{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"Off Off Pod - Episode 029 - David Marantz - Voice-Over Artist and Actor","description":"David Marantz and Stephen Bittrich in the webseries OFF OFF.\r\nDave and I have been working on projects together for a while… in fact he is one of the stars and a co-producer of the webseries I created, Off Off.\r\nBut in this interview we concentrate on his newest triumph, Audio Book Narrator.  At this time of this interview he's narrated 51 books on Audible.com.  (Check out his page!)\r\nI should also mention that Dave is now starring as Malvolio in the Drilling Company's Shakespeare in the Parking Lot production of Twelfth Night.  (I hear he's quite fetching in yellow cross-garters.)\r\nFor more information about Dave, check out his website.\r\nTopics covered in the interview:\r\n\r\nHi Dave! (2:18)\r\nOur Drilling Company Theater roots (5:24)\r\nThe Whisper Room - Sound Booth (8:45)\r\nDave's impulse to be in the arts (10:03)\r\nHis job helping lawyers take depositions (15:50)\r\nThe voice-over artist is born, Audible Books (19:25)\r\nThe first book, Raising Stony Mayhall, by Daryl Gregory (Audible's "Zombie Book of the Year 2011) (23:38)\r\nLiterary porn and truck drivers (28:51)\r\nA new Neal Asher project, science fiction writer (31:22)\r\nCharacters with unique voices, keeping characters straight, the job's biggest challenges (38:12)\r\nThe engineer, the studio set up (45:00)\r\nRecent book, Innovative State: How New Technologies Can Transform Government by Aneesh Chopra (49:50)\r\nThe money aspect of the job (52:45)\r\nBeing naked on stage, Take Me Out (56:00)\r\n"Most interesting or bizarre or horrible audition story" (1:03:14)\r\nHealth Insurance story (1:09:53)\r\nShout out to the webseries Off Off (1:11:53)\r\n","author_name":"Off Off Pod with Stephen Bittrich","author_url":"http:\/\/offoffpod.libsyn.com","html":"