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Meet the Third Coast Festival staff, shown here at the 2008 TCF Awards Ceremony - equal parts exhausted and happy.
(Left to right: Gwen Macsai, Julie Shapiro, Johanna Zorn, Delaney Hall)
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Third Coast Festival Executive Director Johanna Zorn is the founding
mother of the Festival and she enjoys working with
the entire TCF crew on every aspect of this project. Additionally, Zorn takes the lead
when it comes to budgeting, fundraising and public relations. Zorn has worked
at Chicago Public Radio for more than two decades, including ten years as the
Executive Producer of Chicago Public Radio's acclaimed documentary series
Chicago Matters. She continues to contribute to the series as both an editor
and a reporter. In her spare time she’s raising three children.
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Third Coast Festival Artistic Director Julie Shapiro has been with the
Festival since its inaugural year (2000). She works on every
aspect of the Festival and manages a great deal of the artistic and logistical
details of the project. Before moving to Chicago, Shapiro worked at the Center
for Documentary Studies at Duke University. She was assistant director of Transmissions, an annual experimental sound and
art festival from 1998-2001. These days Shapiro makes audio art for public presentation, teaches here and there, and can occasionally be heard on the public radio airwaves.
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| Gwen Macsai is host of Re:sound, the Third Coast Festival’s weekly program on Chicago Public Radio. An award-winning writer, producer and humorist, Macsai’s radio work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday. She's also the creator of the television sitcom What About Joan starring Joan Cusack, and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person essays. |
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| Third Coast Festival Producer Delaney Hall joined the TCF as an intern in June 2006. She now produces Re:sound, hosts our podcasts, and develops features for the website. Hall also helped launch the Sounding Point Radio Workshop at Street Level Youth Media and works on radio projects of her own. Before moving to Chicago, she lived in Austin, Texas, where she went to school, wrote for various newspapers, worked in a rare books library, and generally enjoyed the lone star state. |
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We're also supported by friends near and far:
Chicago Public Radio Station Manager Torey Malatia provides vital input and support; thanks to former staffers Roman Mars, Paul Flahive, Lauren Dee and Katia
Dunn for all their hard work; we owe a huge debt of gratitude to former
web-managers Marck Bailey and Elizabeth Meister. Our informal
advisors (too many to list here) are invaluable with their suggestions and direction.
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