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It’s official, I’m a panelist at GDC this year, the bio says so😉 So far listed as moderating this year’s “G.A.N.G. Demo Derby: Sound Design” event. One more audio panel I am excited to be a part of is still yet to be publicly announced, stay tuned! Times like these I think there should be a ‪#‎gameaudio‬ conference bingo game! Gotta catch ’em all!

Water Bears was one of the most adorable games I had the pleasure of working on last year at Schell Games. Now, you can hear me gurgling as a pile of tardigrades in high pitch noises in your ear in VR on the HTC Vive!!! The future is now, microscopic yet big as life, and adorable:) Featuring a new and tropical spin on the original sound and music score by Tim Rosko! ‪ Watch the WaterBears VR trailer here! You can get it on Steam here!

The folks at Musician’s Friend/Guitar Center have an industry blog called “The Hub” and I was excited to be interviewed as part of a lineup of video game soundtrack composers alongside associates John Robert Matz and Sean Beeson in Part 2 and Dren Mcdonald, Kyle ‘Kole’ Hicks, Tom Salta and Jeremy Lim in Part 1. Feel honored to know many of these folks personally and can vouch for their awesomeness:) ‪
Note: Contrary to what is printed, I do not ‘present awards at events such as’ I have judged game awards and presented as a panelist or speaker at those events. Looks like they lost a couple words when editing down the article. Either way, happy to be mentioned!

My Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera collaborator Liz Rishel and I have been asked to channel our theatrical zombie knowledge to judge a costume contest at a potluck fundraiser for the “Beautiful Cadaver Project Pittsburgh” on Saturday January 30th. We are excited to have been asked to participate in this fun and spooky theatrical event! If you’re looking for a bloody good time, food, entertainment, and an excuse to throw on a costume, check out this event!
“This project is the recipient of an Arts MODE fellowship from The Zombie Opera’s own fiscal sponsor, New Sun Rising.”
– Event Facebook Page with Info
– Zombie Opera News Posting about the Event

I hope you all enjoy this video update from Super Smash Opera regarding our plans for the “Orchestra Edition” of our show to at MAGFest 2016 (Application Pending!) Super bonus thanks to my brother Brian for helping with the filming and lighting my Christmas tree so well;)

I’m delighted to be singing with the Renaissance City Choir this month in two holiday performances with the Edgewood Symphony Orchestra; Saturday the 5th at the Edgewood Symphony holiday concert “Comfort & Joy” with conductor Walter Morales, featuring the RCC, and on Saturday December 12th at the Renaissance City Choir 30th Anniversary Holiday Concert with conductor Jeffry Johnson where we are joined again by the Edgewood Symphony and guest conductors from the last thirty years of RCC!

I was interviewed by Richard Savery for this month’s G.A.N.G., Game Audio Network Guild, newsletter. Behold my attempt to describe what I do for a living, how crafting an opera in zombies helped lead to my current role at Schell Games, plus some tips on how to make a good impression when applying for a job in ‪#‎gameaudio‬ …derp…beep…boop…gah, words are hard!!! Interview with Bonnie Bogovich

Behold, the internet premiere of the first music video for Steam – or – The Specters of the Knox Mill aka Steam the Opera’s song “The Pitch”, formerly heard performed live at our Evenings in Quarantine: The Zombie Opera 5 Year Anniversary event and this weekend at the Steampunk Ball & Fashion Cotillion. Great job to all taking part in this great soon-to-be-internet-musical-series especially the main band and project heads Liz Rishel, William Strom, Sean Lenhart, Jordan Speranzo and Edwin Huang! I had a fun time cameo’ing in this video, as one of the members of ‘The Board”, and look forward to popping into future musical webisodes:)

So much globetrotting in the last couple days, I’m a bit tuckered but had a blast being a panelist at Audio Engineering Society Convention in NYC, helping out with the The Game Audio Institute ‘Intensive’ workshop and being a ‘Speed Mentoring” mentor at GameSoundCon in Los Angeles. So many amazing people and presentations, all the feels, all the beeps and boops! I do wish all of you who traveled as well safe travels and a hopefully relaxing remain of the week:)

Excited to announce that I have accepted the role of  “Vampire Bride” a split role of “Donna Elvira”, in Undercroft Opera’s upcoming production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni”.  The opera will be in english AND set to a vampire theme based on Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Save the date: May 27-30, 2016!