SAVE THE DATE...
The First Ever!
Audiobook Marathon LIVE: An ALS
Charity Event
25 Hours, 12 Genres, 1 Amazing Causes!
The Victory Theater in Burbank, CA
Saturday, November 9, 2013
WHEN:
Starts Saturday,
November 9, 2013 at 6:30 PM
Continues until
Sunday, November 10, 2013 at 7:30 PM
WHAT:
The First Ever
Audiobook Marathon LIVE: An ALS Charity Event
You’ve heard them through your
speakers, earbuds, and headphones, now see them perform live! 25 Hours, 12 Genres, 1 Amazing Cause!
The event begins
with a one hour Children’s Hour.
The remainder of
the event will occur in 90-minute performance blocks.
http://www.audiobooksLIVE.org
WHERE:
The Victory Theatre
3326 W Victory Blvd
Burbank, CA 91505
TICKETS:
• General Admission:
$15
• Children’s Hour:
$10 (6:30pm-7:30pm)
NOTE: after initial
hour all tickets apply to 90-minute performance blocks
Audible Inc. has
donated one free download with the purchase of every ticket. Attendance required to collect.
Tickets can be
purchased at
http://audiobooks.brownpapertickets.com
SCHEDULE:
Audiobook lovers
and literature buffs can delight in the rare opportunity to see and hear LA's
top audiobook narrators and celebrity guests come together live to perform
selections from time honored classics and contemporary best sellers of every
genre. The marathon will begin with a
Children’s Hour followed by twelve 90-minute performance blocks. In each block a different collection of five
fan favorite narrators will read selections in a specific genre of
literature.
·
Children’s
Hour 6:30pm-7:30pm
·
Humor 8:00pm-9:30pm
·
Thriller/Mystery 10:00-11:30pm
·
Science
Fiction Midnight-1:30am
·
Erotica 2:00am-3:30am
·
The Undead 4:00am-5:30am
·
Inspiration/Health 6:00am-7:30 am
·
Juvenile
Fiction (Ages 6-10) 8:00am-9:30
am
·
Biography/Memoir 10:00am-11:30am
·
Romance Noon-1:30
pm
·
Classics 2:00pm-3:30pm
·
Multi-Cast 4:00pm-5:30pm
·
Humor 6:00pm-7:30pm
Beer, wine, coffee
and other refreshments will be available for sale in the Lobby.
FUN & GAMES:
As the late night
hours approach, throughout each 90-minute block the narrators and audience will
be issued fun challenges to enhance, complicate, or render completely
incoherent some of our most treasured stories.
Might we get a priceless opportunity to hear Scott Brick read Fifty
Shades of Grey in a Scottish accent with a mouthful of marshmallows? Anything is possible!
PRIZES:
Alongside the
performances there will be raffles with prizes that are sure to excite
audiobook and literature fans alike. There will also be an online auction of
rare items and once in a lifetime experiences.
Online auction
prizes include:
· Lunch with Henry Winkler
·
A
tour of Random House Studios during working hours
·
The
Complete Works of Ernest Hemingway from Simon & Schuster Audio, a $400
value
·
Personalized
voicemail message recorded by famed narrator Scott Brick
·
Visit
George Guidall in a NYC studio and see the master at work
·
Countless
bestselling audiobooks from top publishers Simon & Schuster, Macmillan,
Random House, Scholastic,
Blackstone, Recorded Books and more
·
Hunger
Games set (Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay)
·
Maggie
Stiefvater sets: Shiver series (Shiver, Linger, and Forever), The Scorpio
Races (single title), Raven Cycle series (two titles have been published to
date, The Raven Boys and The Dream Thieves) all in library packaging with cover
inserts signed by Maggie Stiefvater.
·
DVD's:
Scholastic Treasury of 100 Storybook Classics -- This is a box set of 100
Weston Woods films on 16 DVD's
·
Demo
recording: For any NY-based voiceover talent willing to come to Weston Woods’
studio in Danbury, CT, three hours of studio time to record and edit an
audiobook narration demo
·
Gift
cards to Audible.com, High Bridge Audio, eChristian Audiobooks, and many more
·
One-on-one
narration classes with a number of established working instructors including
Carol Monda, Johnny Heller, Robin Miles, Pat Fraley, and Marc Cashman
·
90-minute
in-house massage
·
Voice
Over Talent Listing in Audiofile Magazine, a MUST for new narrators
·
A
ticket to the 2014 Audie Awards Ceremony in New York City
·
A
one year APA (Audio Publishers Association) membership
New prizes added
every week leading up to the show!
To bid on one of
these amazing prizes and many more visit:
Who:
A small sampling of
industry-top narrators who will be involved.
Simon Vance
Scott Brick
John Lee
Julia Whelan
Kirby Heyborne
(and many more)
PROCEEDS:
Proceeds from the
auction will go to the ALS Association.
Ticket sales will go toward medical expenses and a new wheelchair for
beloved audiobook producer Bob Deyan, who has been suffering with ALS disease
for several months.
http://www.alsbob.com
WHY:
The 25 Hour Audiobook Marathon
Live was inspired by audiobook producer Bob Deyan’s current fight
with ALS. Bob and his wife, Debra,
manage Deyan Audio, a recording and production studio that has produced
multiple Grammy and Audie Award winning audiobooks and brought work to hundreds
of narrators and audio engineers.
While enjoying the grand opening
gala of their new studios in Northridge, CA Bob’s leg began tingling. That was the beginning. Bob has been battling ALS for several months
now. He has since lost the ability to
walk and can now only speak on occasion.
Friends, family, and professionals in the audiobook industry were
stunned and saddened by Bob’s diagnosis.
But ever since discovering he is ill, Bob has made it his mission to
battle this disease, which includes raising awareness as well as money for
ALS-related charities. Many in the
industry have rallied behind him, uniting an often solitary community of
professionals. His health, however, has
been fluctuating and with the escalating cost of hospital visits and home care
the audiobook community wants to pick up the torch by continuing to raise money
and awareness for research, and help Bob and Debra with their mounting medical
expenses. All donations raised toward
Bob’s care will be facilitated by the not-for-profit Help Hope Live.
http://www.helphopelive.org
ABOUT:
Deyan Audio:
Bob and Debra Deyan LOVE books
and especially AUDIOBOOKS! So, when Bob and Debra got married they put their
schooling and experience together and dove into the publishing world. When they got started, audiobooks were
recorded to 1/4" tape. Things have come a long way since then!
Deyan Audio is a multimedia
company, which was conceived in 1990 by Bob and Debra Deyan in Van Nuys, CA.
Bob Deyan, from Los Angeles, has a B. A. in Radio/Television Broadcasting from
the University of California Long Beach. Debra Deyan from Virginia Beach, holds
a MBA from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA.
Bob produces, directs, and QCs (Quality Control)
audiobooks, as well as manages the company alongside his wife Debra. He has
produced over 1,000 audio books. Bob has directed celebrity readers such as
Richard Dreyfuss, Craig Ferguson, Raven Simoné, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar, Alice Cooper, Dudley Moore, Juliet Mills, Ed Asner, Patrick
MacNee and recorded Milton Berle, Whoopi Goldberg and Joe Mantegna and many
more. Bob also works with celebrity authors and famous motivational speakers.
Besides more than 20 years in the audio book
business, Bob has had experience as a Television Director, Videographer,
Photographer, Voice Over/Radio Talent and Operations Manager for a Los Angeles
based radio station. During his college days at UCA-LB, Bob was chosen out of
hundreds of applicants to intern on the set of M.A.S. H. for several weeks
based on a script he wrote for the show.
Debra manages the editing and
engineering team and QCs. Debra is responsible for financials and daily
operations. Before Debra started her 20 plus year career in audiobook creation,
she used her MBA in the swimming pool supply business as a Director of
Regulatory and Legal Affairs for 7 years and prior to that she put herself
through college as a saleswoman for 6 years in the wholesale fishing tackle
industry.
ALS:
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a
progressive degenerative disease that affects the nerves and spinal cord. The progressive degeneration of the motor
neurons in ALS eventually leads to their death. When the motor neurons die, the
ability of the brain to initiate and control muscle movement is lost. With
voluntary muscle action progressively affected, patients in the later stages of
the disease may become totally paralyzed.
There is no cure or treatment to reverse the disease.
The mission of The
ALS Association is to lead the fight to treat and cure
ALS through global research and nationwide
advocacy while also empowering people with Lou Gehrig's disease and their
families to live fuller lives by providing them with compassionate care and
support. We are a member of the National
Health Council and the only national organization solely dedicated to fighting
ALS on all fronts while directly serving the ALS community. By leading the way in global research,
providing assistance for people with ALS through a nationwide network of
chapters, coordinating multidisciplinary care through certified clinical care
centers, and fostering government partnerships, The ALS Association builds hope
and enhances quality of life while aggressively searching for new treatments
and a cure.
The Audiobook Marathon Planning
Committee:
Mostly comprised of narrators,
the committee behind the event includes Tara Sands, Cassandra Campbell, Deanna Hurst-Levin, Steve Sidawi, MacLeod
Andrews, Hillary Wilson, Kimberly Farr, Kathe Mazur, Coleen Marlo, Vikas Adam,
Michael Goldstrom, Allyson Ryan, and Jessica Kaye.
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For more
information, photos, or to schedule an interview please contact Lynn Tejada at
213-840-1201 or lynn@greengalactic.com.
