Charles Potter
CORWIN AWARD SHOWCASE FEATURES 2013 WINNER
2013 Corwin Award winner
Charles Potter
A past President of The National Audio Theatre Festivals, Charles (or Charlie as he prefers) is a multi Grammy and Audie award winning producer / director for audiobooks, and has produced hundreds of hours of award winning audio drama programming, for public radio and community stations, such as WBAI, in New York City.
An eminent audio impresario, Charles Potter, has produced and directed audio drama and award winning audiobooks for Random House, Harper, Simon and Schuster, and Warner Home Audio including dramatizations of X-Men, Ninja Turtles, and Super Mario Brothers comics, dozens of one-hour dramatizations of Louis L’Amour short stories, and many celebrity recordings including Maya Angelou, Allen Ginsberg, John Glenn, Sandra Day O’Connor and Colin Powell.
He has had audio installation work running uptown and downtown in New York (The Jewish Museum and Ellis Island), as well as in Chicago and Austin. In addition, Charlie has both adapted and directed audio drama on the Sci-Fi Channel’s Seeing Ear Theater. Charlie has won numerous industry awards including a CPB, Armstrong and Ohio State Awards, several Audies, and awards from the Houston and Chicago Film Festivals. He has produced three Grammy Award-winning recordings in the Spoken Word category.
But his first love is teaching. As an Adjunct Professor of Film and Television at New York University’s Department of Film and Television and Professor of History and Communications at the Institute for American Universities in Aix en Provence, France, Charles has taught sound and audio drama production at universities and in workshops in the US, Europe and Africa.
In 1979, Charles, along with a few friends from the “sound world,” helped to launch The Midwest Radio Theater Workshop at radio station KOPN. Over thirty years later, those efforts have grown into the National Audio Theatre Festivals which in 2013 launched a sound only festival for audio drama and audio fiction arts -- The HEAR Now Festival.
An eminent audio impresario, Charles Potter, has produced and directed audio drama and award winning audiobooks for Random House, Harper, Simon and Schuster, and Warner Home Audio including dramatizations of X-Men, Ninja Turtles, and Super Mario Brothers comics, dozens of one-hour dramatizations of Louis L’Amour short stories, and many celebrity recordings including Maya Angelou, Allen Ginsberg, John Glenn, Sandra Day O’Connor and Colin Powell.
He has had audio installation work running uptown and downtown in New York (The Jewish Museum and Ellis Island), as well as in Chicago and Austin. In addition, Charlie has both adapted and directed audio drama on the Sci-Fi Channel’s Seeing Ear Theater. Charlie has won numerous industry awards including a CPB, Armstrong and Ohio State Awards, several Audies, and awards from the Houston and Chicago Film Festivals. He has produced three Grammy Award-winning recordings in the Spoken Word category.
But his first love is teaching. As an Adjunct Professor of Film and Television at New York University’s Department of Film and Television and Professor of History and Communications at the Institute for American Universities in Aix en Provence, France, Charles has taught sound and audio drama production at universities and in workshops in the US, Europe and Africa.
In 1979, Charles, along with a few friends from the “sound world,” helped to launch The Midwest Radio Theater Workshop at radio station KOPN. Over thirty years later, those efforts have grown into the National Audio Theatre Festivals which in 2013 launched a sound only festival for audio drama and audio fiction arts -- The HEAR Now Festival.
