Buckshot Dot Joins Lineup for NATF Audio Theater Workshop

PRLog (Press Release) – May 13, 2008 – The National Audio Theatre Festivals, Inc. (NATF) will host their 27th Annual Audio Theater Workshop in West Plains, MO, June 22-27, 2008. This unique week of audio arts training and hands-on participation is dedicated to all areas of audio production. Beginners to experts of all ages are welcomed for a week of learning, networking, and sharing. Returning to West Plains for the seventh consecutive year, the 2008 workshop will feature Shakespeare and Cowboy Poetry.

Live audiences will enjoy the fruits of the participants' experiences during a special performance Friday, June 27, in the Civic Center Theater. This performance will also be broadcast, webcast, and recorded.

Highlighting this summer's weeklong event will be participatory workshops in, among other areas, script writing, performing and voice, and the technical aspects of this art form.

About Buckshot Dot:
Female Cowboy Poet, Author/Artist, and self confessed Hysterical Relic Buckshot Dot (aka Dee Strickland Johnson) will not only perform Cowboy Poetry but will also teach workshops covering the history of the form, writing, and performing. A native of Arizona, Buckshot grew up on the Navajo and Hualapai reservations, and at the Petrified Forest. In addition to teaching in small schools in tiny Ozark communities and some of the largest inner city high schools in Arizona, Buckshot Dot has been featured at Cowboy Poets Gatherings and concerts in Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Nebraska, and Texas. She has appeared in concerts in Alabama, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, and British Columbia.

In addition to teaching and performing, Buckshot Dot has been named an Academy of Western Artists' Female Cowboy Poet of the year and a finalist for Video and Song of the Year. She has won the Will Rogers Medallion Award for both of her historical poetry books: Arizona Herstory: Tales from her Storied Past, and Arizona Woman Weird Wild and Wonderful.

For more information about Buckshot Dot, visit her website at http://www.buckshotdot.com/

More about the Audio Theater Workshop:
Joining NATF this year will also be Brother Blue, called by many the worlds’ greatest storyteller; Barbara Rosenblat, one of the most revered voice actors in the country; Folksinger/Poet Sue Harris; and Sam Mowry & Cynthia McGean of the Willamette Radio Workshop.

In addition to NATF's new guests, many favorite personalities will be returning to the festival to conduct workshops, share information, and work on the various productions. Returnees include Dwight Frizzell, music, NPR’s Renee Pringle, Technical Director, Janine Marr, Executive Producer, and Ellen Stewart, who will direct the production of NATF's Script Competition Winner.

Visit NATF's website regularly (http://www.natf.org/) as it will be updated as events and workshops are added and detailed.

The 2008 NATF Audio Theater Workshop is made possible, in part, by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts.