Full Cast Audio Books - What Are They And How Are They Different?
Today I released my first full cast audio book: The American Fathers Episode 1: Swept Away. A full cast audio book is a recording of a book performed by a cast of actors. SWEPT AWAY's cast includes: Adrianne Cury, Amy Montgomery, Fawzia Mirza, Deb Doetzer, and Scott Duff.
Most audio books are recorded by one actor, who performs the narration and the dialogue of all the characters. Full cast audio books are also called audio dramas, and they provide a listening experience similar to radio dramas, audio plays, radio plays, and radio theater.
The wikipedia entry for the term audiobook includes this definition: An audiobook is a recording of a text being read.
Some Audio Dramas, such as National Public Radio's broadcast of Star Wars, were recorded with the explicit intent of being broadcast over the radio. In recent years, more audio drama recordings are podcast over the internet.
Many full cast audio books were released as novels first, then recorded as dramatized audio books by a cast of actors. Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods was first released as an audio book in 2001, but was released again as a full cast audio book in 2011. The resurgence of audio storytelling is widely attributed to advances in mobile technologies such as smart phones, tablets, and multimedia entertainment systems in cars also known as connected car platforms.
"What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?," October 3, 2014 ''New York Magazine;''
"Podcasts are back — and making money," September 25, 2014 ''The Washington Post''
Full cast audio books are not necessarily easy to find, as evidenced by this discussion on Reddit:
this discussion on Quara:
and this discussion on Goodreads:
I started a list of full cast audio books on Goodreads. Thanks to AmberBug, Ann, and Bruce, my Goodreads list is the most comprehensive list of full cast audio books on the web.
Full cast audio books are not common in the U.S. but seem to be much more common in England. The BBC Stations Radio 3, Radio 4, and Radio 4 Extra have broadcast such productions as Neuromancer.
Neil Gaiman recently received an Outstanding Contribution Award for the radio adaptations of his novel Neverwhere and his Terry Pratchett collaboration Good Omens.
Neil Gaiman and Sir Ian McKellen triumph at BBC Audio Drama Awards
The art produced by the cast of THE AMERICAN FATHERS EPISODE 1 is nothing short of amazing.
Adrianne Cury directed and performed the narration in the episode. Adrianne a proud member of Actor's Equity & SAG-AFTRA; and has been teaching and coaching both adults & teens at ActingStudioChicago since 2004, as well as guest teaching at Triton, North Central College,Theater of Western Springs, and Village Players. She has twice taught, via an NIH grant, a series of acting classes to Senior citizens to track cognitive improvement. Ms. Cury recently finished narrating her second audiobook, Johnny Payne's SECOND CHANCE, soon to be released on Amazon.She received a grant to travel to Grand Manan Island off the coast of New Brunswick, Canada this summer to teach acting to teens for two weeks.
Amy Montgomery plays Sheila McKinley, the idealistic economics professor who rails quixotic against 2032 American feudalism. Amy's credits include Troilus and Cressida, As You Like It, Short Shakespeare! Romeo and Juliet, The School for Scandal, All’s Well That End’s Well and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2. Regional credits include: She Stoops to Conquer, Twelfth Night, King John, Richard III, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Pygmalion (Michigan Shakespeare Festival); A Christmas Carol (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); The Hadeyburg Project (Metropolitan Playhouse, New York); Bump in the Road (New York Musical Theatre Festival), as well as several Ziegfeld Societies Midnight Frolics in NYC. Television credits include Boss. Ms. Montgomery holds an MFA in acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University, a BFA in musical theatre from The College of Santa Fe, and she completed the one-year classical acting program at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
+Fawzia Mirza plays Jasira Sayid, the intriguing congressional correspondent whom Sheila suspects is a dynasty insider. Jasira's charm and attractiveness battle with Sheila's suspicions to create a tantalizing dilemma - stay true to her convictions or open her heart? Fawzia is an actor, a writer, and a producer. She created the web series Kam Kardashian about the long lost lesbian Kardashian sister, Brown Girl Problems, a series about South Asian women who also happen to be regular people with regular problems too.
She performs in Afterellen’s lesbian series The Lphabet, lesbian-centric Buzzfeed video about seeing your Ex that’s already had over 1.2 million views.
Fawzia has been on Chicago Fire and did an educational performance work at universities and military installations performing Sex Signals, the most popular sexual violence prevention show in the world. She produced the award-winning documentary Fish out of Water, and A Message from the East.
+deb doetzer plays Adriane Murray, the flamboyant Dynasty Style TV host of Holding Court. Deb has been working in voiceover, theater and improv for over two decades. A proud member of the performer's unions AEA and SAG-AFTRA, her voice has been heard for such national accounts as Blockbuster Video, State Farm, McDonald's, Nestle's Toll House, Kraft Mac and Cheese, Ford, Breakstone and SC Johnson, among numerous others. She has run the gamut of characters from a Scrubbing Bubble to a Cashew for Fisher Nuts Clear Can campaign. Deb is currently the voice for Emmi Solutions, an interactive medical tool, and can be heard on various PlayStation, XBox and PC games, as well as on a few slot machines in various casinos across the country.
+Scott Duff plays Adam, the stressed out TV producer, and Roy, the engineer and first guest on the days filming of the show Holding Court. Scott is host of WCPT's Out Chicago, the only live LGBT lifestyle show in the Chicago Metro Area. Scott is a Chicago based actor, comedian, theatre educator, and activist. A graduate of Northwestern University, he is a founding member of About Face Theatre, Chicago’s award winning queer theatre company. Scott has performed with the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, and Chicago Shakespeare Theatre.
The American Fathers Episode 1 was recorded at Howling Sow Studio in Oak Park. Needless to say, we are very proud of our full cast audio production, so check it out at Amazon | Audible, and iTunes.
Most audio books are recorded by one actor, who performs the narration and the dialogue of all the characters. Full cast audio books are also called audio dramas, and they provide a listening experience similar to radio dramas, audio plays, radio plays, and radio theater.
The wikipedia entry for the term audiobook includes this definition: An audiobook is a recording of a text being read.
Some Audio Dramas, such as National Public Radio's broadcast of Star Wars, were recorded with the explicit intent of being broadcast over the radio. In recent years, more audio drama recordings are podcast over the internet.
Many full cast audio books were released as novels first, then recorded as dramatized audio books by a cast of actors. Neil Gaiman's novel American Gods was first released as an audio book in 2001, but was released again as a full cast audio book in 2011. The resurgence of audio storytelling is widely attributed to advances in mobile technologies such as smart phones, tablets, and multimedia entertainment systems in cars also known as connected car platforms.
"What’s Behind the Great Podcast Renaissance?," October 3, 2014 ''New York Magazine;''
"Podcasts are back — and making money," September 25, 2014 ''The Washington Post''
Full cast audio books are not necessarily easy to find, as evidenced by this discussion on Reddit:
Hey r/audiobooks, I really love audiobooks, and my favorites are ones with a full cast for voices. I'm not superpickie, even with an individual reader(I liked Roy Dotrice's reading of ASoIaF, which seems to be consistently panned here). I did really love the "His Dark Materials" trilogy cast recordings too.
this discussion on Quara:
Is there a list of dramatized (full cast) audio books?
The BBC aired some really good radio dramas and full cast audio books, however I'd like to know if anybody is maintaining a list of dramatized audio books by category (mystery, sci-fi, etc.).
Are there any good audiobooks out there which feature a full cast? Preferably something that's more like an old-timey radio show with sound FX and music, but just multiple actors would be good, too.
I started a list of full cast audio books on Goodreads. Thanks to AmberBug, Ann, and Bruce, my Goodreads list is the most comprehensive list of full cast audio books on the web.
Full cast audio books are not common in the U.S. but seem to be much more common in England. The BBC Stations Radio 3, Radio 4, and Radio 4 Extra have broadcast such productions as Neuromancer.
Neil Gaiman recently received an Outstanding Contribution Award for the radio adaptations of his novel Neverwhere and his Terry Pratchett collaboration Good Omens.
Neil Gaiman and Sir Ian McKellen triumph at BBC Audio Drama Awards
The art produced by the cast of THE AMERICAN FATHERS EPISODE 1 is nothing short of amazing.
The American Fathers Episode 1 was recorded at Howling Sow Studio in Oak Park. Needless to say, we are very proud of our full cast audio production, so check it out at Amazon | Audible, and iTunes.
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