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Sue Zizza

Producer and Director

Sue Zizza is the owner of SueMedia Productions, a full service audio production company. She is an audio producer, director, writer, and sound designer.

When she’s not producing and directing, Sue specializes in manual SFX (Foley) effects for audio productions, film, television and the stage.  Sue also teaches audio arts and sound production at New York University’s Kanbar Institute for Film and Television at the Tisch School of the Arts.

David Shinn

Studio Manager and Engineer

David Shinn, of SueMedia Productions, is a sound designer/engineer and foley (SFX) artist for stage and studio productions. His most recent project, "The Witches of Lubin" produced an Earphone Award winning audioplay as well as the music CD "The Devil's Brides" which is being distributed by the international music distributor ARC. In 2011 he was an Audie Finalist for "William's Leap for Freedom" which he recorded on location, edited, mixed and mastered. In 2010 he was an Audie Finalist for "The Longest Night: A Personal History of Pan Am 103" which he also co-produced.

David also specializes in Studio Design and Audio Recording, Multi-track Mixing, and Editing as well as studio design and build-out. David also received an AudioFile Earphone Award for the “Edges” narrated by Tovah Feldshuh in 2008. From 1998 until 2006 he co-produced the nationally syndicated Radio Works series that was heard on more than 70 stations coast-to-coast.

Project List:

The Witches of Lublin - An audio drama by Ellen Kushner, Elizabeth Schwartz, and Yale Strom. With music by Yale Strom. Directed and produced by Sue Zizza. The Witches of Lublin is based on the true and little known history of klezmer musicians in Eastern Europe. Co-writer Yale Strom’s research uncovered the facts that there were women klezmer musicians and that when klezmers would play for gentile nobility, their reward could sometimes be beatings, death, or even kidnappings. This history formed the springboard for this work of fiction by Strom, Schwartz and Kushner based on Jewish women's lives in 18th Century Europe, klezmer music and feminist history, with a healthy dose of magical realism thrown in.

With performances by: Tovah Fledshuh, Simon Jones, Barbara Rosenblat, Elizabeth Boskey, Joanne Borts, Yelena Shmulenson, Joyce Feurring, Time Jerome and Neil Gaiman. For more information regarding The Witches of Lublin please visit our website by clicking the image above!

Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac - An audio play, recorded in part at Gunther's Tap Room, one of the celebrated author's favorite Long Island drinking spots, was created in conjunction with the many celebrations around the 50th anniversary of the publishing of On The Road and was adapted by Zizza and playwright Patrick Fenton from an earlier Fenton-penned stage production, Kerouac's Last Call. Fenton's stories and articles have appeared in numerous publications including the New York Times, New York Newsday, and the Daily News. It wasn't until Fenton's newspaper articles, and his aforementioned play, that fans and scholars learned about this important turning point in Kerouac's life.

With performances by: Drew Keil, Sue Anne Dennehy, Sonya Tannenbaum, Ed Dennehy and Jack O'Connell. For more information regarding Jack's Last Call please visit our website by clicking the image above!

William's Leap for Freedom - An audio play produced by SueMedia Productions, in conjunction with the National Audio Theatre Festivals, (NATF) is offering "William’s Leap for Freedom" for Stations to broadcast during Black History Month 2011. Hosted by Dion Graham, this one hour audio drama is available through the PRX to stations for free. Based on the life of freed slave William Wells Brown, this performance was recorded live at the June 2010 NATF workshop in West Plains, Missouri and stars Mirron E. Willis as Wells Brown with narrator Dion Graham and features Barbara Rosenblat along with a multi-voice cast. William’s Leap for Freedom is a two part drama; a play within a play. Beginning with a fictionalized conversation between William Wells Brown and Mr. Polite, this audio drama then introduces part two of the play featuring selected portions of The Escape or Leap for Freedom, as it relates to the tale of three slaves, Cato, Glen and Melinda. Brown often stated that this play specifically was autobiographical. The couple, Glen and Melinda, did exist, while Cato is Brown himself. This production, directed by Renee Pringle, with assistance from mentor Sue Zizza was post produced by SueMedia Production’s David Shinn.

For more information regarding William's Leap for Freedom please visit our website by clicking the image above!

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