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Meet the Cast : Paige Steadman

With a little over 2 weeks left until Dragon Con festivities begin, ARTC introduces another dedicated volunteer and performer of our company.

This week, ARTC highlights:

Paige Steadman

Paige Steadman

Paige is a professional actor and musician. She works with The Academy Theatre and Laughing Matters, teaches at The Good Studio, and loves performing with ARTC. In her free time, she writes plays and musicals. She thanks her family, her mentors, her husband, and her purring cats.

If you’re attending Dragon Con 2015, you’ll have the chance to see Paige Steadman bring her talents to the role of Elizabeth in our adaptation of the fan favorite, The Passion of Frankenstein!

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Breaking News! ARTC special live D-Con Performance

BREAKING NEWS!

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The Original Captain Marvel
Fawcett Publications, 1940-1953
DC Comics, 1973-1986

 

SHAZAM!

ARTC announces their live performance of 4 selections from the 1940’s Captain Marvel comics at Dragon Con 2015. The DC Comic Track will host ARTC Saturday evening at 8:30pm in International North located at the Hyatt hotel. These classic favorites will be brought to life with live dramatic reading and live foley sound effects. The cast will be small but powerful with a team of actors playing many different roles and parts throughout the adventure. Put it on your calendars, this is one performance you won’t want to miss!
 

 CAST LIST:

Captain Marvel                                  Adam Ross
Billy Batson                                       Paige Steadman
Joan Jameson                                  Ashley Harp
Princess Rajabuti                            Laura Corliss
Dr. Sivana                                           Joe Ravenson
Mr. Mind                                               Matt Goodson
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The Passion of Frankenstein part 4 of 5

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We’re back with another podcast, and this time we’re coming back to the studio production of The Passion of Frankenstein. Remember, you can get this production in all its glory, with CD quality sound instead of the heavy compression we put on the podcast tracks, right here!

Also, just like the last time we used the studio production, we have no photos from that show, so we’re bringing you more from the LibertyCon show.

The LibertyCon cast for Frankenstein!
The LibertyCon cast for Frankenstein!
Matt Goodson
Matt Goodson as Dr. Victor Frankenstein. Where did he get his PhD, anyway?
Foley for Frankenstein
The best Foley team in all of existence. In this case it’s real FrankenFoley!
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Meet the Cast : Daniel W. Kiernan

With only 24 days to go until Dragon Con, ARTC introduces another dedicated volunteer and performer of our company.

This week, ARTC highlights:

Daniel W. Kiernan

Daniel Kiernan

If you’re attending Dragon Con 2015, you’ll have the chance to see Daniel Kiernan bring his talents to the role of Johnny Raven in our newest release and award winning episode, Blues for Johnny Raven, Episode One: The Ambiance Man.

Thoughts from Daniel on his work over the years:

Now: “I played many different roles in ARTC from Skip Saigon, to Fred Bumper to Johnny Raven and the Monster.”

Then: “Before ARTC I was a performer with MRAP and was known as Great Caesars Ghost, Batman and The Dark Fruit bat.”

Catch a sneak peak of Daniel Kiernan rehearsing for the role of The Monster from The Passion on Frankenstein for our 2015 LibertyCon performance here!

 

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Meet the Cast – Dave Schroeder

As ARTC counts down to our live performances at DragonCon 2015, we are encouraged to tell you more about the talented people who help bring our stories to life!

This week, ARTC highlights:

Dave Schroeder

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Dave is a long time ARTC artist & board member.

Now : Dave Schroeder is a retired Chief Information Officer and aspiring novelist from Grayson, Georgia, who loves being part of ARTC as a voice actor, playwright and board member. In May, after retiring from the business world, he published Xenotech Rising, a science fiction humor novel about supporting alien technology after Earth’s been invited to join the Galactic Free Trade Association. It’s getting five star reviews on Amazon and Dave is now busy writing the second book in the series, Xenotech Queen’s Gambit.

Currently, Dave lives in suburban Atlanta with his highly supportive wife, talented daughter—also an ARTC member, and three cats, though only one of the family felines pays him any attention when it’s not feeding time.

Then: After working as an I.T. executive in the early days of the web and experiencing the absurdity of the dotcom boom first hand, Dave wrote the books, lyrics and music for Softwear.com, a light-hearted musical about two clueless guys trying to create a fashion web site. Putting Softwear.com on stage off-off-Broadway in New York in 2004 was one of Dave’s most memorable experiences. His favorite thing is the world is to hear people laugh when they read, watch or hear things he’s written.

Find out more about Dave Schroeder here.

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DragonCon Performance Cast Announced!

With DragonCon just a little over a month away,  ARTC has begun the process of rehearsing for our live performances. Below is a list of the talented cast which will be bringing these adventures to life! 

Make sure to share the good news with your friends! @artc  #artcradio  /artcradio

Rory Rammer/Queen of the Spaceways (Friday, 4 Sept.)​

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      Announcer – Joe Ravenson
     Rory Rammer – David Benedict
     Skip Sagan – Adam Ross
     Michiko Sakai – Laura Corliss
     Aphrodite DeHavilland – Clair Kiernan
     Dale Alexander – Daniel Kiernan

 

 

Blues for Johnny Raven (Friday, 4 Sept.)​

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   Written by Thomas E. Fuller

     Johnny Raven – Daniel Kiernan/Adam Ross
     Gloria Kinsolving – Fiona Leonard​/Laura Corliss​
     Benny the Gospel – Brad Strickland
     Prowse – Joe Ravenson
     Lorenzo Gold – Daniel Taylor

 

 

Passion of Frankenstein (Sunday, 6 Sept.)​

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     Victor Frankenstein – Matt Goodson/Daniel Taylor
     Monster – David Benedict/Daniel Taylor
     Elizabeth – Paige Steadman/Elisabeth Allen
     Constanza – Kelley Ceccato/Clair Kiernan
     Henry – Ron Butler/Dave Schroeder
     Meyer – Daniel Taylor/Adam Ross
     Eric – Dave Schroeder/Ron Zukowski

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The Passion of Frankenstein part 3 of 5

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Continuing our presentation of Thomas E. Fuller’s powerhouse, The Passion of Frankenstein, this month we bring you a performance from LibertyCon 2015.

As we’ve mentioned several times, the script is like an irresistable force, bearing down on the audience and hitting them with a heady blend of emotion, horror, and intense sound effects. The piece is vocally challenging for our actors. When we decided to bring the performance to World Horror Convention, we knew we couldn’t just perform it once but we also knew that the actors’ voices might never be the same if they had to perform it as many times in a row as we were planning.

So for LibertyCon 2015 we switched up the cast. We hope you enjoy this segment that features several performers brand new to ARTC!

The cast and crew of
The cast and crew of “The Passion of Frankenstein” for LibertyCon 2015
And this is what happens when the director loses control of the performers.
And this is what happens when the director loses control of the performers.

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We’re also bringing you the preview of our upcoming new release, Blues for Johnny Raven! Be sure to check out the IndieGogo campaign to see how you can help us make the CD available to YOU!

 

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31 Years of ARTC: The Last Dragon to Avondale 2010

Continuing our look back at ARTC’s 31 years (thusfar!) with photos from our live performances. You can get a look at our whole history of combining adventures in sound with the thrill of live performance in our Chronology!

In this installment we bring you our appearance at the Academy Theatre in October 2010 where we performed The Last Dragon to Avondale along with The House Across the Way, featuring music by Brad Weage and Paul Mercer, and Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: The Colour of the Shadow of the Outsider Over the Mountains of Madness Out of Space. This performance was a benefit for Georgia Aquarium (it was one of our first benefit performances, in fact!) and also included special musical guest Rooke! Check out all the pictures on our Flickr album.

In 2010 we debuted our Partners in Imagination program, which strives to harness the power of multiple non-profit groups into something stronger by raising awareness amongst our various audiences and maybe even a little money as well.

Megan Tindale and Brian Troxell
Psst…there’s not a lot of money in this…at least not yet.

We had originally wanted to do this benefit for Georgia Aquarium with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, but it became apparent very quickly that the script wouldn’t be ready in time, so we switched gears to The Last Dragon to Avondale. We felt that its focus on an “endangered species” made it a great fit.

Andrew Chiang and Sonya Arundar
“You keep telling yourself that, ok?”

Plus, we’d been performing at the Academy Theatre in Avondale Estates for a while at this point and to NOT perform this piece there would have been a crime against … well, a crime against something. Dragons, maybe.

The audience for
We got a good turnout, too!

We also had the privilege of working with some amazing musicians on this piece. There was Brad Weage.

Brad Weage
The very serious Brad Weage

Paul Mercer on violin. This was Paul’s first appearance with us!

Paul Mercer
The equally serious Paul Mercer

And our special musical guest, Rooke! Rooke has been around since the late 1980s and play a kind of (in their words) acid folk. We couldn’t quite get the whole band for this show, but we were thrilled to get Steven Sams, David Cater, and Keena Graham!

Steven Sams, Keena Graham, and David Cater
The not-quite-so-serious Rooke!

Rooke actually released an album of the recordings from this performance, so go get some great music!

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31 Years of ARTC: The Island of Dr. Moreau 2010

Continuing our look back at ARTC’s 31 years (thusfar!) with photos from our live performances. You can get a look at our whole history of combining adventures in sound with the thrill of live performance in our Chronology!

In this installment we bring you our appearance at the Academy Theatre in October 2010 where we performed The Island of Dr. Moreau, featuring music by The Ghosts Project, along with Inhuman Rights, Rory Rammer, Space Marshal: Set Loose the Dogs of Time, and Bumpers Crossroads: The Stray Dog. This performance was a benefit for the Atlanta Humane Society and also included special musical guest Julie Gribble! Check out all the pictures on our Flickr album.

Ok, first up, we know that using The Island of Dr. Moreau as a benefit for the Atlanta Humane Society sounds like a sick joke.

Fiona K. Leonard and Daniel Taylor.
Really sick.

But the truth was that we thought it was a perfect choice to highlight the plight of animals. While it’s true that nobody is trying to turn animals into humans surgically…

Hal Wiedeman, Rachel Wansker, Clair W. Kiernan, Daniel W. Kiernan
THAT WE KNOW OF…

…animals still face serious challenges every day due to neglect, maltreatment, habitat loss, and various other challenges. We wanted to help, and we felt that one of H. G. Wells’s more shocking stories might assist with that.

Ron N. Butler, Brian Troxell, Hal Wiedeman, J. E. Hurlburt
And goodness knows we can use all the help we can get.

This was also a musically packed performance. In addition to the usual brilliance of Alton Leonard, we were thrilled to be graced with The Ghosts Project!

Daniel Taylor, Clair W. Kiernan, Paul Mercer, Davis Petterson
There they are, lurking in the background. Try not to frighten them.

Not to mention our very special musical guest, Julie Gribble!

Julie Gribble
With suitably dramatic lighting

This performance also featured our Beast Men Chorus, led by Beastmistress Trudy Leonard.

The Beast Chorus
Try not to let THEM frighten YOU. (click this image for a larger version)

Not to mention one of the more violent Foley performances in ARTC’s history, involving a rubber mallet and a rather unfortunate butternut squash, used to simulate the cracking of the pantherwoman’s skull.

Butternut squash
Before (front)
butternut squash
Before (back) (it saw what happened to its predecessors…)
Sonya, Mary Ward, David Benedict
The dastardly deed
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The evidence of the crime

Be sure to come see more crimes against produce as we mangle a grapefruit in our upcoming performances of The Passion of Frankenstein!

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The Passion of Frankenstein part 2 of 5

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As we mentioned last month, we’re bringing you The Passion of Frankenstein in five parts and will be showcasing a different performance for at least the first four. We hope. We haven’t performed two of these yet and if the recording devices fail (it’s happened) then we might have to improvise. Part five will probably include the best performance of those scenes, but who knows? We might surprise ourselves.

Paige Steadman Ross and Kelley S. Ceccato
Surprise!

This month we’re bringing you a section of the studio recording that we did at Audio Craft Studio back in 2002. This is what we refer to as the “original cast”. The pictures in this entry are still from World Horror Convention 2015, though, because we don’t have any pictures from any of the other performances yet. Talk to us after LibertyCon and Dragon Con. So the picture below of Thomas E. Fuller and Henry Howard at Audio Craft will have to do.

Thomas Fuller and Henry Howard admire an issue of the Centauri Express audio magazine at Audio Craft Studio
Thomas Fuller and Henry Howard admire an issue of the Centauri Express audio magazine at Audio Craft Studio

The studio recording was, literally, a monster to produce. The rich soundscape we talked about in last month’s entry is difficult to produce live, but surely in the studio it’s easier, right? Wrong.

Christina Fuller and Matt Gwaltney
What do you mean it’s not easier??

First, in the studio the standards are higher. Live audiences are very forgiving (thank goodness!), but once it’s on a recording all the little flaws stick out, so there’s a lot of precision work that has to get done. And the music, which in a live performance has a little bit of ebb and flow and adjustment to it, had to get timed out to the second to make the scenes work the way they were supposed to.

And then there was the review process.

Anthony Fuller and Bob Brown
“Our opinion of that draft of the recording might be at the bottom of this bucket. Or maybe it’s under it.”

See, this was back in the early 2000s when the Internet was only barely a thing for the general public. Cloud storage didn’t exist. Websites were hosted on Angelfire and Geocities. And CD-R technology wasn’t even remotely as reliable as it is now. We couldn’t just create an mp3, put it on a server somewhere, and have beta listeners download it and give feedback. We had to try to gather everyone together at the same time and have a listening party. On one memorable occasion we had all the relevant parties in the room…and the CD wouldn’t play. And burning another one would have involved an hour of driving and probably 30 minutes to actually burn the disk. So we all went home.

Ah, those were the good old days…