the comics. Well, if you didn't know,
Evan also writes other comics as well, and he has been writing and
working on various different series for quite some time. And he actually has a
Patreon where you can support him and get new pages of these new comics as
they are being completed. So I just wanted to give a shout out to
Evan for his work doing you know, clean, family friendly comics, and
I'm I'm sure there are those of you in the ATC community who are not
just fans of audio drama but also enjoy some good, clean comics as well.
So I'm linking Evans Patreon in the show notes. Go check that out
and if it sounds like something you would be interested in supporting, be sure
to jump on board and lend him a buck or two and check out all
the work that he's doing in the world of comics. Well, that'll do
it for the audio drama updates. Let's go ahead and jump into the replay
of the sixth ATC Seneca Awards, which aired on August twenty five, twenty
three. It is about eighty seven minutes long, and then as that wraps
up, we'll jump into the winner's speeches, so stick around. Welcome to
the sixth annual Audio Theater Central Seneca Awards, presented by Portelite Family Media.
The ATC Seneca Awards honor excellence in the world of family friendly audio drama,
and tonight's broadcast is brought to you in part by our fantastic partners Blueberry Podcasting.
The twelve thirty two audio epic from Rumble Stump Entertainment, Adagiots, Odyssey,
fan dot Com and the Script Digital Library. And now here is your
host, JDS Sutter. Thank you very much, Heidi. I am JD.
Sutter and I am coming at you tonight from Phoenix, Arizona. Thank
you so much for joining me for tonight's broadcast. A huge, huge welcome
to both industry professionals and audio drama fans alike. As Heidi said, tonight,
we're going to be recognizing some of the top talents in this industry actors,
posers, sound designers, and writers. And in addition to the awards,
we are also going to be hearing from this year's guest presenters, voice
actress Chris Anthony Lansdowne and actor and writer Nato Jacobson. I'm really excited to
hear from them, and I know you're going to enjoy it as well.
Let me start off by seeing a huge congratulations to all of the nominees this
year. The year of twenty twenty two was challenging in a lot of ways
for a lot of different people, but we had some amazing audio drama that
was produced in this year, and so tonight, we're going to be awarding
the winners in twelve different categories, four productions released in twenty twenty two,
including the People's Choice Audio Drama of the Year, which is voted on by
you the fans. Well, if you are listening to us live on August
twenty five, be sure to join the chat room that is right there on
the website at the Senecas dot org so you can join in the conversation with
other fans as we progress through the program tonight. Also want to say thank
you to our radio syndication partners nine twenty wo in the Apple in New York
and porch Light FM Radio. Tonight, we're also going to be sharing the
public premiere of the teaser for a brand new series from a new production house,
so that'll be coming up later on tonight. And I also want to
say thank you to our sponsors. We could not do this without them.
Please support them and thank them for their support of the Senecas. You can
click through the links on the awards homepage. Well, one final note before
we move on to tonight's program, I recently heard from a couple of different
places somebody referring to these as JD's Awards or something to that effect. And
I just want to say, these are not JD's awards. These are your
awards. If you are involved in the family friendly audio drama industry, these
are for you. While I may be the voice, there are numerous folks
behind the scenes who are making this possible, including a committee of voting members
who listen to every single nominated production every year beforecasting their votes. I only
have one vote, so I do not deserve this soul credit here. I
do not want this to be about me again. If you are involved in
this industry, these awards are for you. These are your awards, all
right, Without any further ado, let's move on to our first entertainment segment
of the night before we announce any winners. And we're going to start off
with a short piece that was produced by the Audio Drama Alliance. And this
is a group of mostly newer talent in the audio drama industry who collaborate on
projects together and assist one another in their own work. And it was founded
by Christopher Green many years ago and came under the porch Light Family Media umbrella
in the last few years. Now. This piece that we're featuring tonight is
called Senior Sawyer and it was written by Austin Peachy, ATC contributor and host
of the Odyssey Geek podcast. So, in this short comedy piece, we
are going to visit the fictional character's retirement home, and we're going to check
in on an elderly Tom Sawyer to see what sort of shenanigans he's getting into
these days. The Audio Drama Alliance. Welcome to the historical and fictional Characters
with Iron at Home for historical and fictional characters who have retired in a home.
In the dining hall, we find Tom Sawyer as he attempts to get
out of the difficult predicaments. Well, Tom Sawyer, I ain't seen you
in quite a long spell. What you're doing there? Are you actually eating
prunes? Ah? Hello, they're ben. I was just going to play
bingo with Jim. But I reckon, you can't with all those prunes you
have to eat? No, what does you mean I have to? I'm
savor in these here, victuals. I doubt that highly you is one of
the few people here that don't care for prunes. Oh please suit me,
just fine, I got these here prunes all the way from France. Please
is the bestest in the world from France? Yep, Paris. Please say
they water the trees there with honey and spring water. M give some the
bestest taste you ever did have? Hm, you Rick, and I could
have the rest of them on your plate. You're fooling around? Why would
I give him to you? I actually love me some prunes. I ain't
had some sense Friday. Oh is this Friday? Help you like? Wait?
That was just yesterday. I knows it, But I'm craving some now.
I ain't sure they're they're pretty costly. Well, here I'll show you
the bunny and I have here on my right foot. It's a whole lot
bigger than the one on my left. Oh that does sound interesting, but
I don't think. And I'll let you have my new set of false teeth,
the ones from New Orleans. Well, my false teeth are getting rather
warm. All right, here you go, Thank you. I'm sure shame
on you. Oh no, here comes my wife, Hello, Becky,
and shame on you too. Ben Rogers, you get out of here.
I told Tom he's got to eat all those prunes. Doc's orders. I
think you'll be again to that bingo game. Now you do that, Now
finish them? There Pruned Tom and no more mischief. I don't know what
I got to do to get you to eat prunes. Maybe I should think
my death again next time. Thank you for joining Tom Sawyer as he once
again got into some more shenanigans in the Historical and Fictional Characters Retirement Home for
historical and fictional characters who have retired in a home. Senior Sawyer was written
by Austin Peachey. Our cust was John Tuttle the Third as Ben, Michael
the Favor as Tom, and Bethany Baldwin as Becky. Our executive producer is
JD. Sutter as Raloza was our director. Voice track editing by Bethany Burnett,
Music composed by Dominic Trice, Sound design and mixing by Mark Mulcahy.
I'm Ashley Banker. Thanks for listening. Well. If you would like to
hear more from the Audio Drama Alliance, you can check out every single one
of their productions at Audio Drama Alliance dot com. And you're going to want
to keep an eye on that site because I know that there are some really
really cool projects that are gonna be coming from that group in the next several
months that I know, I know you're going to want to check out,
so be sure to visit that website and bookmarket. Do people still bookmark things?
I don't know? All right, Let's move into our first awards category,
and that is for Best Cover Art, Heidi, who are our nominee?
Best Cover Art? Twenty eight Hours Adventures in Odyssey Album seventy three from
Focus on the Family, The Little Red Hen from the Academy of Arts,
The Long Road Home Adventures in Odyssey Album seventy two from Focus on the Family,
Straight On Till Dawn, Brinkman Adventures Season nine from Beach Glass Ministries,
Three Christmas Trees from marky Witz Audio Works Bright and the winner is Straight On
Till Dawn from The Brinkman Adventures. This is season nine and it is from
Beach Glass Ministries. Congratulations to The Brinkman Adventures. And our next category is
Script Heidi Best Script. Canoes in the Sky Your Story Hour written by Carolyn
Griggs, The Honor of Obed Edam Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family
written by Dave Arnold. The Lost One Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the
Family written by Martial Younger, King Jack Lamplighter Theater written by Mark hamby Cathy
Buchanan and Molly Mayo Knox on Love Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family
written by Phil Wawler, and The Winner is the Lost One written by Marshall
Younger. I don't know all these rules, Olivia. We just had a
play to do. That's the other thing. You had a play to do.
Yeah, why would you have to do this play? Now? Why
couldn't you have just waited? Wait for well? The timing it just seems
very strange to me. What are you talking about? I don't know what
is your plan to punish me by having to sit there and watch Priscilla Peterson
watch the Old Testament. That's mean. Priscilla is a good actress and you
know it, but you didn't write the part for her. In mind,
you wrote it for me, and you didn't even let me know you were
finished. Stop what's going on here? Because it feels like no matter what
I do, it's gonna be wrong. You get mad at me for including
you, you get mad at me for excluding you. I'm so afraid of
seeing something that will offend you that we've stopped talking altogether, and I'm tired
of it. Can you please just tell me what to do so I can
get off this roller coaster. Yeah, you can keep your promises or stop
making them. Congratulations Marshall. Our next category is Best Original Score. Our
nominees are Best Original Score twenty eight hours Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the
Family composed by John Campbell. The Adventum Volume five from Wise King Media,
composed by John Campbell, Knox on Love, Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on
the Family composed by Jared Di Pasqual, Silk and Swenson from BYU Radio composed
by Daniel Davis. Weapons of Our Warfare Jonathan Park Series nineteen from Wise King
Media, composed by John Campbell. And the winner is twenty eight hour from
Adventures and Aryssey composed by John Campbell. All right, let's go. My
cars parked across the street. Thank you, Agent one. I'm still missing
six numbers. Just go in more intensely. Get him thinking about the rest
of those numbers. Whatever you have to do. The launching of this missile
is imperative to the mission. Dervisi here two seven K four two two w
Q. That's all we have. I understand sir, but we are almost
there. It shouldn't take much longer. Yes, who's the chatman, I'll
headly congratulations John. Well, that's going to wrap up our first segment.
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without the ease. Well, welcome back to the sixth Seneca Awards. It
is now time to hear from our first guest presenter of the evening, actor
and writer Nato Jacobson. In just five years, Nato Jacobson went from his
first ever gig in audio drama to being signed on to write for the renowned
series Adventures in Odyssey, and was invited to be a keynote speaker at Sonicon
twenty twenty one. He's written and performed for Abide, the number one Christian
meditation app and has been cast in over one hundred and seventy five roles by
productions such as Lamp Letter Theater, Jonathan Park and Brinkman Adventures. He is
the only actor to have been nominated for five Seneca Awards, and one for
Best Leading Actor. In twenty nineteen, after recently performing NATO's script for the
Adventum series, a veteran voice actor stated, I'm not seeing this level of
creativity and depth anywhere, Christian or secular. A very warm welcome to Nato
Jacobson. Well, hey friends, Nato here, It's such a joy to
be able to speak to you at the sixth Annuel Seneca as thank you JD
for the privilege of this invitations. So cool to be part of this.
I apologi, by the way, for the lack of perfect professional audio quality.
I'm actually not at my home studio for the whole summer. As a
matter of fact, I am in Colorado training for a mountain climb, so
thanks for bearing with me. I grew up listening to old time radio as
well as Adventures and Odyssey. Gunsmoke was my favorite, and Ranger Bill was
every Saturday morning, and we had lots on cassette tape. But my favorites
were Adventures, Ndyssey and Father Gilbert. And honestly, especially was really quite
played a remarkable role in my life because I think it shaped me in a
lot of ways. It was kind of a home away from home for me,
and it brought stories from scripture to life in a really meaningful way.
And I think it also kind of cultivated my imagination and developed me in certain
ways as a storyteller and as a voice actor eventually, And so anyway,
it's really really special, and that fandom, if you will, never really
entirely dissipated, even as I went into adulthood, and so I had this
interest to transition from that passion to profession. And the first thing along those
lines that I did was I attended the Lamplighter Guild for the first time in
the summer of twenty thirteen, so it just over ten years ago now was
really where the journey started. But I actually actually began in filmmaking, so
that's where I actually got my first working opportunities in the arts. And then
it wasn't until about four years later, in May of twenty seventeen, when
I got my first professional audio drama gig, which was for Lamplighter Theater.
They had moved their recordings to their headquarters in New York rather than doing it
in London, which long story short, gave people like me the opportunity to
audition, and they were doing a show called Escape from the Eagles Nest.
I got cast in that, and then the second half of the week they
did another show called The Giant Killer, and I actually wasn't supposed to be
in that show, but one of the actors from Eagles Nest had a respiratory
illness and lost his voice while performing for Eagles Nest, and so he wasn't
able to do the role that he was supposed to do in Giant Killer,
and I ended up getting that role to replace him. So so that ended
up being the role of Constantine, which was like a twelve thirteen year old
boy in that show, which was directed, written, and directed. It
was brilliantly written role and then directed by John Fornoff. And John and I
had actually known each other for those that four years and we were actually very
close, and he was he'd become a mentor of mine and a very dear
friend, and so we kind of built this foundation of relationship but never had
the opportunity to collaborate, and this opened the door for that, and it
just kind of it's like everything kind of snowballed from there, largely thanks to
John, as Ell articulated here in a minute. Lamp Lighters has, especially
though, just just played a really special role in my journey, and I'm
so thankful to Mark Hamby for that. I've done now a total of ten
Lamp Lighter theater productions and forty six characters, and it's just been a lot
of fun. But what happened after that first time working with John was really
quite something. The next year John connected me with the Wise King media team
and really kind of advocated for me as he was working with them on this
new series they were doing called The Adventum. I ended up getting cast as
the narrator, and I've done fourteen other characters since, included I also played
to Lucifer, which was kind of fun. And then six months later John
brings me the same company but brings me onto the Jonathan Park series and I've
since done eight volumes for them and forty two characters, including most recently,
by the way, George Washington, which was really special. He's one of
my greatest inspirations, and so this is so cool to get to what an
honor to get to play him. And I actually had had from some some
previous research, had some awareness of what his kind of the nuances of what
his voice sounded like, which it's kind of rare that that anybody knows,
you know, what some what a historical figure who lived before the times of
recordings, you know, sounded like. But but they actually have some some
insight into this with George Washington, and so I was aware of that and
was able to kind of bring that to my performance. And so so it's
just really cool to be able to do that, and a really amazing privilege
to play one of my heroes. But then the next year John brought me
onto Lifeline Audio Dramas and I've done seven characters for them, And then the
next year he brought me into the the Abide app, the number one Christian
meditation app and and his series that he was doing for them called Skyship Dreamer,
and I've done twenty eight characters for them, and actually had the immense
honor of of being in a show with Will Ryan shortly before he passed,
and unfortunately we didn't share any scenes together, but managed what a privilege just
to be in the same show with him. And then a few months later
John brings me on board to write for Abide and Skyship Dreamer, so you
know, transitioning from from voice acting to writing. And then around the same
time he connected me with Kenny and Tommy Sergeant of Sergeant Family Productions, and
they were doing this project called Wayfarer, a full cast audiobook, and they
needed a narrator and so I was in a narrator. I was a number
of other characters for them. And then a few months later John brings me
on board to write for the Adventum. So again same thing, you know,
transitioning from voice acting to writing, but for that series. And I
wrote the entire volume six for them, which is still in post production,
but it's coming this fall and I just can't wait for you to hear it,
so be on the lookout for that. And then the next year he
connects me with he introduced me to Chris Nelson, who's who runs the Sonic
Con event and and so this was Sonica on twenty twenty one, where Chris
then invited me to be a speaker. And that was just a whirlwind of
teaching multiple masterclasses and doing a keynote and multiple panels and and doing like a
live performance, and it was it just became one of like my all time
favorite weekends of my entire life. And then the next year, John introduced
me to Marshal Younger, the show runner of Adventures and Odyssey, and and
I could go on like it's just incredible how much this one person in my
life has has done for me. But I'll talk about somebody else as well.
I'll talk about our very own host of Audio Theater Central, who's the
committee chair of these Seneca Awards JD. Sutter he has also just been a
tremendous direct blessing to me, not just I mean, you know, not
to mention like everything he's done just for the family audio drama community in general,
but for me, I've I've been a beneficiary of that. And because
of JD, I found out about Witnesses and got connected with Tracy Van Dolder
and have worked on multiple of her shows and also played Lucifer for her.
Interestingly, but I've played Jesus in three other shows, so I think I'm
avoiding typecasting hopefully. But anyway, I also because of JD, I found
out about Voices in the Wind David Farquhar, and I narrated The Black Cat
by ed Garland Poe for them. I played the Wizard and the Wizard of
Oz for them. And JAD also connected me with Callie Sue of the twelve
thirty two project, and and and get this, Also because of JD,
I found out about Brinkman Adventures, and I got connected with Ian Boltman,
who ended up casting me in seasons eight nine and also as William Bradford in
this production called Freedom, and a number of other characters and and so that
was all JD and Audio Theater Central, and so anyway, like all in
all over these what six years of working in audio drama, I've done over
one hundred and seventy five voice acting roles, and as a writer, I've
had about four hundred pages of script produced thus far, which is you know
it's not tons, but but just incredible how much people like this, especially
you know, those two guys have done to open doors of opportunity for me,
and I just I want to first of all, just I'm saying all
that out of gratitude to just say thank you, but also I want you
all to take something away from this. And this is not limited to audio
drama, by the way, or story telling or the arts. This is
just a lesson for life. But whatever way you want to apply this,
invest in relationships with people who are willing to invest in you, and when
you get an opportunity, give it everything you've got every time. Give those
people the return on the investment that they deserve. So think about the parable
of the talents with the servants and get the resources from from the master,
and they're responsible to go to go build on that, to take it and
do something with it, to not bury it. Right, So don't bury
what you've been given, don't let it go to waste. Build on what
they gave you, multiply it. And if you do that, if you
if you invest in relationships, if you maximize your opportunities, and if you
bring together your strengths and passions, which I don't have time to get into
the weeds on that, but if you do those three things, then it's
it's kind of a kind of a magical journey. And so invest in relationships,
maximize your opportunities, bring together your strengths and passions, and always,
always, always do those three things in that order of priority. This is
also really important, in other words, put people first. As soon as
you allow your passion or your project to become more important than the people,
you've lost your way. So anyway, that's getting off my soapbox. Thank
you, John, thank you j D. Thank you, Mark Hamby Kathy
Buchanan, Paul McCusker, John Campbell, my older brother Josh, and my
parents, Mike and Susy, my friends Alex Lerma and Robert Brace, and
so many others for all that each of you have invested me in me over
the years. Thank you to Jesus my beloved creator who is my greatest role
model for creating with artistry. And thank you to each of you who are
listening. I take tremendous delight in telling you stories, and I hope through
volume six of the Adventum and beyond that the life breath of inspiration will light
a fire in your heart. God be with you. Hm. Wow,
what an inspiring word. Thank you Nato firstly for those very very kind words,
completely unexpected, but I appreciate them very much, and thank you for
sharing your heart with us in this space. And I hope that is an
inspiration to any up and coming talent in this space, whether that's actors or
writers or whatever discipline you are pursuing. I think Nato is a great example
of putting in the work and grinding to make a career in this space and
it's paid off. And now you can hear his voice in so many different
audio dramas and he's a great talent and I appreciate him taking the time to
speak to us here tonight at the Seneca Awards. Thank you, Nato.
Well, let's move into some more awards. Our next category is Best Sound
Design. Heidi, who are our nominees? For this category Best Sound Design
twenty eight Hours Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family sound designed by Luke
Guno and Zach Schneider. Crown of Success Lamplighter Theater from Lamplighter Ministries. Sound
designed by Alan Hurley. The Lost One Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the
Family sound designed by Jonathan Crowe. Showdown at San Poco Adventures in Odyssey from
Focus on the Family sound designed by Nathan Jones. Weapons of Our Warfare Jonathan
Park Series nineteen from Wise King Media sound designed by Oscar Corral And the winner
is twenty eight Hours from Adventures in Odyssey sound designed by Luke Gano and Zach
Schneider. You're all I got, Whittaker sounds like that it's no longer the
case. Somebody's pulling up. Ah, you weren't expecting anyone till after midnight.
Give the hold up, mow, grab a weapon? Who is it?
They said they'd be coming in an suv. I don't like this.
They're just sitting there. Looks like only one person. Let's go and see
what they want. Might be a lost hiker. Hey, ye, get
aem moh, who is it? I'm inside? Hi? Jason Jillian,
You're coming with me. Congratulations, gentlemen. All right, moving into our
acting categories. First off, the Best Supporting Actress, Best Supporting Actress,
Melissa Disney as Folly in Crown of Success Lamplighter Theater, Natalie Lander as Zoe
in The Lost One Ventures in Odyssey, Katie Lee as Tory Mattlone in The
Watch, Kathleen Robinson as Axa in The Adventum Volume five, Trisha Rose as
Trisha in Double Date A Friend from Woodgrove. Wow. Some great talent here,
and our winner is Melissa Disney as Folly in Crown of Success from Lamplighter
Theater, Bolds the Book Still Alive. Oh could I be anything but upset?
So much for your poisonous kids. Ha, but my cage is working
better than our plan, don't you get Nelly has lifted content a boone Dewey,
and as long as she tries to cage the bird, she herself traptor.
Oh oh you clever man, Why you're a genius? Yours pride?
I am love, I am Congratulations Melissa. Next category is Best Supporting Actor,
and our nominees are Best Supporting Actor Daniel Cross as Authaniel in the Adventum
Volume five, Zach Johnson as Possum in The Little Red Hen Chris O'Brien as
Boaz in The Adventum Volume five, Phil Proctor as Don Polhouse in Twenty eight
Hours Adventures in Odyssey, Mike Shapiro as Leonid Sepinov in The Lost One Adventures
in Odyssey, and the Winner is Mike Shapiro as Leonard Sepinov in The Lost
One. Olivia Halien, wonderful to see you again, my little Lumnyashka.
I have missed you. Let's spen all of three hours. I am dead.
Time is not really a thing to other people's imaginary friends visit this often.
No, you're one of the lucky ones. Umnyashka Russian for a clever
girl. Right, Perhaps I have misused that term of endearment. Your computer
screen is blank. You seem to not have made any progress on your paper
about me. Yeah, I know. Let me help you take this down.
Leonard Sepinov was a nineteenth century Russian philosopher who some considered to be the
greatest mind of all time. Today, many people say, if Socrates,
Thomas Jefferson, and Leonard Sepinov a teammates on a game show The tim Wouldesque
sevenough to be the representative in the Lightning Round. Oh, what a powerful
performance from Mike Shapiro. Congratulations. Well, we wanted to take a few
minutes here to honor a great talent who left us in the year of twenty
twenty two, and that is mister David cochrane Heath. He won the Seneca
Award for Best Leading Actor in twenty twenty for his role of Moses in The
Adventum, and we wanted to take a few minutes to honor his work in
this industry. David cochran Heath was born in nineteen fifty two and worked in
radio and theater for around four decades. He voiced characters for computer games and
public television, hosted an instructional video series for automotive repair, and was the
narrator for the long running radio program Pause and Tales. David lived in a
village in the Philippines for four years as a teenager, and as an adult
lived with his wife Beth in Michigan, Washington, and California. He was
with Lamb's Players Theater in Coronado, California for thirty one years, working full
time as a senior member of the acting ensemble and serving as the company's director
of Facilities. He left Lamb's Players in twenty eleven to concentrate on audiobooks and
narrated over one hundred and forty books, including three versions of the Bible as
Soul Reader, English Standard Version, King James Version, and New International Reader's
Version. David got his love of stories from his father, who was a
preacher for twenty five years, a missionary for another eighteen years, and a
lifelong lover of the most important story of all, God's Plan of redemption in
all sixty six books of the Bible. On August fourteenth, twenty twenty two,
in Leavenworth, Washington, our team put together a little real to pay
tribute to this great talent, Pardie, and Welcome to wild Wood. When
the club is looking for something exciting and unusual to do, they often end
up at the Collins Mansion. In the beginning, God created the heaven and
the earth, and God said, let there be light, And there was
light. I think it's a wonderful idea. Whoa, and the timing couldn't
be better. Who said that? I did? My name's DeMarcus, Alexander
DeMarcus and this is my home. Please forgive the unusual entrance, but I've
always enjoyed surprises. My name is Franco Fernando Yard Marcus me ma'amaculls me baku?
Is that fish? I smell fish? No, it's snake snake?
See it tastes like chicken. You would like. Oh, I'm sure it'll
be great. You'll have maybe here we eat no bite there, let's goods.
How can you live on this island? I would not leave here all
the time. But I know the snakes. I think like a snake.
Now I am herpetologies. Oh I like the field work. No here,
I study these snakes. This golden lance head snakes here on the islands.
To get bit by these snoris Oh, he's no window. Many die now
we eat it. You're lucky we found you when we did. I feel
much better when we get out of these waters. We'll head back to the
island as quickly as possible. It will take us so till morning, I
should imagine. Okay, I'm Kendall Park Derek Rayfit. Follow my directions.
What are your wishes for the Americans? I want them left to find howards
work for us. But maybe these hapless families will actually be useful to us
in another way. What do you mean the friendly With all of this attention
from the media, the timing could not be more person Now is the time
for a major discovery. Check the radar. Big storm coming in tonight.
We're grounded. Only one flight out tonight. That's supply heelo right there.
Ah, we could we That's a private charter, very private. No passengers,
don't even try. Those guys are pretty uptight about anybody asking questions.
Totally on their own on these cylinders, the late mister Collins has recorded stories
of how he escaped cannibal tribes, of his surviving months trapped on the Arctic
ice, and best of all, he often recorded stories from the Bible while
he was standing on the very spot where they took place. I finished the
last book last night. Alazer has all of them now, all five books.
I also wrote a song, a song teach them, the song Joshua.
I will teach them. There's hope Joshua. It's in the last line
of the song. Yes, I don't understand the full meaning of what he
gave me. It's something unusual, something beautiful, and something mysterious. All
at once, God will provide atonement for his land for his people, and
God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow nor crying, neither shall there be any pain.
For the former things are passed away. And the Spirit and the bride say,
come and let him. Let hear it, say come and let him
that is a thirst come, And whosoever will let him take the water of
life freely. Amen. What a wonderful talent. He will be missed,
and if you hadn't seen it. Our team also put together a written tribute
on the ATC website last year, and we spoke to several industry professionals that
David worked with over the years and got some thoughts from them about their experiences
with him. It is well worth a read. I would definitely recommend checking
that out. Just head over to our website and search for David Heath and
you will find that. But we thought it fitting to make sure to pay
some honor to this wonderful talent. Well, I want to say a quick
thank you to Adagiots for partnering with us again this year. You can find
out more from them at PFM dot link. Slash t that's tea, and
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to begin the adventure. Welcome back to the sixth annual Audio Theater Central Seneca.
We are going to move into our second entertainment segment tonight and we are
going to feature a production from the Lamplighter Summer Guild. And if you're unfamiliar
with the Lamplighter Guild, the Master's Guild is an institution that brings in masters
in different disciplines to teach the arts, leadership, and theology in the state
of New York and they host the Summer Guild, which is a week long
event that does a deep dive into the creative arts such as scriptwriting, acting,
music, composition, photography, and more. And many of the professionals
in this space have been instructors at that event, and you can find out
more at the Master's Guild dot net. But we're going to feature a short
piece that was produced at the Guild and it is called The Cobbler's Cobbler.
And this was written by a Guild student, and I believe his name is
pronounced Lucas Colissar. Apologies Lucas if I butchered your surname, I do apologize.
But he wrote this piece with assistance from Phil Lawlor and Phil also directed
and produced this piece and sound design was by Alan Hurley and music by John
Campbell. So let's take a listen to the Cobbler's Cobbler. Once upon a
time the land of Peridom, that lived a cobbler named Ron Hullo, but
not the type that made shoes run, made cobblers, one RedBerry cobbler,
one blueberry cobbler, and one snarlsberry cobbler. Yes, cobblers were his life,
nay his obsession. He ate cobblers for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
He thought cobblers, hawked cobblers, and even dreamed of cobblers. He
was so wrapped up with cobblers he didn't even have time for his family,
Oh Ron, cobbler head. He neglected them so much that once, when
Ron was on an overnight cobbler making trip in Sweden, the unthinkable happened.
His family packed up and left. But that didn't bother Ron. He just
kept on making cobblers, peach cobblers, banana cobblers, gobbler cobblers. Then
one day the King of Paridon and his royal servant came to ron shop.
Good day, mister Ron, royal servant, tell him what kind of cobbler
I want his royal majesty The King of Paridon to the throne of his father,
the King. Long may he live, bless it, May he be
in all his majestic rule of Parydom. May his children be praised for their
noble deeds and clean ears. The King of Erynham requests from you, gone
of Perydam, may strawberry gobbler. Wait wait, I don't want strawberry.
I prefer apple cobbler. Go action his royal Majesty, the King of Perydam,
heir to the throne of his father, the King. Nor may he
live blessed, may he be in all his majestic rule of Perydam. Actually,
I think I'll stick with the strawberry gor action of the correction, his
royal Majesty, the King of Paridam, And to the jest say it,
Henry H. Apple, one apple for his highness coming up. When the
King tried the cobbler delicious, he was very pleased. I'm very pleased,
royal servant. Tell Ron I'm Betty pleased. Here's royal highnesses Betty pleased.
So I heard. Honestly, Ronnie Kins, these cobblers are outstanding. Well,
you know our motto. If you don't like it, will at least
say we're sorry. Tell you what, Ronnie Baby, I want you to
make cobblows for me at the castle. What do you say? Do I
have a choice now? Then I accept. Ron was overjoyed. He was
on top of the world and looking down on creation. Hm, I think
there's a song in there somewhere. He raced to the castle where the king
was waiting. Listen up, everybody, one one here will now be making
cobblers for us. Well, Ronnie b donny, what are you doing just
milling about? Go make us some cobblers. Oh uh, yes, sire,
So Ron made cobblers for the King and his court. Out standing,
we must have more cobblers. Double this time, you lazy bum make me
cobblers. Ron made more cobblers as fast as he could, then gave them
to the King in his court again, even outstanding her, we must have
even more cobblers. Tripple this time. Uh, that's an awful lot of
cobblers. Kingy are you sure you want that many? Do I look like
I'm mansure you cobbler face? Yes? So Ron made thirty six trays full
of cobblers, which of course took him an awfully long time. Outstanding aest,
we must have more of the illbet who said you could talk? Well,
I haven't had a line for a while, so I just thought,
who's the king around here? Anyway? It's my kingdom, so I'll do
the talking, did you, Ron? Ron, make us ten time more
cobblers, and this time make them a little faster or else. The task
was impossible for any one man to do alone, but Ron still tried He
whipped up the next batch of cobblers as fast as he could, but not
fast enough. The King was livid, lividly livid. When Ron came to
the King's court to apologize, he was met by twenty castle guards. First
they took all his money, Second they kicked him out of the castle.
Then they bouldozed his house, and finally they plucked out all his nose hair
and blew it in his face. Ron was penniless, jobless, homeless,
and nos hairless. He was reduced to begging door to door. Then one
day, hello, would it be okay if I Standing at the door was
his aunt, Sandra lu Ron, and behind her was his whole family.
Cobbler brain, what are you all doing here? We've always been here in
the house on the other side of the street from you, just waiting for
you to come see us. But I thought you left. We did to
the other side of the street. We didn't leave leave your big silly We
just decided to give you some space because we thought you didn't want us around.
I guess I was pretty full of myself. I'm sorry everyone. I
was so obsessed with my cobblers I didn't even know something more important was here
for me all along, all of you, all Ron a cobler head.
I know how you can make it up to us, How make us a
nice big cobbler dinner, gray cobbler breath. And so Ron ended up back
at home with the people who loved him, And this time he learned to
love them too, even more than he loved his cobblance. And that's a
lesson we should all take to heart. Oh that is so fun. Thank
you to Lamplidder Ministries for allowing us to share that with you tonight again.
If you'd like more information on the Master's Guild or the Summer Guild, head
over to the Master's Guild dot net. All right, well, let's move
into more awards. Let's announce some more winners. This category is Best Leading
Actress, Heidi. Who are our nominees for the Best Leading Actress, Best
Leading Actress. Katie Deboor as Betty in Canoes in the Sky Your Story,
hour Anna Nelson as Piper in Legacies Base Camp ad Monica Padilla as Julian Marshall
in twenty eight Hours Adventures in Odyssey, Gracie Shinn as Jack in King Jack,
Lamplighter Theater, Kelly Stables as Olivia Parker in The Lost One, Adventures
in Odyssey, and the winner is Kelly Stables as Olivia Parker in The Lost
One Voices from the Past. Yes, yes, you mean my friends,
mister Whittaker, Connie, that is exactly what I mean. I don't want
to get rid of them. It is the only way, the only way
to grow my naive friend. No, you're wrong, I should be talking
to them. In fact, you know what I'm gonna do. I don't
think I want to know. I'm gonna go to Zoe's right now and say
what. Well, I don't know exactly. Hello might be enough. You
are letting your emotions supersede reason. Maybe she will never forgive you. Are
you ready to feel even more rejection? I guess I'm about to find out.
Oh what a phenomenal performance from Kelly Stables. Congratulations on the win tonight.
Moving on to the next category, Best Leading Actor, Heidi, Best
Leading Actor Townsend Coleman as Jason in twenty eight Hours Adventures in Odyssey, Daniel
Cross as Barabbas in The Condemned Witnesses, and You'll Cross as Hubris Pride in
the Crown of Success lamp Later Theater, Andy Harvey as Simeon in a Promise
Kept Witnesses, Will Ryan as Eugene Meltzner in as Buck would have it Adventures
an Odyssey, and the winner our Best Leading Actor is Andy Harvey as Simeon
in a Promise Kept Samawi, who's there? Who's the heir seor show yourselth
Lord? S hi, Lord, my God speak? You haven't is listening?
Go where? Lord? Go to the temple? Yeah, Lord,
I would buy a sacrifice to the temple and see see what Lord my salvage.
Oh my God, today we can I see today? Lord? H
huh, I will go now. Congratulations Andy. I received multiple messages from
committee members this year as they were reviewing the productions and they had not heard
this one up until the time when listening to vote this year, and they
were just blown away by this production and Andy's performance in particular. So congratulations
again Andy. In our next category is Best New Show, Best New Show
A Friend from Woodgrove from Michael LaFeber and Ryan Matlock Chapel and Squeak from LRT
Media, The Clue Crew from Pacific Garden Mission, Quentin Manning Detective for Justice
from by U Radio, The watch from Randy Strew and Darby Kerne. Thank
you, Heidi, and our winner for Best New Show is the watch from
Randy Strew and Darby Kern. She's so impersonal. Just once, I'd like
her to call us by our names. I want her to use our names
of the air. Seriously, that whole root? Did you Angelo Farantino?
No one, Angelo Farantino? Are you kidding me? Eighteen fourteen twenty.
Who snap? She just busted you out on the air. It's Farantino Milwaukee
Police Department. Can you respond? Mister Farantino is clear? First spedroom's clear,
James, do you go? Oh? Oh man, that ain't right.
Dispatch fourteen twenty. Here ems required at our location? Copy fourteen twenty
dispatching e MS ten seventeen. Uh no, hurry, dispatch subject appears deceased
Copy fourteen twenty. Corner in room. Any times you think they shot this
guy when they needed to catch the backdoor bro. I'll secure out front and
wait for medical. Yeah this I need something. Tells me she isn't the
one who called this in. Congratulations gentlemen on the win for Best New Show.
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joining us tonight. I hope you're having as much fun as I am,
and I know you're going to enjoy this next bit. We're going to hear
from our next speaker. We're so so thrilled to have veteran voice actress Chris
Anthony landsdown with us. So excited to hear from her. Chris's remarkable vocal
talent and warm, humorous personality has for over three decades, won the trust,
love and respect of everyone she has worked with in the voice over industry.
Besides a lengthy list of TV, radio, animation, and video game
credits, she has also enjoyed long and treasured relationships with many toy manufacturers.
Topping the list was Chris's decade long relationship with Mattel Toys, where she earned
the title longest running voice of Barbie. Chris was the voice of more than
one hundred talking Barbie toys, dolls, and video games. Some of her
most recent credits include voices for Trolls and the animated film Ellabella Bingo. Her
voice can also be heard in the video game Fallout seventy six as Motherload,
Robo brain Boss, Quinn Carter, and Bethy Mangano. For the past thirty
five years, Chris has also been the host of Adventures in Odyssey, which
airs weekly on over two thousand radio stations worldwide. Please welcome and give a
round of applause to Chris Anthony Lansdowne. Hi, this is Chris. Welcome
to Adventures in Odyssey. Yes, I'm that Chris from Adventures in Odyssey.
Wait, where's my theme music? Well, Hi, everybody. I am
thrilled that I was asked to share a little bit about my journey and my
voice work with you, and to be a part of the Seneca Awards.
This is really special audio drama and Adventures in Odyssey has been a very big
part of my life. Believe it or not, I'm as much a fan
of Adventures in Odyssey as everyone is. I really love what they do and
how they do it, and what an amazing group of people who are so
gifted and talented. I know these guys very well and They've been around me,
and I've been around them for thirty five years. Is that amazing?
And audio drama for thirty five years. They are truly like a second family
to me, and they put up with me because I'm a real goofball who
sees life through a very funny filter and I just love to make people laugh
and smile, and that's a real special part of my world. Anyways,
I just wanted to say how much I love being a part of the show,
and some of the things that go on behind the scenes you'll never know.
I remember times where I'm reading credits at the end of the show,
and you know, these guys know how to make me laugh. So they'll
write in names that I cannot pronounce when I say the cast includes, and
then I speak the names, and then they write a name that is so
long that I have no idea how to pronounce it, And there they are
behind the glass in the recording booth, laughing at me because I'm stumbling all
over myself trying to pronounce a name that doesn't really exist. So, yeah,
we have lots of fun doing Adventures in Odyssey. Another thing I do
is I make phone calls to people sometimes we'll have a special contest, or
just somebody in need of a phone call, maybe to be cheered up,
or a birthday or an illness. I get to call them directly and say,
Hi, this is Chris. And every once in a while I get
get a parent on there that says, well, don't you want to talk
to me? You know, I called for your kid, because a lot
of these adults have listened to Adventures in Hodyssey when they were kids, and
now they're kids have grown up and they're listening to Adventures in Odyssey. But
actually I love talking to whoever picks up the phone, and I've had some
great conversations with some Adventures in Odyssey fans. I'll just happen to call in
the middle of somebody who's going into surgery the next day and needed for me
to just encourage them, or some some kid who is in school and he's
having trouble making friends. I'll give him some tips on you know, how
to do that. And it's just it's really sweet to talk to people and
I just love that. And also I get to play parts on the show.
Emma Darling, Very Odd Mother, Madge, Maud, Miss Grayson,
Missus, Randolph Yeah, people don't know. It's me and missus Randolphish wonder
of my very favorite parts. She just came back this year. She had
a part written for her, and I'm just thrilled that I got to be
on the show and doing a role again. Some of you might remember me
playing the part of Madge as in the Gifts of Madgine Guy Will Ryan played
Guy, and Madge was a very sweet, innocent Oh she sounded like this.
Everything she said was so so sweet, and Guy, I love you.
Will Ryan and I had a blast doing that part together. I really
been fortunate to have worked so long in this crazy business. I think I've
been everything you can imagine, from old women to little kids, to talking
dogs to munchkins. Hi there, I'm a munchkin. I had the silliest
life, but I love it and I'm grateful for every single part I've ever
gotten. I mean I've I've done commercials and video games and animation, and
you guys must be pretty sick of me by now, but I am grateful,
and I'm always always surprised when I do book the job. A lot
of you know that I was Barbie for many years. I did her voice,
starting in nineteen ninety four, I was cast for Barbie, and she
really didn't have a voice at that time. You know, she had a
few projects that were done through the years, but they really hadn't established a
voice. So I got a chance to bring her to life. And remember
thinking in my mind, I don't want her to sound silly or kind of
an airhead, and I want her to be like every little girl's friend.
So Barbie finally had a voice, and we recorded hundreds and hundreds of toys
with Barbie's voice in it. We had Super Talk Barbie and Dentist Barbie,
working Woman Barbie, Cool Shopping Barbie. We had Spanish speaking Barbie, which
they had to teach me Spanish so I could record her voice in Spanish.
And then we had computer games for girls. Oh how fun that was.
There was Hairstyler Barbie, Super Sport Barbie, Detective Barbie. And then they
had the big one, which was Fashion Designer computer game that was so big
and so popular that this year they inducted it into the World Video Game Hall
of Fame. It was very exciting, and I remember as I looked back
at all the little girls that wanted to hear Barbie and they would come knock
at my front door and I had to say, Hi, it's me Barbie.
Okay, close your eyes, because sometimes I wouldn't be dressed looking like
Barbie at all, and I would think, oh, no, I'm going
to ruin the image of Barbie. My daughter was five years old at the
time, and she loved Barbie. She did not know that I was Barbie's
voice, and that became a very interesting thing for her because your favorite dolls
Barbie. Do you want your mom to be Barbie? No, So we
laugh about that. It was a great time in my career doing her voice.
But you know, out of the forty years of doing voice acting,
I really feel like if everything goes away, and I don't really want to
be known as the greatest voice actress. I really do want to be known
as someone who was kind and fun and caring. And I mean, those
are the things that mattered to me. And if you're going into voice acting,
or you're going to be in this career, it make sure you have
a perspective and don't compare to anybody else. It's your journey. I'm very
grateful that I've had so many wonderful things happen in my voice work. But
I must say I really believe that without God in my life, none of
this would have been possible. I so appreciate the fact that you guys are
doing such an amazing job. I really admire the hard work that goes into
it and how you guys have stayed so dedicated to it. Good luck to
everyone who's a part of the awards this year. You all are amazing and
thank you for allowing me to share a part of my story. Oh thank
you, Chris, Thank you so very much. And I have no doubt
that that is exactly how you will be remembered as one of the sweetest and
kindest people this industry has seen. And I can personally speak to that,
as you have reached out to me on multiple occasions just to check in and
see how things are going. And I want to say personally thank you to
you for that, and thank you for speaking to us tonight. Thank you
for sharing a little bit about your journey. And it was so great of
you to take the time to talk with us tonight and share some inspiration for
other actors in this space. So thank you very much. All Right,
well, let's move back into announcing some winners. Our next category is Best
Short Form Audio Drama. Who are our nominees, Heidi Best Short Form Audio
Drama, Canoes in the Sky, Your Story Hour, The Case of the
Poisoned Pie, The Clue Crew from Pacific Garden Mission, The Honor of obed
Edom, Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family, Showdown in Sand,
Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family, Silk and Swanson from by U
Radio, and the winner of Best short Form Audio Drama is the Honor of
obed Edom from Adventures in Odyssey. The valiant men swooped down on the unsuspecting
Amalekites. The fight was fierce, but the mighty Man never let up.
The right hand of the Lord was with each man. What happened, Grandfather?
While I fought one Amalekite, I was attacked from behind by another.
That's not fair. There is no fair in war. Often who won the
battle the Lord and King David. Only four hundred young Amalekite men escaped.
It was a great victory, Grandfather. When that Amalachite hit you from behind?
Is that when your leg was broken? Yes, of me, very
badly broken. That's why you need it, Cane, Yes, that's why.
And so the King released me from his service. I am no longer
a mighty man. You're a mighty grandfather though, Thank you. Congratulations.
Our next category is Best long Form Audio Drama, Hid You Take It Away?
Best long Form Audio Drama twenty eight hours? Adventures in Odyssey from Focus
on the Family, A Tale of two Siblings, Patch The Pirates from Majesty
Music, The Little Red Hen from the Academy of Arts, The Lost One,
Adventures in Odyssey from Focus on the Family, Weapons of Our Warfare Jonathan
Park from Wise King Media. Oh Man, some great audio drama there,
And our winner is Best long Form Audio Drama twenty eight hours. Limo,
what was that? What was what I thought I heard? Oh? No,
what is it? Someone's hurt. I'll call you back later. Hello,
I can help, Can you hear me? Yes? Yes, I'm
fine. Oh you have a head injury. What happened? Someone hit me
with something? I don't know what, but need hurt. What's your name,
Rusk, doctor William Russ. Well, we need to get you to
the hospital. That's where I was going. I am meeting my colleague,
doctor Calhoun. Oh, Joseph, Well, he's a friend of mine.
I was going to help him with it. I don't remember now, I'll
call an ambulance. I should have brought my car. You can use mine.
It's barked right by the curb the Cadillac. Oh great, that'll be
quicker here, let me help you up. Congratulations. Well, I mentioned
at the top of the broadcast that we are going to be premiering a teaser
for a brand new show this year, and I am really excited about this.
This is a new show called Retold World War Two. Nearly twenty years
ago, Paul Leffler founded the Hometown Heroes radio show. His mission was simple,
preserve the stories of World War Two veterans, reminding the world of their
valor and sacrifice. Paul has gathered more than one thousand interviews with veterans of
World War Two alone. Recently, a new idea formed, and that was
to introduce future generations to these heroes through a dramatized audio podcast, and so
Hometown Creative Studios was born. They are taking these stories that were gleaned from
these interviews from World War Two veterans and dramatizing them and interspersing them with this
interview audio from these veterans. There are hundreds of stories to tell, and
the team can't wait to inspire and awe audiences with the courage of these great
Americans. Hometown Creative Studios presents the dramatized audio podcast Retold World War Two.
Now the teaser you're going to hear is focusing on the story of Irwin Stavroff.
Irwin knew as soon as he heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor he
would be joining the war effort. He volunteered to be an Air Corps pilot,
but soon learned that additional pilots weren't needed, so he settled for becoming
Obamadere. After his final mission, Stavroff expected to return safely to his beloved
United States. Flight crews were limited to thirty five missions at the time.
However, mission number thirty five, a simple in and out assignment known to
flyboys as a milk run, would prove to be unlike any other he had
ever experienced. We now present to you the teaser four Retold World War Two.
First place, We started off her right at twenty five, and then
they raised it to thirty, and then after thirty they said, you know,
we'll never fly more than thirty five, and they were certainly right in
my case, because you know, if we do get the cruise, and
we were still losing a lot of cruise, you know that we won't.
You will not have to go to the thirty fifth mission. Well, we
did, and the thirty fifth mission, which was our last, preally truly
was our last. And all right, you ate, let's dump these eggs
so I can go home. Back to Betsy. I've been meaning to tell
you Russia. Don't call me Russia. I got a letter from your Betsy,
something about some four f guy down the street named Charlie. Aren't you
a ray of sunshine? Hey? I do my best? How do you
get by without your mommy rocking you to sleep every night? You worked all
day on that one, didn't you. You guys every mission the same thing.
Hey, he started it? All right, listen up, tell us
this is a milk run, quick and simple. After this, we've done
enough missions to go home. Sounds good to me. But the Jerry's well,
they don't know that they're going to be right on our tail the whole
time. Understood. What did I ever do to them? Probably annoyed them
like you do everyone else. All right, here we go, stay frosty
boys. Keep your eyes at ears open, yes, sir. What happened
is there was several bursts of flak and we got hit on our number one
and number two engines and the hydraulic system failed. We're hit where it hit,
timed up failed. I'll hold her as long as I can see you.
On the day, whole days, everything was failing. There was fire
coming into the ship and so we had to bail out. I was in
the nose of the planes, so I jumped through the nosewall door and fortunately
every one of us got out of the plane before it exploded. I got
rid of my dogs eggs because I'm Jewish and it had h on there,
so knowing where I was going, I decided the best thing I could do
was get rid of my dog t eggs because they were shooting at me as
I was coming down, so there was no way they would say I was
a spy that they had picked up in the country. And I did land
right in the German front lines, and I was I was captured immediately and
down of the cone. Nixie Thin, oh ya, that is your passion,
stop Rob Irwin. Lieutenant T one sixty three three four two oh your
dog tag stuff huff, Oh your spy Starve Roff Irwin, Lieutenant T one
sixty three three four two. Listen to me, Lieutenant staff Roff. Your
mother's name is Betha. Your father's is Max. You have a father,
and how do you know Starve Rof Irwin, Lieutenant T one sixty three three
four two. That's all right, I know all about you. You lived
on Claremont Avenue in Buffalo, New York. Huh, you attend good public
school number fifty six, and I know your homecoming date for some brunette named
Betsy Parker, the best of all I know you all right? You all
right, Lieutenant? What how could how could you no? My name is
Starve Roff Irwin T one six three four two, Germany velcome show, Lieutenant
stuff Off. I'm afraid for you. Zavo is over. Thank you for
listening. Retold World War Two as a production of Hometown Creative Studios. For
inquiries concerning sponsorships or investment opportunities, please visit Retold podcast dot com or email
us at info at Retold podcast dot com. Wow, I am really excited
about this show. It is being executive produced and hosted by Paul Leffler,
producer, writer, director is Josh Rodriguez, beIN kimp Is sound designer and
writer, composer Russ Whitelocke, and Darby Current is also on the writing team.
In this teaser, you heard Jonathan Cook, Andy Harvey, Peter Fazzari
and yours truly. I was privileged to be able to play the fellow serviceman
who was ribbing Irwin in the in the plane there. For more information,
you can head over to Retold podcast dot com and thank you to Hometown Creative
Studios for premiering this teaser right here on the sixth atc Seneca Awards. Well,
we have come to the final award category for this year productions released in
the year of twenty twenty two. This, of course is our People's Choice
Audio Drama of the Year. This is voted on by you, the listeners.
You nominate your favorite show from the year. The five productions which receive
the highest number of votes then move on to become our five final nominees,
and then in our second round of voting, we announce the winner. But
before we do that, Heidi, who are the nominees for this year People's
Choice Audio Drama? Of the Year. A Tale of Tierney from Soul Twin
Audio Network, Nick Guy and The Phantom of the Ice Opera Affair Nick Guy,
Private Eye from Dominion Artists, Pirateiers Season three, Episode one from Eternal
Future Productions, Three Christmas Trees from marky Witz Audio Works, Undercover Engagement from
Drama FI, and the winner of the twenty twenty two People's Choice Audio Drama
of the Year with nearly sixty percent of the vote. The winner is Pirateers
season three, episode one. My recommendation would be to talk at the nearest
port, to finish repairs there and re stop. Aye. Methinks that'd be
a wise plan, would you agree, Ocean Indeed, sir, the crew
are weary as well. Some time on solid ground we would do them some
good, though I'm not entirely sure where the nearest port would be. We
were blown a good ways off course in the storm, and we've been adrift
for some time while making our repairs. If I may, sir, I
did some calculating last night, and I figure we should be somewhere about to
hear. Really, I believe so, sir, So that would mean the
nearest port would be m That's interesting what's interesting. I can't exactly hear what
your finger is pointing to. Oh apologis captain. If Conway's calculations are correct,
then the nearest poet would be help poso, help poso. Oh my
I sir, congratulations two pirateers and the team at Eternal Future Productions. Well,
it is always bittersweet to come to the end of the award show,
but what a night. It is always so much fun. I always enjoy
this so so very much. If you haven't yet tuned into the Audio Theater
Central podcast or were visited the blog, please do check us out at audio
theater central dot com. In the next episode of the show, I will
be addressing the future of the Seneca Awards, so please come on by give
that to listen, particularly if you are a creative in this industry. Well,
once more, I want to say thank you to our sponsors. Links
to all of them are on the senecas dot org head over there. Thank
them for their support if you have a minute and utilize their services if you
are in the market for them. Thank you to the voting Committee. I
really do appreciate you and your contributions to this awards show. Every year.
It would not be possible without you. And thank you to our announcer Heidi
Stewart. Thank you so much, Heidie. As always a pleasure to have
you involved and to work with you on this show. Thank you to you
the listener for tuning in and for interacting in the chat room tonight. See
you next year. Well you'll have to tune into the ATC podcast to find
out. Once again, I'm JD. Setter, Heidi over to you.
The Audio Theater Central Seneca Awards is a trademark of Porchlight Family Media. Tonight's
broadcast was produced by J. D. Sutter, Austin Peachey and Josh Rodriguez.
Solomon Kim composed our theme music special. Thanks to our guest presenters Chris
Anthony Lansdowne and Nato Jacobson. Thanks also to lamp Lighter Ministries for allowing us
to feature the Summer Guilt production tonight, and thanks to the Audio Drama Alliance
for their hard work on Senior Sawyer. Thank you to Hometown Creative Studios for
letting us premiere the teaser for retold World War Two special. Thanks to all
our partners for helping to make this possible. Blueberry Podcasting the twelve thirty two
audio epic from Rumble, Stump Entertainments, Adagiots, Odyssey, fan dot Com,
and the Script Digital Library. Congratulations to all of tonight's winners. I'm
Heidi Stewart. Good night. All right, let's go ahead and hear from
this year's winners. I'm going to keep my comments to a minimum because now
it is time to hear from the winners. You heard enough from me in
the replay there, and so I'm not going to add a bunch of comments
in between each one. We're just going to try to move through these so
you can hear from the winners and not have too much interruption by me.
So we'll listen to these in the same order in which they were announced in
the broadcast. So we're going to start with the best cover art, which
went to Straight On Till Dawn from The Brinkman Adventures. And here is the
winner. Hey, Audio Theater Centro. This is Ian with Brinkman Adventures,
and I wanted to thank you and the Seneca Awards for the award for the
Best Cover Design last year for our Straight Until Dawn release. That picture was
designed by Mimi Roberts and John Trent from John Trent Designs. We came up
with the idea and then they executed it and did a great job. That
picture captures the two part story in that release called She Is Mine Part one
and Part two that was written by Derby Kern and adapted from the book She
Is Mine, a story about Stephanie Fast. It's an amazing story where this
little girl in the fifties was put on a train at the age of five
by her mother and said that her uncle would meet her when she gets off
the train. And after a day of writing, she gets off and there's
no uncle, and she tries to walk back, following the train tracks back
to her village and she walks the South Korean countryside for three years and is
eventually really in bad shape and ends up in a hospital and then an orphanage
and then is adopted by Christian missionaries. It's an amazing story and Derby did
a great job writing it, and I feel like John Trent and Mimi Roberts
did a great job and capturing that story in that cover. So again,
thank you Audio Theater Centro, JD and team and the Seneca Awards. We
are grateful, all right. And next up is the Best Script, which
was The Lost One written by Marshall Younger. So let's hear from Marshall,
thank you for this This episode, The Lost One was was special to me
because it reached me. It was important to me on a personal level.
And when you put your heart and soul into a project, it's it's so
gratifying when the people around you also put their hearts and souls into it.
And so I have a lot of people to think because that's exactly what happened.
First of all, Katie Lee and Andre Stoika for their their acting performances.
So Natalie Lander who was nominated for Best Supporting Actress, Mike Shapiro who
was who won for Best Supporting Actor, and then Kelly Stables who won for
Best Actress, who played our lead Olivia Parker. She was amazing and she
made me cry in the control room. Also want to thank John Campbell for
his wonderful music and Jonathan Crowe who was nominated for Best Sound Design. This
was his swan song. This was his last episode that he did before he
retired. Let me tell you he did not mail it in. It was
it was. It was beautiful what he did with the sound design. I
also want to thank JD and and people over there at ATC and the people
behind the Scenecal Awards for just continuing to emphasize the power of audio drama.
It has been one of the most, if not the most gratifying thing of
my career to read the letters and emails and posts about people who removed by
this episode, people that were in the same position as Olivia Parker, or
people who knew others who had friends who were in the position of Olivia Parker,
and how this episode spoke to them, how the Holy Spirit spoke to
them through it. I cannot tell you how how gratifying that was or has
been, and so I thank JD for continuing to emphasize that because of the
importance of that and using this medium. So thank you so much for this
award and for Best Original Score category twenty eight hours, which was composed by
John Campbell. And here is our winner. Hello John Campbell here and a
big shout out to j D and the team at Audio Theater Central. I
am once again honored to have received an award for some of the music I've
written. This one is for the Adventures in Odyssey's twenty eight Hours episodes,
but I could not have done this without the help of some very talented folks.
A huge thanks goes to the writer of twenty eight Hours, Kathy Buchanan,
had an amazing job working on this show, and also our show producers
and sound designers, Luke Gono and Zach Schneider. But most importantly, I
thank the Lord Jesus. He is the one that brought this phenomenal team together
and has allowed us to share the gospel in such a unique and exciting way,
and that's the reason why we do this. Blessings to all. Thanks
again, and the Best Sound Design winner was also twenty eight Hours, and
our winners were Luke Gono and Zach Schneider. Oh, I'm Zach Schneider.
I'm Luke, and we just wanted to say thank you for all the work
that you guys do to put on the Seneca Awards. It's really special for
guys like us. Yeah, yeah, it means a lot. So I
just wanted to say, for the past two years that I've been with Odyssey,
I've really learned a whole lot from the other sound designers, people like
Luke, So getting to work with these guys is really a dream come true
for me. So honestly, if I were to accept this award in the
name of somebody else, I would say thank you to the rest of the
team. And this was like the first big project Zach and I worked on
together and it was really fun to collaborate with them, And this project was
a great reminder of how fun it can be to work on a project with
someone. To be part of a team at a long term project or a
long form project like this really gives you a lot of time to get to
know each other and spend time getting to know how the other person works,
so that can be a lot of fun. Yeah, so thank you,
thank you, j D and all this notic a team man. For the
Best Supporting Actress category, we have Melissa Disney as Folly in Crown of Success.
Now, Melissa actually sent in a video and she mentioned holding her previous
trophy. So if you want to see the video, it is linked in
the show notes. But here is the audio I won. Oh my goodness,
and there it is right there, a Seneca Award. I think.
Gorgeous. Yes, oh, thank you. This is really this means a
lot to me. So many times we as artists work in these rooms,
all by ourselves, with people in our heads over headphones, and we have
no idea of what we do makes a difference. And it's really nice to
win an award from time to time, so thank you. I know that
the one for Folly for Crown of Success for the Lamp Ladder Theater is coming
in the mail, but I just wanted to show you what the Seneca Award
looks like. This was when I won previously for another project, and I'm
really honored and blessed by you all. Thank you so much, God bless
you. Best Supporting Actor category. The winner was Mike Shapiro as Leonid Stepanov
in The Lost One. And here's Mike. Hey, everybody, this is
Mike Shapiro. I played Leonid in Adventures in Odysse's episode The Lost One.
I'm very honored to receive this award and my thanks to the Seneca Awards.
I also very much want to thank Nathan and Marshall at Focus on the Family
and our production engineer Chris and Kelly and all of my castmates on the show.
You know, audio drama has been a passion of mine for many,
many years, and as with all theater, a lot of the satisfaction derives
from the experience of collaborating to create something rare and wonderful, and that was
certainly the case in this project. I'm grateful as well to my representatives at
DdO for their role in making so many standout projects possible. And finally,
I'd like to express my greatest appreciation to my own family, to my wife
and our kids, who are and always have been a light in my life.
Thanks very much. We did not get a submission from the Best Leading
Actress, so we're moving on to Best Leading Actor category. Andy Harvey take
it away, Andy. Hi, I'm Andy Harvey. I'm extremely honored to
accept the twenty twenty two Seneca Award for Best Leading Actor. This award means
a lot to me, and I'd like to thank Tracy Vandolder for amazing writing
and for creating Witnesses, and Daniel Cross for helping me with the Hebrew pronunciations.
I've been a professional actor for fifteen years, but I didn't get into
voiceover until about three years ago. My first role in voiceover was Black Donald
and Lamplighter Theater's The Hidden Hand. I was also honored to be nominated for
a Seneca award for that God has led me on a wild ride. Since
then, I've played well over a hundred characters in various projects all over the
world. I'm excited to keep growing as a voice actor and to work with
the amazing people in this industry. My thanks to JD and Audio Theater Central,
the Senecas and the voting committee. The Senecas are very important to me,
and I know many many others agree. It's a really really special event.
Thank you again. And our Best New Show category, the winner was
The Watch. And here are the creators of that show, Randy Strew and
Rby Kern. This Darby Kern and here with my friend Hey, Randy strut
and we are the winners of the Best New Show award for The Watch.
I just wanted to thank some people who made this possible. All the cast
and crew of the show think Craig Hart, Mark Mukahey take care of the
post production absolutely, JD, who has just been super encouraging throughout the whole
process. JD Sutter, the committee. We should we should say thank you
to the committee who did the voting. Thank you people who have listened and
have encouraged us as we've continued on and several truck stops and diners on the
way too, and from Sonic on where this whole idea was created. We
just wanted to come up with an idea for a show and we did that,
and when we got to Sonicon, we talked to a couple of people
about it and they were all like, Hey, I want to I want
to be part of this. So thanks to everybody who encouraged us that way.
Can't wait to do more for you. Yeah. Absolutely, We've definitely
got more coming. A couple of personal thank you. Thank you to Darby
for being a fantastic partner. I have probably learned more through this writing process
than in thirty plus years of writing. So thank you to Darby. To
my wife who not only encouraged me to after I lost my job in radio,
to go out there and pursue my creative dreams, but also puts up
with this weird thing that we do called audio drama. Yeah, I would
thank my family too, my wife, Bobby, Joe, my two two
girls, Elizabeth and Emma. Elizabeth is in the show and can't wait to
do some more acting with her. Yeah, just super excited to share with
you where the watch is going. So watch more story to come. Yes,
lots more crazy think is going to happen, so just be praying that
it all happens. Well. So all right, thank you very much.
And the winner of the Best Short Form Audio Drama was the Honor of obed
Edom. And here is the writer of that episode, Dave Arnold. Hi,
this is Dave Arnold. I'd like to give a huge thank you to
the Audio Theater Central Seneca Awards Committee. This is an amazing honor and I'm
very grateful to be recognized in this way. I'm also grateful to be able
to be a part of a great team that the Lord has used through adventures
and odyssey over the last thirty six years. Now. Admittedly, it's only
through God's creative gifts that any of us can do anything of any real value.
This episode specifically talks about God honoring a man that we actually know very
little about. There's nothing more than a few verses in the Bible about Oba
to eat him. But I felt like his story was important to tell because
it shows the character of a man that's passionate to serve God at any cost,
and God's faithfulness to reward people that do that. God honors those who
honor him, and that's why I wanted to tell this story anyway. I
hope that we can all be in some way like Oba to eat him,
honoring God with our lives. I hope that you will do that in however
God calls you to serve Him. And again, I'm very grateful for the
award. Thank you guys so much. Bless you well. The Best long
Form Audio Drama winner was twenty eight Hours and the writer and director of those
six episodes was Kathy Buchanan. Hi. This is Kathyichannon and the writer and
director of twenty Hours. I was so honored to receive a Seneca Omard for
long Form Drama on the Twenty eight Hours was such a fun show to write,
and I was happy that I just get the recognition and appreciation, and
so I just wanted to thank the fans for listening and for your comments and
encouragement, and also to you all the people at Audio Theater Central for this
wonderful award and for the way that you promote audio dramas everywhere. Thanks guys.
And finally, the People's Choice Audio Drama of the Year winner was Pirateiers
season three, episode one. So here is Jonathan Cook and Alicia Hanson from
Eternal Future Productions. Hi. This is Alicia Hanson and I'm Jonathan Cook.
We are the co founders of Eternal Future Productions. We were so honored to
have won the People's Choice Audio Drama of the Year award for this year Senecas.
It was something we were truly not expecting, but it was a wonderful
encouragement to us, and we're so grateful to all of you who have not
only listened to you and supported our show, but also voted for us this
year. Thank you to Drew Forbes for composing the amazing music for Pirate Teers.
He is incredibly talented and is an instrumental help in bringing our show to
life. Instrumental. I see what you did there? You like that?
Oh very clever? Thank you. Thank you as well to all the voice
actors who dedicated their time and talent to this production. You've truly helped make
our show better than we imagined. We also want to give a huge thank
you to the Senecas and especially to JD. Sutter. Yes, he puts
so much work and talent into recognizing and promoting family friendly audio drama. He's
been an incredible encouragement to us from the very beginning. He's always been there
with answers to our questions, to offer a word of advice, and to
helping hand. And we know we're not the only ones who have experienced his
kindness and generosity. We give all the glory to God. Without him,
Pirate Tiers and Eternal Future Productions would not exist. We are eternally grateful for
the opportunities and people He has brought to us along the way. We are
passionate about what we do, and we love working together. It's been incredibly
fun to bring this show to you, so on behalf of both of us
here at Eternal Future Productions. To all of you, Thank you well.
That wraps up all of our winners acceptance speeches. Thank you to every single
one of you for sending in your recording. Really appreciate that, because not
only do I like to hear from you guys, but I know our audience
also really enjoys getting to hear from you, and several of you mentioned me
specifically. I am very honored that so many of you chose to mention me
in your responses. Totally unnecessary and and I you know, I get a
little embarrassed to buy it, but I do appreciate the gratitude very much,
and I just want to return that and say thank you again for taking the
time to send these in. I know that it is a little bit of
an inconvenience, you know, Oh, you got things going on, You're
working on other projects, and so I do really appreciate you taking the time
to sit down and record a little message for us to share here with the
ATC community. Well, again, I am still processing through all of the
SINECA Awards feedback from last time. More information will be coming on that soon.
I'm not going to be rushing in to make a decision about things,
going to be sure to read everything carefully, going through everything that people have
submitted and looking for some of the you know, the common threads of across
all of the feedback, and we'll make a decision in the next couple of
months about where things will be going in the future. But thank you again
to everybody, And again I will be answering some of the specific questions in
the next episode, so be sure to stay tuned for that. Well,
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to do that. Head over to audio theater central dot com slash contact.
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we talked about in this episode is at audio theater central dot com slash one
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