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Radio Theater Production

Comprehensive radio play development from concept to final production, bringing storytelling visions to life.

Sound Engineering Service

Professional sound engineering for radio theater productions, ensuring top-quality audio mixes and mastering.

Audio Documentary Services

Professionally produce and narrate engaging audio documentaries tailored to diverse topics and audiences.

Professional Voice-Over Services

Professional and versatile voice-over services perfect for narrations, advertisements, and more.

Professional Voiceovers

Offering crisp and captivating voiceovers for commercials, trailers, and media projects with tailored tonal quality.

Podcast Voice Over

Professional voice-over services tailored for podcast productions, ensuring high quality and clear audio delivery.

  • The Birthday Party-Harold Pinter

  • Captain Kid

  • As You Like it

  • A Piece of Work

  • Wakeville

  • A Midsummer Night's Dream

  • The Importance of Being Earnest-Oscar Wilde

  • At the Movies

  • Johnny Appleseed

  • The Moonlight Contingency

  • Cliche

  • Christmas in Carrollton

  • A Fish Story

  • Imported or Domestic

  • L'hotel Flamboyant

  • Phil and Jan

  • Love in the Time of Corona

  • Joo Joo Eyeball

 The audio production of *As You Like It* performed by Robin Schild is a masterful rendering of Shakespeare’s pastoral comedy, brimming with wit, emotion, and vibrant characterizations. Schild’s nuanced performance captures the playful banter and tender vulnerability of the text with unparalleled precision, making it a joy to listen to. Act Three, Scene Two, featuring Rosalind and Orlando, is an absolute standout. Schild brings an infectious energy to Rosalind's clever wit and a heartfelt sincerity to Orlando's earnestness, creating a dynamic interplay that feels both timeless and intimate. The chemistry between the characters is palpable, and Schild's ability to differentiate voices while maintaining the lyrical beauty of Shakespeare’s language is a marvel. The scene’s charm, humor, and emotional depth leap from the audio, leaving the listener enchanted and utterly captivated. 

Conrad Hurtt
actor
     

 I was blown away by the quality of the production at every level. Soundscapes is a fitting name, and I was transported! Peter Clark author- the Adventures of Mark Twain in the West- How I Became an Author. 

Peter Clark
Client
     

 Robin Schild – Sultans of Swing (Dire Straits cover) Of the hundreds of covers of “Sultans of Swing,” this version stands out for augmenting one part of the original’s success, and highlighting another. Of the parts of the writing, solos, vocals and rhythm section of the original, perhaps the vocals are not the strongest aspect. Schild corrects this to some extent, but the version also captures the importance of the bass of the original. Illsley may have a rounded sense of his own contribution to the success of Dire Straits, but his contribution to “Sultans of Swing” was considerable, if you listen closely. The bass on this version highlights the importance of a successful bassline to a successful cover of the song. 

Mike Tobyn
     
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ROBIN SCHILD

Voiceover Artist/Sound Editor/Partner

Robin Schild has been acting in the Bay Area for decades. He has done many plays, staring at Berkeley High School and later attending UC Berkeley Where he appeared in a number of shows. He has of late been involved with the Ross Valley players and has directed a number of plays at the Fringe festival of Marin. He has a few movies and once worked with Mr T. Lately he has turned his attention toward creating radio plays and voice over productions and is very intrigued with AI. Click on the link to below hear his voice reel

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CLAUDIA ROSA

Voiceover Artist/ Actor/Partner

Claudia Rosa is a professional (AEA) actor and dancer. Appearances include the San Francisco Shakespeare, Pacific Alliance Stage, Sonoma Arts, Teatro Vision, Golden Thread and Abingdon Theatre, NYC among others. She has worked extensively in film, tv, and voiceovers. She is featured in Cliché, Piece of Work, The Moonlight Contingency, and other pieces for Next Step Arts. As a dancer, she is a principal dancer and Associate Director of Grupo Experimental Nago, an Afro-Cuban-Haitian company. Click below to hear voice reel.

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Robert Sicular

Actor

Born and raised in a theatrical family in Berkeley, California, Robert Sicular has been a performer since the tender age of three. His lifelong devotion to refining his craft as an actor has been recognized and rewarded over and over again by the theatrical community and has resulted in a rich and varied body of work. He has appeared in theaters all across America. Locally, in the San Francisco Bay Area, Robert has performed with the Berkeley Repertory, ACT, the San Jose Repertory, the Marin Theatre Company, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and the California/Berkeley Shakespeare Festival. Other theaters where Robert performs or has performed include the Denver Center Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Seattle Repertory, Repertory Theatre of Saint Louis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Sacramento Theatre Company, the Colorado, Lake Tahoe, the Santa Fe Shakespeare Festivals, the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, DC, and for eight years, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland. Screen credits include recurring roles on General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, a starring role in the Sci-Fi comedy thriller, Never Die Twice, a featured part in the Bollywood potboiler, Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya, and the role of “Dad” in Josh Kornbluth’s upcoming feature Love and Taxes.

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