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Attendees! What did you like best at the festival? Vote for your favorites!
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Best NATF Playhouse or Live Peformance Events
VOTING CLOSES AT 1159 PM CT ON SUNDAY, JULY 31
Best Podcast Palooza Submissions
VOTING CLOSES AT 11:59 PM CT ON FRIDAY, JULY 31
Please respect the integrity of these polls and only vote for events you actually attended or submissions you listened to. Thanks!
2021 Hear Now Festival Table of Contents
This list contains links to all of the event pages for the 2021 Hear Now Festival. Many of these pages contain audio or video content associated with the event.
Follow these links to relive the spirit and at least some of the substance of the 2021 festival so that you can vote for your favorites from the festival.
2021 Independent Audiobook Awards
An Introduction to Norman Corwin
Atlanta Radio Theatre Company: Lady Sherlock and the Case of the Woman in Red
Fears for Your Ears – Producing Horror Audio Fiction
Innovations in Storytelling – Fred Greenhalgh
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 101 Max O’Brien Saves the World
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 232: Hope is a Hard Thing to Let Go Of
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 505 Games People Play
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 870: Hostis Humani Generis
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 901: A Full Rich Day
NATF Playhouse: Atlanta Radio Theatre Company – Mercury 1271: What a Pain
Understanding and Using Foley Effects
Children’s Theatre of Cincinnatti Showcase
Children’s Theatre of Cincinnatti – Velveteen Rabbit
Norman Corwin’s “Between Americans” 2021 and Talkback
Off Mic: Developing and Producing for Geek Culture Podcasts
Soundbooth Theater: Pandemics Through the Ages
Audio Tonight! Breakfast Anytime – LIVE
Audio Tonight! Late Night at Sam’s – A Hard-Boiled Detective Monologue – LIVE
Audio Tonight! ShakeSport the III: First Player – LIVE
Audio Tonight! Tony Brewer & Urban Deer – LIVE
Earplay and Friends – Making Audio Theater Interactive With Voice
Future of Diversity and Inclusion at NATF
Navigating Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Contracts
Production Budgets for Audio Fiction
Innovations in Storytelling (Closing): Eric Martin
Interactive Audio is…Different
Inidana University Theatre – Waycross
NATF Playhouse: The Ernie Pyle Experiment – Episode 2 Facebook Chat-a-long
Short Form Audio Production Workshop Showcase
2021 Hear Now Festival Closing Ceremony and Corwin Award Presentation
NATF Thanks Our Sponsors and Supporters
The Hear Now Festival is funded in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts and Missouri Arts Council.
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