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Tony Palermo
Bio and Credits
Tony Palermo is an audio theatre
producer, performer and educator who
has created radio dramas and workshops for commercial, public and satellite radio, audio
book publishers, the United Nations, the Museum of Television & Radio, schools
and colleges. He performs and teaches across the U.S. and around the world—soon
in Swaziland creating serial dramas for social change dealing with HIV/AIDS.
He produces, writes, directs, scores and does sound design for audio theatre
works. His orientation towards sound, as a writer and also as a sound effects
artist, inventor, and performer, sets him apart from many of his radio peers.
Tony has been blessed to collaborate with such stellar radio writer/directors
as Norman Corwin, Yuri Rasovsky, Peggy Webber, Eric Idle, Roger Gregg, Jim Metzner, Tom
Lopez, Lori Tubert, and Lindsay Ellison. No slouch when in command
himself, in 2005, Tony produced and directed the 60th anniversary production of Norman
Corwin's On a Note of Triumph, perhaps the greatest radio drama of the
20th century, for which he also re-created Bernard Herrmann's
orchestral score.
Tony has appeared with many performers from old time radio as well as
contemporary troupes. He hosts a
Radio Drama Resources website, helping others to create and produce shows;
offering instruction on script formats, scoring, engineering, directing and how
to make sound effects devices. In 2006, he co-authored the audio theatre
production chapter for the book, Podcasting Hacks. He does digitally-based sound design, hosts seminars on the metaphysics of sound, and creates
mechanical sound effects devices, including those heard on public radio's
Prairie Home Companion.
Originally from Ohio, Tony has worked in and
around broadcasting since 1962, starting in a bootleg AM radio station, then
on to commercial music stations, network TV affiliates, cable TV, local,
network and satellite radio. A love for classic radio drama led him to develop the Re-Creating
Radio Workshops for the Museum of
Television
& Radio in Los Angeles. He writes a column on sound effects for the National
Audio Theater Festivals magazine. Tony performs throughout California with
his Sparx Audio Adventures assembly programs. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and
three children.
Credits:
- Audio Theatre/Radio/Audiobooks
California Artists Radio Theatre - Seeds of the Abbey Theatre (Lady Gregory,
J.M. Synge) - sound effects artist/engineer
SaddleBrooke Theatre Guild - Rick Lowell, Private Eye -
director/writer/producer
Oakwood Gorilla Radio - Bat Gunderson, Frontier Proctologist - Lance Manion's
Crimebusters - sound effects artist
Santa Clarita Playhouse - A Christmas Carol - director/writer/producer
L.A. Theatre Works - George Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara - sound effects artist
Sparx Audio Adventures - The Threshold of Sound - writer/performer/producer
Eric Idle's What About Dick? - sound effects artist
Norman Corwin's Strange Affliction - sound effects artist
L.A. Theatre Works - Bertold Brecht's "The Life of Galileo" - sound effects artist
New Mystery Writer's Festival - 6 different plays - sound effects
artist/producer
Native Voices at the Autry's production of Arrigon Starr's Super Indian -
sound effects artist
Yuri Rasovsky's production of Aeschylus' Orestia Trilogy (audiobook) - sound effects artist
L.A. Theatre Works - Kevin Bunin's The Busy World is Hushed - sound effects artist
Laurel & Hardy radio sketches - sound effects artist
San Francisco Exploratorium "Sonic Storytelling Exhibit" - (3 short
plays) - writer/producer/composer
Peggy Webber's "Two One Acts by George Bernard Shaw" - sound effects
artist
Virginia Avenue Project's - Signs of the Times - (18 short plays) - sound
effects artist
Peggy Webber's "Ruggles of Red Gap" - engineer, sound effects artist,
post-production
Yuri Rasovsky's "Sherlock Holmes Theatre" - Audie Award winning audiobook
- sound effects artist
L.A. Theatre Works - "Prisoner of Second Avenue" - nationwide tour
- producer/sound effects artist
Pasadena Playhouse It's a Wonderful Life -- adapter/producer/sound
effects artist
L.A. Theatre Works' "A Tale of Charles Dickens" -- sound effects artist
About That Ark
--
writer/composer/director
Numerous "sonic singles" for downloads and podcasts -- writer/composer/director
Colonel Frothingham, Intrepid Antiquitist - Egypped Again! --
writer/composer/director
Jamison Selby's "Revenge at Collinwood" (Dark Shadows original cast radio
drama) - sound effects
Peggy Webber’s "Reno" (a C.A.R.T production)
-- sound effects, sound design
Norman Corwin's "On a Note of Triumph" - (60th anniversary production) -
producer/composer/director
Jim Metzner's "Passover Dreams" - (For PRI) - sound design, scoring
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas
Carol" -
writer/composer/director (6 separate
productions)
Norman Corwin's "The Plot to Overthrow
Christmas" -- producer/composer/sound effects (2
productions)
Norman Corwin's
"The Odyssey of Runyon Jones" -- producer/composer/sound
effects
Jerome Lawrence & Stanley Rubin’s
“Who Wants to Be
Born These Days? -- producer/composer/sound effects
Numerous appearances with The Liquid Radio
Players, a Los Angeles comedy improv radio troupe
A.J Fenady’s “The Man with Bogart’s Face”
(a C.A.R.T production)
-- sound effects
“The Horn Blows at Midnight” --
producer/composer/sound effects
The Mysterious Traveler - “Five Miles Down” --
composer/sound effects
Lindsay Ellison’s “Silence Sophia” -- sound
effects (with Tom Lopez producing)
Peggy Webber’s “Bloomsday Centennial” (a C.A.R.T
production) --
engineer, post-production
Various audio theater plays for the National Audio Theater
Festival -- sound effects/direction
CBS Workshop - “A Pride of Carrots” --
producer/composer/sound effects
Nine OTR classics -- (Bel Air Drama Department)
-- producer/composer/sound effects (2 productions)
N. Scott Momaday’s “The Indolent Boys” -
(Wells Fargo Radio Theater) -- sound
effects
Hare Dryer --
writer/producer/composer/sound effects (Radio Manila, also numerous
productions)
Ray Bradbury’s “Mars is Heaven” --
producer/composer/sound effects
The Prospect of Glory - (Wells Fargo
Radio Theater) -- sound effects
Mark Twain's "The Mysterious Stranger" -- sound effects (for Roger
Gregg/NATF)
Lucille Fletcher’s “Sorry, Wrong Number” --
producer/composer/sound effects (2
productions)
Pat Novak for Hire - “Go Away Dixie Gillian” -- producer/composer
The Heart of Biddy Mason - (Wells Fargo
Radio Theater) - sound effects
Blast-Off!: Greetings from the Planet Killer - writer/composer/director
Grim Scary Tales: Crusade of Terror! - writer/composer/director
Grim Scary Tales: The Pirate's Curse - writer/composer/director
Yuri Rasovsky’s
“Murder at Woodside
Village” -- sound effects
Hawk of the West: Injuns at Coyote Creek - writer/composer/director
In Old California: Golden Dreams/Golden Nightmares -
writer/composer/director
Inspector Rufflethorpe: The Twitshyre Murder Case -
writer/composer/director
Life's Little Ups & Downs - writer/composer/director
Radio Ranger: Invaders from Earth - writer/composer/director
Rick Lowell - Private Eye: The Stuff Dreams are Made Of (parts
1-3) -
writer/composer/director (numerous productions)
Tales of Outer Space: Children of the Earth -
writer/composer/director
The Shadow: The Hypnotized Audience - writer/director
The Adventures of Superman: Zombies From
Venus - writer/director
Shakespeare on the Air: Macbeth - writer/director
Shakespeare on the Air: Richard III - writer/director
Radio
Goes to the Movies - producer for film/stage series for the American
Cinematheque.
- Children's Theater:
- Several plays (including audio versions) tied to
curriculum.
for an educational publisher.
- Legends of the Map - writer/composer/audio
producer
- Aesop's Fables: The Lion and the Mouse -
writer/composer/audio
producer
- The Little Red Hen -
writer/composer/audio
producer
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff -
writer/composer/audio
producer
- We the People -composer/producer
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- Feature Films:
- Television:
- Music:
- Dozens of radio drama scores - Composer/Arranger
- "Sister Lunch" - Grunge rock demo -
Producer/Engineer
- "Sandy Fene" - Female vocalist demo -
Producer/Engineer
- "Frost-T" - Rap demo - Producer/Engineer
- "Tony Palermo" - Rock, Blues demos -
Singer/Songwriter
- "Video Store Magazine Promo Video" -
Producer/Engineer
- Internet Web Publishing:
Services available from RuyaSonic:
- Radio/Audio Drama:
- Radio scripts in a variety of genres (western,
detective,
soap, horror, Sci-Fi, classics, comedy)
- Sound effects - manual and sampled -
- Sound effects devices for rent (Los Angeles area only)
- Dramatic scoring in a variety of styles
- Directing/Producing/Engineering
- Music:
- Producer/Engineer
- Recording studio available for bookings
- Music publishing (ASCAP)
- Composer/Arranger/Lyricist (member of ASCAP)
- Musician/Singer (member of AFM Local #47)
- Sidelining for films (with many vintage
instruments)
- Writing:
- Radio Dramas
- Screenplays, Industrials
- Journalism
- Advertising
- Skits
- Other Skills:
- Framing and finish carpentry
- Furniture designer and maker
- Prop maker, specializing in mechanical sound
effects
devices
