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Audiobooks Narrated by Simon Templeman
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"A delightful British comedy from the wonderful world of P.G. Wodehouse! The perpetually misguided Bertie finds himself embroiled in a madcap adventure sparked by the abrupt departure of his beloved Jeeves. Adapted by Mark Richard.
Recorded before a live audience at the DoubleTree Guest Suites, Santa Monica in April 1998.
Director: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Gregory Cooke as Chuffy
Kenneth Danziger as Sergeant Voules
Alastair Duncan as Brinkley/Seabury
Dominic Keating as Constable Dobson
Mayor Richard Riordan as J. Washburn Stoker
Guy Siner as Sir Roderick Glossop
Simon Templeman as Bertie
Jennifer Tilly as Pauline Stoker
Paxton Whitehead as Jeeves
Radio Producer: Raymond Guarna
Foley Artist and Stage Manager: Tilo Ponder"
"Henry may be the wittiest playwright of his generation, but he's hopelessly naïve when it comes to understanding love and infidelity. Writing about betrayal is one thing, living with it is another. After Henry leaves his wife for another woman, he's confronted with being the cuckold himself. Both dazzlingly clever and emotionally naked, Henry's search for the "the real thing" in art and love demonstrates beautifully why both are worth the effort in the end.
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in November 2008.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Andrea Bowen as Debbie
Matthew Gaydos as Brodie and TV Director
Carolyn Seymour as Charlotte
Simon Templeman as Henry
Douglas Weston as Max
Joanne Whalley as Annie
Matthew Wolf as Billy
Associate Producers: Jennifer Brooks and Christina Montaño
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor/Mixer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Theresa Arrison
Music Supervisor: Scott Willis"
"Soon to be a major new film adaptation written and directed by Guillermo del Toro
This special unabridged, multivoiced production of Mary Shelley’s masterpiece of nineteenth-century Gothic horror is narrated by film and television star Anthony Heald, joined by Grammy winner Stefan Rudnicki and actor Simon Templeman, under the direction of award-winning audio producer Yuri Rasovsky.
Dr. Victor Frankenstein, an ambitious young scientist, is consumed by a fanatic desire to create a living being. He fashions an eight-foot creature and succeeds in animating him but, horrified by his visage, perceives his creation to be a monster and frightens him away. The monster, wandering in search of human companionship, is spurned and repulsed by all he approaches and learns to hate and to kill. He confronts his maker with a terrible choice: unless Frankenstein creates for him a mate, he will go on a rampage of destruction.
A subversive tale about the corrupt tendencies in humanity’s most “civilized” ambitions, this haunting thriller, the original science fiction novel, maintains its hold in the collective imagination centuries after its first publication."
"Ambition and jealousy - all set to music. Devout court composer Antonio Salieri plots against his rival, the dissolute but supremely talented Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. How far will Salieri go to achieve the fame that Mozart disregards? The 1981 Tony Award ® winner for Best Play.
Recorded before a live audience at the UCLA James Bridges Theater in September, 2016.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Steven Brand as Baron van Swieten
James Callis as Mozart
Michael Emerson as Salieri
Darren Richardson as Venticello 2
Alan Shearman as Count Orsini-Rosenberg
Mark Jude Sullivan as Venticello 1
Simon Templeman as Joseph II
Brian Tichnell as Count Johann Kilian Von Strack
Jocelyn Towne as Constanze
Associate Artistic Director, Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer, Recording Engineer and Mixer, Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Foley Artist, Jeff Gardner. Production Manager, Tori Burnett. Editor, Mitchell Lindskoog. Music Supervisor, Scott Willis. Foreign Language Consultant, Matthew Wolf. Select Original Sound Design by Darron L. West, performed by Victor Zupnac."
"Jimmy Porter barely ekes out a living running a candy stall by day and playing jazz trumpet by night. Although he usually takes his frustrations out on his emotionless wife, Jimmy's scathing tongue and self-loathing seem destined to destroy everything. Set in the UK at the dawn of the '60s social unrest, this savage morality tale spawned the phrase "angry young man."
Original music performed by Elliott Caine on the trumpet.
Includes an interview with Dan Rebellato, author of "1956 and All That: The Making of Modern British Drama."
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at The James Bridges Theater, UCLA, in March of 2012.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Steven Brand as Cliff
Moira Quirk as Alison
Simon Templeman as Jimmy
James Warwick as Colonel Redhorn
Joanne Whalley as Helena
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor:
Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Trumpet: Elliot Caine
Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo
Music Supervisor: Scott Willis"
"In this darkly comic, poignant, and at times surreal play, two couples in Tunisia — one Muslim and one Jewish — share a deep and complicated friendship before the German takeover of their country in World War 2. Now under a brutal regime, they face the truth about their long-simmering feelings about friendship and romance as they struggle to save themselves from a Nazi commandant - named Grandma.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood in September 2022
Directed by Anna Lyse Erikson
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording starring:
Laila Ayad as Faiza
Tara Lynne Barr as Loys
Patrick Heusinger as Victor
Daniel David Stewart as Little Fella
Simon Templeman as Grandma
Pej Vahdat as Youssef
Senior Producer: Anna Lyse Erikson
Sound Design: David Wilson and Charles Carroll
Recording Engineer, Editor and Mixer: Charles Carroll
Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin
Foley Artist: Jeff Gardner"
"The blowhards, the know-it-alls, the scrupulous and the impecunious are all targets for Shaw's incisive wit in his classic satire of the medical profession. A well-respected physician is forced to choose whom he shall save: a bumbling friend or the ne'er-do-well husband of the woman he loves.
Includes a conversation with Dr. Neil Wenger, the Director of the Healthcare Ethics Center at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The Doctor's Dilemma is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, bridging science and the arts in the modern world.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 1998.
Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Jane Carr as Emmy/Minnie Tinwell
Gregory Cooke as Redpenny/Newspaper Man
Kenneth Danziger as Dr. Blinkensop/Mr. Danby
Roy Dotrice as Sir Patrick Cullen
Martin Jarvis as Sir Colenso Ridgeon
Jennifer Dundas as Jennifer Dubedat
Simon Templeman as Cutler Walpole
Douglas Weston as Louis Dubedat
Paxton Whitehead as Sir Ralph Bonington
Recording and Mixing Engineers: Raymond Guarna, Ed Cerrato; Sound Effects Artist: Jon Lovick"
"Simon Templeman stars as brilliant mathematician Alan Turing, the man who cracked the German Enigma code and enabled the Allies to win World War II. Shortly after, Turing was to find that the country he saved cared less about his genius and more about his sexual orientation.
Based on the book "Alan Turing: The Enigma" by Andrew Hodges.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in July, 2003.
Breaking the Code is part of L.A. Theatre Works' Relativity Series featuring science-themed plays. Lead funding for the Relativity Series is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to enhance public understanding of science and technology in the modern world.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Sheelagh Cullen as Sara Turing
Kenneth Danziger as Detective Mick Ross
Peter Dennis as John Smith
Samantha Robson as Pat Green
Orlando Seale as Ron Miller
W. Morgan Sheppard as Dillwyn Knox
André Sogliuzzo as Christopher Morcom and Nikos
Simon Templeman as Alan Turing
Associate Producer: Susan Raab
Recording Engineer: David Kelly for Voicebox Studios
Assistant Recording Engineer/Editor: Mark Holden
Live Sound Effects: GiGi Garcia"
"Sir Laurence Olivier. Orson Welles. Vivien Leigh. Joan Plowright. Kenneth Tynan. When these champions of the theatre get together to rehearse Ionesco’s Rhinoceros, mere mortals best step aside. With lightning wit and scathing insight into the true nature of genius, Austin Pendleton’s play opens the private worlds of these very public people, exposing their warmth, their egos, and their glittering madness.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring:
Caroline Goodall as Joan Plowright
Glenne Headly as Vivien Leigh
Martin Jarvis as Laurence Olivier
Robert Machray as Orson Welles
Orlando Seale as Sean
Simon Templeman as Kenneth Tynan
Associate Producer: Susan Raab
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer/Editor: David Kelly for Voice Box Studios
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in February 2003."
"Before Twilight and True Blood, only one vampire commanded "the children of the night." In this bloodthirsty tale of unholy terror, Count Dracula slips into Victorian London with a cargo of his native Transylvanian soil - so he can rest between victims. The city seems helpless against his frightful power, and only one man, Dr. Van Helsing, can stop the carnage. But to do this, he must uncover the vampire's lair and pierce his heart with a wooden stake.
Recorded in Los Angeles before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center in May 2011.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
Denise Carole as Tart/Others
Sheelagh Cullen as Mrs. Westenra/Others
John Glover as Renfield
Karl Miller as Jonathan Harker
Lisa O'Hare as Mina Murray Harker
Moira Quirk as Lucy Westenra
David Selby as Abraham Van Helsing
André Sogliuzzo as Maxwell/Others
Simon Templeman as Count Dracula
Nick Toren as Dr. John Seward
Matthew Wolf as Arthur Holmwood
Recording Engineer/Sound Designer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Associate Producer: Christina Montaño
Sound Effects Artist: Theresa Arrison
Stage Manager: Jared Cox"
"Elizabeth I of England is threatened by the survival of her Catholic cousin, Mary Stuart. Wrestling with her own conscience, the Queen agonizes over Mary's fate, amidst fears for her own life. Court intrigue has never been more gripping than in this "acute study in the art of double-dealing politics." (The New York Times)
Includes an interview with Jane Dunn, author of Elizabeth & Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens.
Recorded before a live audience at the Skirball Cultural Center, Los Angeles in December 2006.
Directed by Rosalind Ayres
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Sheelagh Cullen as Hanna Kennedy
Kenneth Danziger as Amias Paulet
Seamus Dever as Mortimer
Jill Gascoine as Elizabeth
Matt Gaydos as O'Kelly
Martin Jarvis as Lord Burleigh
Alex Kingston as Mary Stuart
Christopher Neame as William Davison
Alan Shearman as Melvil
W. Morgan Sheppard as George Talbot
Simon Templeman as Robert Dudley
Associate Producer: Brendon Fox; Recording Engineer, Sound Designer and Mixer: Mark Holden; Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo; Stage Manager: Erica Christensen; Music Supervisor: Scott Willis.
Dedicated to the memory of Susan Raab Simonson."
"Romantic havoc ensues in the town of Bath when Sir Anthony arrives to arrange the marriage of his son Captain Jack Absolute to the wealthy Lydia Languish. Jack and Lydia are already in love, but because of Lydia’s obsession with romantic novels, Jack has disguised himself as a poor officer named Ensign Beverly - and he is only one of Lydia’s many suitors. The Rivals was Sheridan’s first play, and this charming comedy of manners continues to be widely performed today.
Includes an interview with Linda Kelly, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the author of Richard Brinsley Sheridan: A Life.
Recorded at The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood, in May 2011.
Adapted for Radio and Directed by: Martin Jarvis
Producing Director: Susan Albert Loewenberg
An L.A. Theatre Works Full-Cast Performance Featuring:
Rosalind Ayres as Mrs. Malaprop
Kenneth Danziger as Thomas
Lucy Davis as Lydia Languish
Neil Dickson as David
Sarah Drew as Julia
Julian Holloway as Sir Lucius OÕTrigger
Christopher Neame as Sir Anthony Absolute
Lloyd Owen as Captain Jack Absolute
Moira Quirk as Lucy
Alan Shearman as Fag
Simon Templeman as Bob Acres
Matthew Wolf as Faulkland
Associate Producer: Christina Montaño
Recording, Editing, and Mixing Engineer:
Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood
Sound Effects Artist: Tony Palermo"
