Foley Special Guest Ele Matelan
Ele (She/Her/Hers) is probably most recognizable to audiences as WildClaw Theatre’s resident Foley artist. She has designed, choreographed, and performed Foley for their annual Deathscribe horror radio festival since 2011, as well as for companies including Hartlife NFP, Lifeline Theatre, Oak Park Festival Theatre, Columbia College Chicago, Otherworld Theatre, Starlight Radio Dreams, Festival 56, Stone Hearth Theatre, MCL, Columbia College, Prop Thtr, and The Second City Training Center. She has performed with WildClaw's Best of Deathscribe at the Arsht Arts Center in Miami, The Hear Now Audio Arts Festival in Kansas City, and has opened for horror podcast darling The No Sleep Podcast on tour. Ele is also a company member with The House Theatre of Chicago, and her native-Dallas’s Mr. Toad’s Theatre Circle. When she's not making things go BUMP in the night with WildClaw, she performs as Foley artist for Locked Into Vacancy Entertainment's serialized comedy podcasts recorded monthly in front of a live audience at Stage 773. You can hear Ele’s voiceover performances as Cassie Wilkins, Switchblades Cobalt, and more(!) in Hartlife NFP's award-winning, post-apocalyptic audio drama Our Fair City, and as part of the ensemble in their upcoming series Unwell; AND as a member of the ensemble in Toxic Bag's upcoming audio drama “Tales of Richard: Post-Apocalyptic Cabinet Maker."
Ele will work her magic next with Locked Into Vacancy Entertainment. (tickets for the show here) http://www.lockedintovacancy.com/
Foley Special Guest Joe Griffin
Joe Griffin’s work as a recording engineer and sound designer over the past 25 years encompasses a wide variety of media, including theatre, film, music, corporate communications and advertising.
In the world of indie film, Joe wears a number of hats, notably dialog editor, sound designer,ADR/Foley recordist and re-recording mixer. His filmography includes Nebula Creatives’ shortfilm Out of Sight, which was screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival; Hot DiggityProductions’ feature Scary Normal; Sigsaly Entertainment and Conjecture Media’s feature Market Value; and JAMS Productions’ short MOOSE, featuring Samuel L. Jackson.
Theatrical sound design work in Chicago includes You Think It’s Easy Being the Tooth Fairy? with Lifeline Theatre; Dracula with The Hypocrites; Coronado and Otherwise Engaged with Steep Theatre Company; three years as designer/composer for A Klingon Christmas Carol with Commedia Beauregard; and four years as music director for Deathscribe, Wildclaw Theatre’s short horror plays festival. Other theatre work includes After Ashley, Angels in America, Machinal and ten seasons of summer Shakespeare at Moraine Valley Community College in Palos Hills, IL, and These Shining Lives, Richard III, Harvest and Macbeth at Oakton Community College in Glenview, IL. Animation sound work includes the award-winning “Hemingway in 15 Seconds” series for the Ernest Hemingway Foundation, and the award-wining “Getting to Know” educational series which features artists such as Andy Warhol, Rembrandt, da Vinci, and Van Gogh, as well as U.S. Presidents Washington, Adams, Jefferson and Lincoln.
Joe’s advertising experience is extensive. Since 1992 he has worked on radio, TV and online advertisements for national and international brands such as Dove, Sears, Suave, Allstate, American Family Insurance, BP, 7-Eleven, Miller Lite and the Chicago Blackhawks.
In 1996, Joe and business partner Steve Baldwin pioneered the field of sound effects specifically designed for use in tabletop roleplaying. Their Game Masters Collection effects continue to define the state of the art for purpose-built tabletop RPG sound. Joe has recently launched his own series of high-resolution sound effects libraries aimed at audio production professionals.
A graduate of Michigan State University and alumnus of Columbia College Chicago, Joe also served on the Professional Advisory Committee at the Illinois Institute of Art for five years.
For work samples and expanded projects list: https://griffinsounddesign.wordpress.com/
Joe is currently working on sound design for “The Time Warp Trio” at Lifeline theatre in Chicago; the first season of the audio drama “Tales of Richard: Post-Apocalyptic Cabinet Maker;” Glass City Media’s short film “Limerence;” and an album of soundtrack music for the Warhammer 40k role-playing game.
