About Fred

“No ideas but in things.” – William Carlos Williams

Synopsis:

Guy who likes telling stories who’s following his dream.

Worked up from the realm of podcasting to the front of the Wall Street Journal and gigs with the BBC. Doesn’t think he’s joking when he talks about a Radio Drama Revival.

Bio, the long story:

Fred Greenhalgh has been writing stories since his childhood in downeast Maine. His determination to leave his home town got him as far as the University of Southern Maine, and two years later he took a university-sponsored exchange to the University of New Orleans.

As he studied film in New Orleans he became entranced with the vibrant, melancholy, and exuberant local culture. Living in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, he completed an independent project on the street culture of New Orleans.

After Hurricane Katrina, Fred returned to Maine feeling like he still had a lot to say about his adopted and beloved city. These ideas coalesced into his first radio drama (and senior thesis), Day of the Dead. Day of the Dead was released in May 2006, the same month Fred graduated USM with a BA in Media Studies with University Honors.

Having found his calling in radio drama, Fred continues to produce his own short stories and those of other fine writers as FinalRune Productions (see Why FinalRune? if you want the story on the name). He now applies on-location recording principles similar to what he learned in film school to audio drama.

Fred’s pursuits to master the craft have brought him to the National Audio Theatre Festivals‘ week-long workshop in 2007, and then in 2009 to Ireland to visit his friend and mentor Roger Gregg. He has studied audio engineering with Dave Moulton at the University of Maine Augusta and taught sound design and radio drama at his alma mater, the University of Southern Maine.

With the publication of a front-page Wall Street Journal Article on February 25, 2010, FinalRune’s work has been catapulted into the national spotlight. His current major endeavor is writing, funding and producing his original speculative fiction serial, The Cleansed.

Outside of his work with FinalRune, Fred is the online marketing manager at Maine solar power installer ReVision Energy. He lives on an off-grid homestead in rural Maine.

Audio Credits

• 2011
  Writer/Director/Producer: The Cleansed: Season 1
• 2010
  Writer/Director/Producer – The Cleansed: Pilot, The Troll of Stony Brook, Joe Gunther Audio Pilot
  Director – Live Radio Drama and Bean Supper, USM Theater Dept. Radio Drama Collaboration
  Sound Designer – Severed Threads for BBC Radio 4
• 2009
  Writer/Director/Producer – Begathon Shorts
  Director/Producer – Mad Horse OTR Project, Live Halloween Radio Show
• 2008
  Writer/Director/Producer – Waiting for a Window
• 2007
  Writer/Director/Producer – Fall of the Hero, Begathon Special
  Director/Producer – Tales from Williamsville
• 2006
  Writer/Director/Producer – Day of the Dead, The Blind Man’s Confession

Awards

2010 Golden Mini Disc Award – Best Writing – The War on Poverty
• 2008 Gold Ogle Award for Best Fantasy Audio Drama – Waiting for a Window

Writing

• Hope Springs Eternal
• This is Not About the Apocalypse
• I’m not religious, but
• Some Road through the Desert
• Song of a Cajun
• Day of the Dead – The Fiction Story (Part 2 of 2)
• Day of the Dead – The Fiction Story (Part 1 of 2)

Poems

• I’m not religious, but
• Song of a Cajun