DAVID FARQUHAR
Producer/Engineer/Sound Design

BIOGRAPHY

DESIGN SOUND PRODUCTIONS
301- 45 Trillium Village
Chatham, ON N7L 4A2
Phone: (519) 351-3824
E-mail: dspaudio@kent.net

David Farquhar is the Executive Producer of Design Sound Productions an independent audio production and sound design company and the recently created audio theatre performance and production company Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre. He has worked with noted actors, writers and directors from New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Toronto, Windsor, Huntsville and Chatham. Not only have his radio programs been broadcast on both public and commercial radio stations, they have also been released on CD and cassette.

WAR OF THE WORLDS – Fall 2007
Executive Producer/Sound Design along with
George Zarr, Award Winning Writer/Director/Composer/Producer - Manhattan, NY This Classic Radio Drama was produced for CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM for their 80th Anniversary celebration and was broadcast on Halloween Night 2007.

AUDIO THEATRE PRODUCTION AND PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP
Workshop Leader/Executive Producer – Fall 2006
The Voices in the Wind Audio Theatre Production and Performance Workshop was held on October 6th, 7th and 8th 2006 in the Kiwanis Theatre at the Chatham Cultural Centre. The Workshop was produced in association with the Chatham Capitol Theatre Association and was sponsored in part by the Ontario Arts Council and The National Audio Theatre Festivals, (New York). This three-day intensive hands-on Workshop introduced the participants (Secondary School level drama students) to the attributes unique to audio drama writing, acting, directing and the production elements that make up a live audio theatre show. The students were involved in all aspects of audio theatre production from concept to performance.

SCHOOL SPIRIT - Spring 2005
Executive Producer/Background Ambiences along with
George Zarr, Award Winning Writer/Director/Composer/Producer - Manhattan, NY An original and innovative audio theatre performance taped before a live audience for later Halloween broadcast on CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM and CHRW 94.9 FM London.

EVERY NOW AND THEN - Winter 2004
Co-Producer/Engineer/Sound Design along with
George Zarr, Award Winning Writer/Director/Composer/Producer - Manhattan, NY An original radio drama of Suspense produced for broadcast on the New York based radio series The Radio Works and its 70 member stations across the USA and CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM.

THE VORTEX - A Cliff Weller Mystery - Winter 2001
Executive Producer/Sound Design along with
Erin Connelly, Writer/Director - Los Angeles, CA
An original Sci-Fi Mystery radio drama produced for broadcast on the New York based radio series The Radio Works.

DARK ROAD TO NOWHERE - Originally released 1998
Executive Producer/Engineer/Sound Design along with
Joey Ouellette, Writer/Director – Windsor, ON
Re-mixed and mastered for Halloween 2003
An original Halloween radio drama produced for broadcast on CBC Radio One, CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM and the Minnesota based National Public Radio program Sound Effects.

THE UNEXPLAINED FILES - Summer 1999
Producer/Writer/Engineer - A weekly radio program that explored the Strange, Bizarre and Mysterious. Seventeen segments aired on CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM.

THE MYSTERY OF THE HEXAHEDRON (In the Six Fingered Hand) 1996
Producer/Engineer/Sound Design along with Alan Tyler, Writer/Director/Producer - Mountain View, CA. An original full cast Sci-Fi audio drama produced for the audio spoken word market and distributed by National Public Radio’s WIRELESS Audio Collection Catalog. The program was also broadcast on selected Campus and Community FM radio stations across Canada.

NEWS FEATURES AND INTERVIEWS: CKCO TV News, CKCO TV Sunday AM, CFPL TV News, CFPL TV Behind The News, The A Channel News Windsor, CFCO AM 630 / 92.9 FM, CKSY 94.3 FM, CBC Radio One, CHRW 94.9 London, London Free Press, Windsor Star, Chatham Daily News, Chatham This Week, Wallaceburg Courier Press, Wallaceburg News and National Audio Theatre News – The Journal of New Audio Theatre.

MEMBERSHIPS: National Audio Theatre Festivals - Executive Offices, New York

WORKSHOPS: In Radio, Television, Theatre and Film production.

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