MARJORIE VAN HALTEREN
WINS 2018 NORMAN CORWIN AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN AUDIO THEATRE
Marjorie Van Haltern wins 2018 Corwin Award
One of America's great sound artists, producer, director, writer, poet, reporter, professor, and three-time Peabody Award winner Marjorie Van Halteren has been named the winner of the 2018 Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Marjorie studied theatre in the Universities of Michigan and Montana, and performance at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In the 1980s she brought high-quality original radio theatre back on the air in New York City as a producer at WNYC, creating the acclaimed series The Radio Stage, commissioning dozens of new works. The program surprised and delighted the station's management with a huge public response. She also produced documentaries and news features, winning her first Peabody Award in 1985 for Breakdown And Back, a radio series on mental illness.
A native of Detroit, Michigan, Marjorie studied theatre in the Universities of Michigan and Montana, and performance at New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In the 1980s she brought high-quality original radio theatre back on the air in New York City as a producer at WNYC, creating the acclaimed series The Radio Stage, commissioning dozens of new works. The program surprised and delighted the station's management with a huge public response. She also produced documentaries and news features, winning her first Peabody Award in 1985 for Breakdown And Back, a radio series on mental illness.
Teaching has been one of her major focuses; she has taught audio and other media, creative technique and cultural subjects at many institutions including Fordham University and New York University in the United States, and schools in France, and China.
She explored audio art with people like John Cage, Klaus Schoening, and Luc and Brunhild Ferrari; exhibited her work at places like the Espace Saint Omer, artconnexion Lille, and the Whitney Museum of Amerian Art. Marjorie has always had a special love, as well as a very great talent, for audio theatre, and has produced programs in several countries, including the BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, Radio Netherlands, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne. In America, Marjorie was a founding member of the Association of Independents in Radio, helped produce the Bob And Ray Public Radio show for NPR, and taught and directed plays at the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, and produced a series with Helen Engelhardt called "Coming Home to Us." She performs sound poetry in Europe and is currently doing a residency at the Ballet du Nord for a dance project. She produces an audio art podcast called “That Tuesday."
The Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre, given annually by The National Audio Thatre Festivals (NATF), is the premier American recognition of lifetime achievement, regardless of media, in the field of audio theatre. It was instituted May 3, 2010, on Norman Corwin's 100th birthday. The first Award was given to Mr. Corwin himself, who is considered the Grand Master of American radio theatre.
The Corwin Award is announced each year on May 3rd by NATF and presented annually at HEAR Now Festival's Closing Ceremonies, in Kansas City, this year scheduled for Sunday, June 10th, at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom.
Since 2010, NATF's Corwin Award recipients have included Tom Lopez, Peggy Webber, Yuri Rasovsky, The Firesign Theatre (Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Philip Proctor), Judith Walcutt, and Erik Bauersfeld, with Legacy Awards to Himan Brown, Stan Freberg and Orson Welles.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sue Zizza hearnowfestival@gmail.com
President, National Audio Theatre Festivals
Charles Potter cameleopard@earthlink.net
Corwin Award Committee
and visit
www.thattuesday.com/
www.natf.org
www.hearnowfestival.org
She explored audio art with people like John Cage, Klaus Schoening, and Luc and Brunhild Ferrari; exhibited her work at places like the Espace Saint Omer, artconnexion Lille, and the Whitney Museum of Amerian Art. Marjorie has always had a special love, as well as a very great talent, for audio theatre, and has produced programs in several countries, including the BBC Radio 3 and Radio 4, Radio Netherlands, and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Cologne. In America, Marjorie was a founding member of the Association of Independents in Radio, helped produce the Bob And Ray Public Radio show for NPR, and taught and directed plays at the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop, and produced a series with Helen Engelhardt called "Coming Home to Us." She performs sound poetry in Europe and is currently doing a residency at the Ballet du Nord for a dance project. She produces an audio art podcast called “That Tuesday."
The Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre, given annually by The National Audio Thatre Festivals (NATF), is the premier American recognition of lifetime achievement, regardless of media, in the field of audio theatre. It was instituted May 3, 2010, on Norman Corwin's 100th birthday. The first Award was given to Mr. Corwin himself, who is considered the Grand Master of American radio theatre.
The Corwin Award is announced each year on May 3rd by NATF and presented annually at HEAR Now Festival's Closing Ceremonies, in Kansas City, this year scheduled for Sunday, June 10th, at the Holiday Inn Country Club Plaza Ballroom.
Since 2010, NATF's Corwin Award recipients have included Tom Lopez, Peggy Webber, Yuri Rasovsky, The Firesign Theatre (Philip Austin, Peter Bergman, David Ossman, Philip Proctor), Judith Walcutt, and Erik Bauersfeld, with Legacy Awards to Himan Brown, Stan Freberg and Orson Welles.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sue Zizza hearnowfestival@gmail.com
President, National Audio Theatre Festivals
Charles Potter cameleopard@earthlink.net
Corwin Award Committee
and visit
www.thattuesday.com/
www.natf.org
www.hearnowfestival.org
