JUDITH WALCUTT
(360) 331-2813 :
fax (360) 331-6527 : oworld
@ whidbey.com
As
a writer and director of theatre, radio/spoken word and television, Judith has
received the American Bar Association’s
Silver Gavel, a Grammy nomination, a regional Emmy, a Major Armstrong Award,
and three Gold Medals from the N.Y. International Radio Festival, to name only
a few of her honors. She has worked
with such actors as Jason Robards, Steve Allen, Colleen Dewhurst, David Ogden
Stiers, Bonnie Bedelia, June Foray, Betty Garrett, James Earl Jones, Ed Asner,
Harry Anderson, and writers like Norman Corwin, Jon Krakauer and Robert
Fulghum. She has produced and directed
live broadcasts, dramatic works, books-on-tape, news features, production
workshops, child performers and voice-overs for commercials and other media
uses. Locally, Judith’s stage productions include “love is a place : an e. e. cummings cabaret,” “Radio
Noir,” “Whidbey Summer Radio Festival,” “Poetry
Bash,” and the recent “No Band Is An Island”
concert performance at the Whidbey Island Center for the Arts.
A
specialist in children’s
media, Judith’s productions include “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” in an all-star 4-CD set that won the 2002 Parents Choice
Award. She’s also penned a musical comedy for kids, “Frankenbean and the Monster Carrots,” sponsored by DelMonte and presented by the Los
Angeles Children’s Museum. It toured over 25
cities before a final run at the Smithsonian in Washington D. C. She was also part of the production team for
two nationally-acclaimed, award-winning children’s
radio series--”The Spider’s Web”
at WGBH/Boston and “East
of the Sun, West of the Moon,”
sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. In and for schools, Judith has developed
projects to write and publish poetry in the classroom, teach audio writing and
production skills and create teaching materials using audio narrative. She developed “The
Otherworld Balloon” to engage school children
in imagining and creating an audio fantasy; “The
Rainwater Basket” to teach Northwest Native
American culture; wrote “The
Dragon’s Comb,” a version of Wagner’s
Ring Cycle for The Academy of Media and Theatre Arts at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre.
Judith is CEO of Otherworld Media, a non-profit corporation
she founded in 1980, which has received funds from the N.E.A., the National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Pew Charitable Trusts, General Motors,
Citicorp, M&M Mars, and other foundations and corporations.