Pang!
Actors: Christopher Rivas, Donna Simone Johnson, Natalie Camunas; Musician: Robert Een; Host: Dan Froot
This video demonstrates Pang!'s live radio play format. Here, a single mom and her ten children are swindled out of their home by a predatory lender. The actors voice multiple characters and create live sound effects, while being accompanied by live musicians. I invite you to close your eyes to get a sense of what the audio podcast version might be like (to launch in summer 2019).
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Actors: Christopher Rivas, Donna Simone Johnson, Natalie Camunas; Musician: Robert Een; Host: Dan Froot
This video demonstrates Pang!'s live radio play format. This is excerpt is from a play about a single mom, her elderly uncle, and her ten children being swindled out of their home. The actors voice multiple characters and create live sound effects, while being accompanied by live musicians. I invite you to close your eyes to get a sense of what the audio podcast version might be like (to launch in summer 2019). At a 1:03 is an example of “Foley pit” techniques we use. The video also shows how we use music to support dramatic action. As with all these work samples, I invite you to close your eyes to get a sense of what the podcast version might be like.
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Actors: Christopher Rivas, Donna Simone Johnson, Natalie Camunas; Musician: Robert Een; Host: Dan Froot
The video demonstrates how we do our best to treat serious topics with sensitivity and humor. It's also an example of non-linear narrative strategies we build upon. Here, the harrowing story of a Burundian refugee family is told by alternating between raw interviews and polished podcast segments. We invite you to close your eyes and listen on headphones, to get a sense of what the podcast version might be like.
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Actors: Christopher Rivas, Donna Simone Johnson, Natalie Camunas; Musician: Robert Een; Host: Dan Froot
This video demonstrates Pang!'s live radio play format, with actors voicing characters and creating a wide variety of live sound effects. Here, a Burundian refugee family tries unsuccessful to convey to a do-gooder journalist just how convoluted and difficult it can be to make a life as immigrants the U.S. This shows our intention to render nuanced real-life situations as theatrical storytelling. We invite you to close your eyes and listen on headphones, to get a sense of what the podcast version might be like.
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Who's Hungry - Santa Monica (2012)
Produced and written by Dan Froot; Designed and directed by Dan Hurlin; Music and Sound Design by Amy Denio. Created in collaboration with performers: Sheetal Gandhi, Rachael Lincoln, Darius Mannino, and Zachariah Tolchinsky. Musicians: Daniel Corral, Mike Flanagan, Amy Denio
In this clip, Cindy is walking across a parking lot from drug court to a van that will take her to a lock-down rehab facility. This becomes “the longest walk in her life,” as she tries to imagine a future without heroin.
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Shlammer (2005)
Written and choreographed by Dan Froot; Directed and designed by Dan Hurlin; Music composed by Chip Epsten; Lighting design by Chlöe Z. Brown; featuring: Dan Froot Paul Zimet Joshua Marmer; Chip Epsten (violin) Andy Ford (euphonium) Lenny DeLuxe (accordion); Translator and dialect coach: Hershl Hartman; Choreographic consultant: Victoria Marks; Body percussion consultant: Keith Terry. Video by Richard Buxenbaum. Performed at the Colony Theater in Miami Beach, presented by Miami-Dade Community College Office of Cultural Affairs.
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