Practitioners
The people who make and answer these calls
Twelve practitioners were interviewed for this archive, across phone theater, interactive audio drama, crisis negotiation, improvised telephonic comedy and autoteatro. A thirteenth interview was conducted and is not attributed here, because that practitioner has not been asked whether they wish to be named.
Every page below is provisional until that person has reviewed it for error. That undertaking was given at the start of each interview and it stands.
Interviewed (12)
- Evan NeidenArtistic Director, Candle House
- Yannick Trapman-O’BrienCreator and sole performer, The Telelibrary
- Megan MarkhamWriter-performer, Phoenix Tears Productions
- Nicky PerfectFormer Director of Hostage Negotiation, United Kingdom
- Griffin McInnesCo-deviser and showrunner, The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries (Outside the March)
- Parker SelaWriter-performer; keeper of the field’s informal catalog
- Ant HamptonOriginator of autoteatro
- Ezra ReavesCo-creator, The Program (San Francisco Neo-Futurists)
- Allen OttoDirector and producer; trial lawyer by trade
- Stepy KameiWriter-performer, interactive audio drama
- AJ DannaCreator, Atomic Hotline
- Thomas DarknellWriter-performer, Perspicuum Immersive Productions (San Jose, CA)
Referenced, not interviewed (5)
Makers and performers whose work appears in the archive, and who are written about here from published sources and from the compiler’s own experience of their work. They have not been interviewed and nothing here is attributed to them as testimony.
- Thomas FlorenceFounder, But Why? — not interviewed
- Monica MiklasPerformer, A Call from the Resistance (Capital W) — not interviewed
- Douglas GoldsteinCreator, The Exchange — not interviewed
- Whitney E. GeorgeCreator, Eavesdropping — not interviewed
- Katy MurphyCreator, Mutable Signs — not interviewed
Precursor (1)
Janet Cardiff has never made a telephone piece. Her catalog is audio walks, video walks and installations, and The Telephone Call is a fifteen-minute video walk despite its title. She is here because this field inherits the surrogate recorded voice from her, and the experience of encountering evidence of yourself you cannot place. That is an affinity, not a medium.
- Janet CardiffArtist — not interviewed