Brian Price, an audio theater producer, writers, and director, has been working in radio and audiobook publishing since the early 1980s. He first sold 90-second comedic monologues to The Daily Feed in Washington, D.C., and later that decade became a producer and director for the Midwest Radio Theatre Workshop. He was a frequent contributor to the Iowa Radio Project in the early 1990s, and was producer/director for the Dakota Reader, the Grist Mill horror series, and the Native Voices at the Autry in the 2000s. His short skits, plays, and monologues have been performed by community troupes across the country and two of his plays have been translated into Croatian and Chinese. In 1994 he formed the Great Northern Audio Theatre company with frequent collaborator, Jerry Stearns. Although they’ve often been paid in T-shirts and “gimme hats” for their original productions, their partnership has led to Brian and Jerry receiving the Mark Time Grand Master Award for Lifetime Achievement in Science Fiction Audio in 2013, the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre in 2017, and an APA Audie Award for Best in Audio Drama in 2017 for In The Embers. Brian was also nominated “for a 2019 Audie for The Old Cart Wrangler’s Saga. Since 2019 he has collaborated with Marjorie Van Halteren on a number of her audio/poetic pieces, including 2019’s Silence Is Coming. He published his book of monologues and short fiction, The Old Cart Wrangler, The New Silence, and Other Notions, in 2020.
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