Lance Dann

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Lance Dann
NationalityBritish
EducationGoldsmiths' College, Bath Spa University
Known forpodcasting; audio drama
AwardsTwo Sony Radio Academy Awards, Prix Marulic, Three Audio Production Awards, British Podcast Award

Lance Dann is a British sound artist, audio drama producer, presenter and writer working for international theatre and radio since 1994.

Life and work[edit]

Dann is the founder of Radio Art group Noiseless Blackboard Eraser (1994–2007) and former Associate Member of The Wooster Group. He studied Radio at Goldsmiths' College and gained his doctorate at Bath Spa University.

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] In 2021 he series produced 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] and 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.

He 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]

  1. ^ Gaisford, Sue (13 April 1997). "They are poets, and they know it". The Independent website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  2. ^ Cazeaux, Clive (April 2005). "Phenomenology and Radio Drama". British Journal of Aesthetics. 45 (2): 157–174. doi:10.1093/aesthj/ayi018.
  3. ^ Karpf, Anne (12 January 2000). "Give peace a chance: stop cutting your hair". The Guardian website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Williams, Zoe (22 April 2009). "Radio head: Flickerman". The Guardian website. London. Retrieved 23 April 2013.
  6. ^ "Nominations out for Radio Production Awards". RadioToday. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Blood Culture – reinvigorating British narrative audio drama | BN1". 29 March 2017. Retrieved 27 May 2017.
  8. ^ "Nominations". audioproductionawards.co.uk. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  9. ^ "Winners 2018".
  10. ^ "ARIAS 2017: Nominations | The Radio Academy". The Radio Academy. Retrieved 5 November 2017.
  11. ^ "BBC Audio Drama Awards – The 2018 Shortlist – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  12. ^ "Comic book focusing on teenage mental health and the need for kindness". ITV News. 22 May 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  13. ^ "Iowa Chapman and The Last Dog". Wondery | Premium Podcasts. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  14. ^ "Winners announced for 2021 Audio Production Awards | Audio UK". Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  15. ^ "NEW Webby Gallery + Index". NEW Webby Gallery + Index. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  16. ^ "Nominations 2022". British Podcast Awards. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
  17. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Art in Miniature". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  18. ^ "BBC Radio 3 - Between the Ears, Diorama Drama". BBC. Retrieved 28 February 2022.
  19. ^ "2020 PROSE Awards Name 157 Finalists in Five Far-Flung Categories". Publishing Perspectives. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 28 February 2022.

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