Lance Dann
Lance Dann | |
|---|---|
| Education | Goldsmiths' College, Bath Spa University |
| Known for | Podcasting; audio drama |
| Awards | Sony Radio Academy Awards (2) |
Lance Dann is a British sound artist, audio drama producer, presenter, and writer. He has worked for international theatre and radio since 1994.
Early life and education
[edit]Lance Dann studied radio at Goldsmiths' College and gained his doctorate at Bath Spa University.[citation needed]
Career
[edit]Dann is the founder of radio art group Noiseless Blackboard Eraser (1994–2007) and former associate member of The Wooster Group.[citation needed]
As a radio artist he has worked extensively with composer Rohan Kriwaczek on a series of works for BBC Radio 3, BBC Radio 4 and independent stations internationally. Their collaborations included a long-running series of live radio performances and a trilogy of experimental plays for radio (If on a Summer Night a Listener..., Ho! Ho! The Clown is Dead and Glowboys).[1] Between 1996 and 2000 he worked with The Wooster Group as producer of a sequence of plays for BBC Radio 3 (The Emperor Jones, Phèdre[2] and The Peggy Carstairs Report). He worked as sound designer for the company during the development of To You the Birdie and through performances of House/Lights. In 1999 he recorded two documentaries with Yoko Ono for BBC Radio 3, the first time she'd spoken at length to the British media for over 20 years.[3] In 2001 he wrote a serialisation of John Wyndham's The Day of the Triffids for the BBC WorldService.[4] His 2009 transmedia audio series The Flickerman[5] was serialised on ABC National Radio (Australia), VPRO (Holland) and WFMU (New York). His work in radio and theatre has earned a number of awards including two Sony Radio Academy Awards, a Prix Marulić and in 2014 his independently produced drama The Hungry Earth was nominated for a Radio Academy Production Award.[6]
In 2017 he created the multi-part audio drama series Blood Culture[7] which won the Gold Award for Best Drama Producer and the Bronze Award for Best Sound Designer[8] at the 2018 Audio Production Awards, the Silver Award for Fiction at the 2018 British Podcast Awards,[9] was nominated for a Radio Academy ARIAS award,[10] and was for nominated for a BBC Audio Drama Award.[11] Between 2021 and 2023 he series produced three series of The Rez[12], a children’s audio and multimedia project, the podcast parts of which were distributed by Gen Z-Media and Wondery.[13] The series won him the Gold Award for Best Entertainment Producer and the Silver Award for Best Comedy Producer at the 2021 Audio Production Awards,[14] a Bronze British Podcast Award, a Bronze ARIAS award for drama, a Bronze Signal Award, and a Bronze Lovie (it was also nominated at the Webby Awards,[15] and the British Podcast Awards).[16] In 2022 he created and produced The Day the Earth Didn't Die, a comedy drama series distributed by Audible.
Dann has also presented documentaries and podcasts for the BBC and other audio networks, these include the 2017 Radio 4 documentary Art in Miniature[17] and the 2020 Radio 3 documentary Diorama Drama.[18]
With Martin Spinelli he co-authored Podcasting: The Audio Media Revolution, the first critical analysis of the emergent form of podcasting. It was published by Bloomsbury Academic in 2019, and was a finalist of the American Association of Publishers Prose Awards.[19]
References
[edit]- ↑ Gaisford, Sue (13 April 1997). "They are poets, and they know it". The Independent website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ Cazeaux, Clive (April 2005). "Phenomenology and Radio Drama". British Journal of Aesthetics. 45 (2): 157–174. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayi018.
- ↑ Karpf, Anne (12 January 2000). "Give peace a chance: stop cutting your hair". The Guardian website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ Holmwood, Leigh (11 February 2009). "Eddie Izzard and Vanessa Redgrave line up for BBC Day of the Triffids remake". The Guardian website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ Williams, Zoe (22 April 2009). "Radio head: Flickerman". The Guardian website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
- ↑ "Nominations out for Radio Production Awards". RadioToday. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ "Blood Culture – reinvigorating British narrative audio drama | BN1". 29 March 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
- ↑ "Nominations". audioproductionawards.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ↑ "Winners 2018". Archived from the original on 13 July 2018. Retrieved 20 May 2018.
- ↑ "ARIAS 2017: Nominations | The Radio Academy". The Radio Academy. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
- ↑ "BBC Audio Drama Awards – The 2018 Shortlist – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ↑ "Comic book focusing on teenage mental health and the need for kindness". ITV News. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "Iowa Chapman and The Last Dog". Wondery | Premium Podcasts. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "Winners announced for 2021 Audio Production Awards | Audio UK". Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
- ↑ "Nominations 2022". British Podcast Awards. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Art in Miniature". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Diorama Drama". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
- ↑ "2020 PROSE Awards Name 157 Finalists in Five Far-Flung Categories". Publishing Perspectives. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2022.