Tony Palermo: Short Bio and Credits

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Tony Palermo: Short Bio and Credits

Who?

Tony Palermo, presides over the tiny empire of Encyclo-Media, a multiple media (but not multi-media) production company located in Los Angeles, California. He can be reached via e-mail at Palermo@sprynet.com

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Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, Tony has worked as a radio dramatist, composer, radio/stage/film director, disc jockey, record and video store manager, computer consultant, screenwriter, movie prop man, film director, advertising agency honcho, musician, record producer and recording engineer. He is the haplessly married father of three (including twin first-graders) and grand wahzeer of The Mutual Admiration Society. His hobbies include music, food, film and folk singing with children. His shoe size is 12D.

Will sing for food...

Tony plays a variety of musical instruments including guitar, bass, keyboards, drums, saxophones, banjo, autoharp, mandolin, dulcimer, various percussion instruments and harmonica. He is a MIDI musician with way too much gear, according to spunky spouse, Carla Fantozzi. Tony operates Encyclo-Media Studios producing everything from Rap and Grunge groups to female vocalists and radio dramas and soundtracks. An avid record collector, Tony has "big ears" for a wide variety of musical genres. For years he has performed for children in schools, especially doing classic American folk songs for kids. Will radio for food... A love for classic radio drama led to producing the Re-Creating Radio Workshop for the Museum of Television & Radio in Los Angeles and New York. Tony has written over two dozen radio dramas in a variety of genres as well as adapted Charles Dickens and William Shakespeare for the medium. He also composes dramatic underscoring for radio, fabricates sound effects devices and directs. He has produced a similar workshop for the Thousand Oaks Public Library, northwest of Los Angeles. In addition, Tony has written and produced plays for classroom use for Spotlight Enterprises, a nationwide educational publisher. He recently produced the film/radio series Radio Goes to the Movies for the American Cinematheque. He also founded the Los Angeles Radio Drama Network--a resource pool for local radio thespians. He also writes a regular column for the National Audio Theater Festivals magazine. Will film for food... His musical career led Tony to work in Hollywood films. On the 1995 feature Grace of My Heart, produced by Martin Scorsese, Tony served as a technical advisor and musical prop man for recreating the world of late 1950's to 1970's recording studios for the fictionalized Carole King story. Tony provided a similar service for the 1994's Reality Bites starring Wynona Rider and Ben Stiller. In addition to on-set work, Tony produces graphic props and was once developing a prop database. Tony has also worked as a cameraman, grip, editor, and swing gang carpenter. See his listing in the Internet Movie Database. Will also compute for food... Also a computer programmer, Tony has developed database software applications for the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Xerox Corporation, Union Bank, the City of Pasadena, California, and numerous manufacturers. He is conversant with PC, Unix, Vax and IBM Mainframe operating systems. He's also handy with Internet web publishing. Is there anything this guy doesn't do? As a writer for media other than radio, Tony has authored several independently produced screenplays including Proposition M, Better Wed than Dead and Guillotine Eddy Gets the Axe as well as performance art pieces and numerous humorous skits. He curated art exhibitions and produced several film retrospectives at the Los Angeles Public Library. Since 1983, he has written and published The MAd Societeer, official newsletter of the Mutual Admiration Society. The MAd Societeer and its WWW companion, The MAd Socyberteer, a "not even- yearly" newspaper loaded with satire, gossip, recipes, fiction, music, film and restaurant reviews and "plenty of complaining letters" all written by Tony under a variety of goofy psuedonymns. The title of his in-progress auto-biography sums up it all up, Too Little,Too Soon!

Credits:

Radio:

Auntie Scrooge - A Backwards Christmas Carol - writer (not yet produced)
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" - writer/composer/director (6 separate productions)
Norman Corwin's "The Plot to Overthrow Christmas" -- producer/composer/sound effects (2 productions)
Norman Corwin's "The Odyssey of Runyon Jones" -- producer/composer/sound effects
Jerome Lawrence & Stanley Rubin’s“Who Wants to Be Born These Days? -- producer/composer/sound effects (2 productions)
Numerous appearances with The Liquid Radio Players, comedy improv radio troupe
A.J Fennedy’s “The Man with Bogart’s Face” (a C.A.R.T production) -- sound effects
“The Horn Blows at Midnight” -- producer/composer/sound effects
The Mysterious Traveler - “Five Miles Down” -- composer/sound effects
Yuri Rasovsky’s “Sherlock Holmes Theater” (three plays for audio book) - sound effects
Lindsay Ellison’s “Silence Sophia” -- sound effects
Peggy Webber’s “Bloomsday Centennial” -- engineer, post-production
Various audio theater plays for the National Audio Theater Festiva -- sound effects/direction
CBS Workshop - “A Pride of Carrots” -- producer/composer/sound effects
Nine OTR classics -- (Bel Air Drama Department) -- producer/composer/sound effects (2 productions)
N. Scott Momaday’s “The Indolent Boys” - (Wells Fargo Radio Theater) -- sound effects
Hare Dryer -- writer/producer/composer/sound effects (Radio Manila, also numerous productions)
Ray Bradbury’s “Mars is Heaven” -- producer/composer/sound effects
The Prospect of Glory - (Wells Fargo Radio Theater) -- sound effects
Lucille Fletcher’s “Sorry, Wrong Number” -- producer/composer/sound effects (2 productions)
Pat Novak for Hire - “Go Away Dixie Gillian” -- producer/composer
The Heart of Biddy Mason - (Wells Fargo Radio Theater) - sound effects
Blast-Off!: Greetings from the Planet Killer - writer/composer/director
Grim Scary Tales: Crusade of Terror! - writer/composer/director
Grim Scary Tales: The Pirate's Curse - writer/composer/director
Yuri Rasovsky’s “Murder at Woodside Village” -- sound effects
Hawk of the West: Injuns at Coyote Creek - writer/composer/director
In Old California: Golden Dreams/Golden Nightmares - writer/composer/director
Inspector Rufflethorpe: The Twitshire Murder Case - writer/composer/director
Life's Little Ups & Downs - writer/composer/director
Radio Ranger: Invaders from Earth - writer/composer/director
Rick Lowell - Private Eye: The Stuff Dreams are Made Of (parts 1-3) - writer/composer/director (numerous productions)
Tales of Outer Space: Children of the Earth - writer/composer/director
The Shadow: The Hypnotized Audience - writer/director
The Adventures of Superman: Zombies From Venus - writer/director
Shakespeare on the Air: Macbeth - writer/director
Shakespeare on the Air: Richard III - writer/director
Radio Goes to the Movies - producer for film/stage series for the American Cinematheque.

Children's Theater:

Several plays (including audio versions) tied to curriculum. for an educational publisher. These are for production by elementary school children.

Legends of the Map - writer/composer/audio producer

Aesop's Fables: The Lion and the Mouse - writer/composer/audio producer

The Little Red Hen - writer/composer/audio producer

The Three Billy Goats Gruff - writer/composer/audio producer

We the People -composer/producer

Feature Films:

Grace of My Heart (Grammercy Pictures) - Technical advisor/Music props

Reality Bites (Jersey Films) - Music Props, other props

Television:

A Father for Charlie (CBS) - Props, Graphics

A Body to Die for: The Aaron Henry Story - (HBO) Swing gang

The Monroes (ABC) - Graphics

Legends of the Hidden Temple (Nickelodeon) - Prop fabrication

Love in the Dark Ages (CBS) - Grip

Better Wed than Dead (Boomtown Prods) - Writer/Director

Various actors' demo reels - Video Editor

Music:

Dozens of radio drama scores - Composer/Arranger

"Sister Lunch" - Grunge rock demo - Producer/Engineer

"Sandy Fene" - Female vocalist demo - Producer/Engineer

"Frost-T" - Rap demo - Producer/Engineer

"Tony Palermo" - Rock, Blues demos - Singer/Songwriter

"Video Store Magazine Promo Video" - Producer/Engineer

Computer Software Development:

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (PC)

Xerox Computer Services (Unix)

Amada Cutting Technologies (Unix)

Cytec Structural Materials (IBM Mainframe)

Johnson & Johnson Company (Unix)

Internet Web Publishing:

Kurzweil K2000/K2500 Launch Pad

Radio Drama Resources

Services available from Encyclo-Media:

Radio/Audio Drama:

Radio scripts in a variety of genres (western, detective, soap, horror, Sci-Fi, classics, comedy)

Sound effects - manual and sampled - SFX kit rentals, prop making

Dramatic scoring in a variety of styles

Directing/Producing/Engineering

Music:

Producer/Engineer

Recording studio available for bookings

Music publishing (ASCAP)

Composer/Arranger/Lyricist (member of ASCAP)

Musician/Singer (member of AFM Local #47)

Sidelining for films (with many vintage instruments)

Film and Television Production:

Prop rental: Guitars, Drums, keyboards, horns, percussion, mics, stands

Prop man: Pre-production and on-set

Prop fabrication

Graphics: Documents, wanted posters, etc.

Video production and editing. (Demo reels, info-mercials, weddings, bar- mitzvahs even!)

Computers:

Electronic publishing on WWW

Database application design and development

PC Hardware and Software consulting

Technical writing:

Specifications, user guides & tutorials, also in hypertext

Creative Writing:

Radio Dramas

Screenplays, Industrials

Journalism

Advertising

Skits

Other Skills:

Framing and finish carpentry

Furniture designer and maker

Prop maker, specializing in mechanical sound effects devices

Hipster, flipster and finger-poppin' Daddy!

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