POCKET UNIVERSE PRODUCTIONS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Writer / Director / Producer
Job Titles:
- Writer / Director / Producer
Job Titles:
- Producer, Director, Writer ( AudioMarvels )
Lance Roger Axt is the co-founder of Pocket Universe Productions and it's AudioComics imprint, and has been an audio dramatist since 2003.
Originally the creator/Producing Director of the audio theatre production company Play it by Ear Productions, Lance produced several world-premiere radio one-acts for the award-winning anthology series "We Have Ignition," produced/co-directed a festival of original five-minute radio plays before a live audience in Albuquerque, and produced/directed a series of old-time radio re-creations on the Central Coast, "Those Thrilling Days of Yesteryear".
Lance is the former Vice President of the National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc., an organization dedicated to the education and promotion of contemporary audio theatre, and was a six-time attendee at the Festivals' Audio Theatre Workshop in Missouri, where he directed the world premiere of Knocking on Heaven's Door, written by comics legend JM DeMatteis (2011). He also produced the NATF's "Audio Art of Animation" workshop in Hollywood, and is one of the co-creators of the Norman Corwin Award for Excellence in Audio Theatre, the only award of its kind in America honoring life achievement in audio theatre/radio drama. He has also narrated over two-dozen audiobooks for Audible Studios and Audible ACX.
A classically-trained actor (MFA, Trinity Rep Conservatory in Rhode Island) who has performed off-Broadway and with regional theatre companies in New England, Lance is also a produced playwright (Chasing Dragons), and is shooting the film of his short screenplay Plunge in 2020. Short fiction published by 01 Publishing and Pro Se Press (forthcoming).
William Dufris is the co-founder of Pocket Universe Productions and it's AudioComics imprint, and has been an audio dramatist since the 1990's.
William Dufris began his audio career in London (radio plays, audio books, film/animation dubbing, language tapes), where he resided for 13 years. His credits include a number of BBC Radio plays sharing the mic with such names as Kathleen Turner and Helena Bonham-Carter, and working with legendary director Dirk Maggs on his audio drama productions including The Amazing Spider-Man (where he voiced the title role of Peter Parker), Voyage, and An American Werewolf in London. But he is best known as the original voice of Bob the Builder in the popular children's show Bob The Builder for the US and Canada (series 1-9).
He co-founded the audio production company The Story Circle, Ltd in the UK, which produced audio theatre programs for numerous publishers. Upon returning to the US, Dufris founded the audiobook production company Mind's Eye Productions, and was also a guest artist at the National Audio Theatre Festival's Workshops and HEAR Now Festivals.