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Sign up todayDebs In Canton - Abridged
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On June 16, 1918, America’s leading voice of conscience, Eugene Victor Debs, stepped onto a stage in Canton, Ohio, and gave a soul-stirring speech against American intervention in WWI. He did so knowing the cost would be severe: Debs was charged with violating the Espionage Act of 1917 and sentenced to ten years in a federal penitentiary for sedition. The sixty-three-year-old cofounder of the Socialist Party of America ran for president from his jail cell in 1920. He received nearly a million votes.
Debs was an architect of FDR’s New Deal policy that saved the American working class and gave the middle class a chance to build a better and more just life. Today, he is known as being a personal hero to contemporary political thinkers like Bernie Sanders. To those who knew him as “The Man From Terre Haute,” Debs was a simple man, an extraordinary writer and orator, and an energetic believer in the best of humanity and the promise of this great nation.
Debs’s unwavering social conscience and his deeply held Christian faith created the foundation of his political philosophy. But it has never been easy for any man to risk everything—from his possessions, his family, his freedom, or his health—to do what he knows is right. Debs’s crisis is dramatized in Debs In Canton, a new work of audio fiction from SueMedia Productions and MidSummer Sound Company that looks at what his life might have been like in the months leading up to this seminal moment in American history.
Elizabeth Schwartz and Yale Strom are the co-writers of The Witches of Lublin, as well as the filmmakers of American Socialist: The Life & Times of Eugene Victor Debs. (www.firstrunfeatures.com)
Phil Proctor is an original member of the three-time Grammy-nominated Firesign Theatre. He has performed on stage and television and in such movies as Rugrats; Finding Nemo; Monsters, Inc.; and the Dr. Doolittle films.
P. J. Ochlan, an Audie Award-nominated and multiple AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, has recorded close to 200 audiobooks. His acting career spans more than thirty years and has included Broadway, the New York Shakespeare Festival (under Joseph Papp), critically acclaimed feature films, and regular roles in television series. Along the way, he's worked with countless icons, including Jodie Foster, Clint Eastwood, Robin Williams, Al Pacino, and Garry Marshall.
L. J. Ganser is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award. He has recorded over six hundred titles, ranging from preschool books to crime noir thrillers to Arctic Circle high school basketball stories.
Robert Fass is a veteran actor and twice winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration. He has earned mulltiple Earphones Awards, including one for his narration of Francisco Goldman’s Say Her Name, which was named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Audiobooks of 2011. He has given voice to modern and classic fiction writers alike, including Ray Bradbury, Joyce Carol Oates, Isaac Asimov, Jeffrey Deaver, and John Steinbeck, as well as to nonfiction works in history, memoir, health, journalism, and business.
Anne Bobby is an actress who has narrated several works, including books in the Katie Kazoo series and the Harriet the Spy series.
Reviews
“A truly brilliant production! Phil’s performance was perfect…[and] everybody in the cast was just wonderful. Superb work, and the writing was so right for the people and the subjects.”
“This well-produced radio drama—complete with the ambient sounds of trains, tavern chatter, and the clink of a cell door, as well as tunefully performed rounds of song—contextualizes the personal and political time…Phil Proctor, as Debs, sounds appropriately gruff and gentle, by turns. The supporting cast…are equally compelling and engaging.”
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