Speaker 1: Spring is here, and I am so happy to greet it.
Speaker 1: The farm seems to be happy to greet it too.
Speaker 1: There are daffodils popping up and poppies popping up in
Speaker 1: the now green fields. The plum trees have been in
Speaker 1: furling their tiny purple and white blossoms. The rest of
Speaker 1: the fruit trees have buds that are plumping out on
Speaker 1: their still bare branches. The goats have baby goats, the chickens,
Speaker 1: the EMUs are acting especially frisky. We have six emu
Speaker 1: eggs in the incubator right now. We've got bird songs
Speaker 1: that fill the air during the day. We've got frogs
Speaker 1: billions of frogs in the ponds filling the air at night.
Speaker 1: And hope, hope is filling my heart. This is my
Speaker 1: wish for you too, that your heart is full of faith, hope,
Speaker 1: and charity during this beautiful season of rebirth. I am
Speaker 1: so pleased to be sharing today's episode of Love Someone
Speaker 1: with you, and very excited for the conversation that is
Speaker 1: about to take place. You may or may not have
Speaker 1: heard the name of my guest before today, but I
Speaker 1: guarantee you won't forget it after this conversation. Cedaring Fox
Speaker 1: Isn't that a beautiful name? Cedaring Fox she is a
Speaker 1: trail blazing voice over artist. You've heard her as she
Speaker 1: announces major live televised award shows and events such as
Speaker 1: the Oscars, the People's Choice Awards, the Democratic National Convention,
Speaker 1: and numerous non broadcast events including the Producer's Guild Awards,
Speaker 1: the Luminaire Awards, the OSCAR Nominees Luncheon, the Governor's Awards
Speaker 1: for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and
Speaker 1: the glad GLAAD Awards. Cededaring Fox has voiced hundreds of
Speaker 1: national promotional spots for broadcast networks ABCNBCCBS Fox, and for
Speaker 1: international cable networks such as CNN, BBC, ESPN, and Lifetime.
Speaker 1: She has voiced award winning documentaries, countless national commercial campaigns,
Speaker 1: and is the female voice of numerous local affiliate stations.
Speaker 1: She regularly donates her voice to valued charitable organizations and
Speaker 1: is featured on the book Secrets of Voiceover Success, Top
Speaker 1: actors reveal how they did it. Her work as a
Speaker 1: voice over artists is fascinating, but I am especially interested
Speaker 1: in the amazing organization that she founded called Word Theater.
Speaker 1: Word Theater dot Org is the address. They operate in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, New York, and London since two thousand and three.
Speaker 1: Word Theater's mission is to connect people across the globe
Speaker 1: with compelling stories delivered through performances by well known actors
Speaker 1: from film, television, and theater. The stories reflect the colorful, complicated,
Speaker 1: and fascinating world that we live in and celebrate the
Speaker 1: power of language. We are going to chat with Cedaring.
Speaker 1: I got to find out about that name. I love
Speaker 1: that name, and learn about Word Theater and some of
Speaker 1: their upcoming events, and perhaps you would like to take
Speaker 1: part in that. But before all that, I'm going to
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Speaker 1: someone with Delilah Cedaring Fox. A lot of folks don't
Speaker 1: know your name, but they certainly if they have watched
Speaker 1: any awards ceremony, I know that voice. You're the voice
Speaker 1: of everything like you are. Your voice is so so
Speaker 1: connected with so many things in our society. But it's
Speaker 1: not a voice that is shouting over the crowd. You're
Speaker 1: just a voice that is strong and present. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for that, Delilah. I think that a big
Speaker 1: part of your success is your voice, because I think
Speaker 1: we have something in common where we're trying to just
Speaker 1: gather people and connect people with our work, and I
Speaker 1: do the same thing when I'm doing voice work. I'm
Speaker 1: trying to bring people to see what I'm seeing and
Speaker 1: feeling and thinking. And I think that you're so doing that,
Speaker 1: and it's very comforting, the sound of a warm, welcoming voice,
Speaker 1: don't you think, I hope. So that's my intent. So
Speaker 1: is ceaedaring the name that your parents gave you or
Speaker 1: is this a name you came upon? Well, my mother
Speaker 1: was born and raised way up north in Sweden, in
Speaker 1: thirty kilometers from the Arctic Circle, and they had and
Speaker 1: probably still have a tradition in Sweden where normally you
Speaker 1: would become the son or daughter of your father's first
Speaker 1: name and her son Andre's daughter. And my mother's father
Speaker 1: was Hilding, so she would have been Hilding's daughter. But
Speaker 1: there is this option, and there certainly wasn't the nineteen
Speaker 1: thirties when my grandfather Hilding married Elvi, where you could
Speaker 1: create your own last name and send it to the
Speaker 1: Swedish government and if no one has it, you get
Speaker 1: to claim it as your own. So what happened is
Speaker 1: my grandfather was a beautiful character who ended up owning
Speaker 1: thousands of acres in northern Sweden, and he was a
Speaker 1: nature lover. He knew every star, every tree, every flower,
Speaker 1: every berry, and they took the cedar tree and the
Speaker 1: circle as it was always described to me by my
Speaker 1: poet mother of archetypal wholeness, and they made a cedar
Speaker 1: ring say that ring? So yeah, wow, well you embody it. Well,
Speaker 1: thank you. This is only a long answer, I know,
Speaker 1: but I wanted the story, and that's what I do.
Speaker 1: I love stories. That's my whole life is telling stories
Speaker 1: and listening to stories. Well, we share a lot in
Speaker 1: common because my entire life is dedicated to stories. And
Speaker 1: we're currently creating a campus for educators and students. It's
Speaker 1: called the Word Theater Campus. So tell me about a
Speaker 1: Word Theater twenty year anniversary. So you're a storyteller. I
Speaker 1: mean that's what makes the world go round, bringing people
Speaker 1: together by sharing stories of what it means to be human.
Speaker 1: I think your mission and the mission of Word Theater
Speaker 1: is extremely similar. I found a diary recently where I
Speaker 1: was an actress. I trained as an actress from a
Speaker 1: very young age and a dancer, and I was in
Speaker 1: a class when I was twenty two years old. It
Speaker 1: was kind of a boot camp for actors to get
Speaker 1: everybody going, and we had to write down our life's
Speaker 1: objective and I thought, oh my god, you know, I
Speaker 1: love dancing, I love acting, I love directing. I love
Speaker 1: all these different things. What is my life subjective? And
Speaker 1: I wrote down to bring people together to share stories.
Speaker 1: And whether I'm doing a voiceover job or running word theater,
Speaker 1: where I gather the world greatest actors, wonderful human beings
Speaker 1: are attracted to doing my show. I get a great
Speaker 1: actor that I think is the perfect person to inhabit
Speaker 1: a particular short story, a beautifully written short story. I
Speaker 1: tend to work with some of the best living writers
Speaker 1: in the US and the UK. Very fortunate about that.
Speaker 1: But I cast an actor, I direct the actor, and
Speaker 1: I get the author into the room nine out of
Speaker 1: ten times to experience their story, been act of the story.
Speaker 1: And this sounds terrible, but I'm very proud to say
Speaker 1: that nine out of ten times the author bursts into
Speaker 1: is that the actor? They're so moved and it is.
Speaker 1: It's a very I can just describe it until you
Speaker 1: know the cows come home, But really people need to
Speaker 1: experience it. So tell us how they do that. How
Speaker 1: can somebody experience just what you just described? How can
Speaker 1: they be invited into that circle of stories? Yeah? I
Speaker 1: started doing these stories many many many years ago, and
Speaker 1: there there was a moment where I realized that I
Speaker 1: had to commit to this as my life's work, because
Speaker 1: the simplicity of an actor inhabiting a story and having
Speaker 1: it be so brilliant is one of the purest forms
Speaker 1: of theater. So I committed my life to this. I'd
Speaker 1: been doing it in different incarnations, in different shows, but
Speaker 1: twenty years ago I started Word Theater and we do
Speaker 1: live events. We do small events, we do big events.
Speaker 1: For example, Saturday, we are commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of
Speaker 1: the end of the war in Vietnam. And what I
Speaker 1: did was create an event that we had on March eighteenth, gathering.
Speaker 1: This extraordinary group of actors came in from all over,
Speaker 1: and I brought in some of the most important writers
Speaker 1: on Vietnam, Tim O'Brien who wrote the Things They Carried,
Speaker 1: Tobias Wolfe, who burst into the literary fame with This
Speaker 1: Boy's Life, which was made into a movie with Leonardo DiCaprio,
Speaker 1: Robert de Niro. He has a memoir of his time
Speaker 1: in Vietnam called Infaraoh's Army. So it was eleven different
Speaker 1: stories by veterans of the Vietnam War, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a dry eye in the house. Kathy Baker
Speaker 1: closed with a letter from a Vietnam mother to her
Speaker 1: son that she posted at the wall the Memorial in Washington,
Speaker 1: and this everybody got to walk a mile in the
Speaker 1: shoes of these veterans who had managed to create these
Speaker 1: unbelievably beautiful stories, not necessarily true stories, but authentic stories
Speaker 1: that came from their brilliant writing talents about an experience
Speaker 1: of war. And so that's one event, that's one themed
Speaker 1: event that I would create this summer. For example, we're
Speaker 1: doing a big beautiful in an outdoor amphitheater here in
Speaker 1: Los Angeles, an event about the history of jazz in
Speaker 1: the words of the artists. So we do big shows
Speaker 1: and then we do little shows, like on May sixth,
Speaker 1: I'll have three actors reading two stories by two wonderful
Speaker 1: women from their collections. Lisa Kopolo and Dana Johnson are
Speaker 1: the authors. So I'm always creating big shows, little shows,
Speaker 1: and the public is completely welcome to come. We do
Speaker 1: shows in Los Angeles, New York, and London. We also
Speaker 1: started we started to record video record these events, and
Speaker 1: we started to get really much more sophisticated about our
Speaker 1: videos in recent years. And so what we do is
Speaker 1: we will film an event like the event that we
Speaker 1: did for the veterans, and it will be posted any
Speaker 1: day now. And if you're a member of Word Theater,
Speaker 1: which helps sustain our nonprofit. We're a complete and total nonprofit.
Speaker 1: We visit schools in person. We're just always trying to
Speaker 1: do good things and bring people together. But you can
Speaker 1: as a member, an annual member, it's one hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars a year. You can access these videos in
Speaker 1: the members area at your leisure, so you will see
Speaker 1: beautifully filmed events. And we just did a benefit for
Speaker 1: Ukraine in London. It's living on the it's living on
Speaker 1: the website right now. And we have a weekly audio
Speaker 1: podcast where we share a free story each week. Amazing, amazing.
Speaker 1: I love the power of the spoken word. A lot
Speaker 1: of people don't realize that there are thousands of languages
Speaker 1: that don't have a written component, they only have spoken tradition.
Speaker 1: When you share a story, you're sharing wisdom. And he's
Speaker 1: so intuitive, Delilah, that's exactly right. I always I always
Speaker 1: felt like the traveling minstrels and the storytellers would go
Speaker 1: from town to town back in the day, it's the
Speaker 1: oral storytelling or st it would be the King and
Speaker 1: the people, and it did. Everybody was included. And I
Speaker 1: say word, theater is for everyone, everybody, plumber or the president.
Speaker 1: And when you hear someone step into these characters, they
Speaker 1: become alive in your head and you see your own movie.
Speaker 1: And that's what I love about listening and visualizing what
Speaker 1: it is and feeling because the writers are so good
Speaker 1: and they've written and rewritten, but by the time the
Speaker 1: actor says it, it sounds like he's just writing it
Speaker 1: in front of you, exactly telling the story. A good
Speaker 1: actor is writing it in front of you. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bringing to life words on a page is such a gift,
Speaker 1: such a talent. Absolutely, it's beautiful. So tell me about
Speaker 1: the going into schools. The people who are attracted toward
Speaker 1: theater are the most wonderful people because they remember that
Speaker 1: they had that one teacher who realized they had a
Speaker 1: spark and they had something, and they want to give back.
Speaker 1: They become successful. They might be winning Emmy's and Oscars,
Speaker 1: and they might be the busiest people in the world.
Speaker 1: But if you say JK. Simmons, I have a story
Speaker 1: for you. Will you come to Venice High School and
Speaker 1: perform it for the kids, And he'll say Tuesday, you know,
Speaker 1: can we do it on Tuesday? And so we have
Speaker 1: been taking for many years, almost since our inception, actors
Speaker 1: into schools and it could be one actor like JK.
Speaker 1: It was unbelievable. And we'll also film that. And now
Speaker 1: we're building a campus online where students can access many
Speaker 1: of these stories with curriculum. It will be available digitally
Speaker 1: in Seattle and in London. You know, but the going
Speaker 1: into the schools having that live performance, I will never
Speaker 1: stop doing that. It's such a joy. It's such a
Speaker 1: joy for the actors to participate. We also bring writers
Speaker 1: in and we're just here to make everybody realize that
Speaker 1: those books on a library shelf, they're written by people.
Speaker 1: The only difference between the writers who we focus on
Speaker 1: is that they've rewritten those stories and rewritten those stories,
Speaker 1: and they've shared them with people and gotten comments and feedbacks,
Speaker 1: and they work them until they're really exactly right and
Speaker 1: then they end up in a book. We have a
Speaker 1: little project in West Africa that I would love to
Speaker 1: talk to you about because I think you could help
Speaker 1: us take it to a whole different level, called the
Speaker 1: West African Wisdom Project, because all of West Africa is
Speaker 1: spoken tradition and there are no written components to most
Speaker 1: of the native languages. So for years, for decades, their
Speaker 1: history and their faith and their there everything, they have
Speaker 1: these wonderful little like proverbs. But each proverb has a
Speaker 1: whole story behind it. Yes, I love learning those things.
Speaker 1: So when you hear the proverb, you know it makes
Speaker 1: no sense at all. You know that turtle with a
Speaker 1: crack shell knows not to fly like that? What does
Speaker 1: that mean? But then when you hear the story behind
Speaker 1: the proverb, it's amazing and has all this like life
Speaker 1: lessons in it. So what we what we want to
Speaker 1: do is these take the stories, record them in the
Speaker 1: native language, translate them into other language, have local artists
Speaker 1: illustrate them, and then use them as a tool to
Speaker 1: help kids learn how to read, because the kids in
Speaker 1: West Africa do not read for pleasure, They only read
Speaker 1: for purpose. I absolutely love that idea, you know. I
Speaker 1: actually I grew up on Aesop's fables and Greek myths.
Speaker 1: My grandmother Lillian, who read read all those stories to me,
Speaker 1: and those have been passed down for thousands of years.
Speaker 1: That is, would anything I can do to help you, Delilah,
Speaker 1: please call me. You know, it's one of the important things.
Speaker 1: It was a late addition to the Honor in Their
Speaker 1: Words program that we did commemorating the end of the
Speaker 1: Vietnam War. I was driving along a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: before the live show and realize that we didn't have
Speaker 1: any Native Americans represented. And I started doing my research
Speaker 1: and did you you know that Native Americans were the
Speaker 1: number one largest demographic in Vietnam. Eighty two thousand Native
Speaker 1: Americans fought in Vietnam. And I found a poem that
Speaker 1: was so profound and I feel very, very lucky. I'd
Speaker 1: never worked with this actor before, but Zon mclarnan, who
Speaker 1: he was in Longmeyer Far Ago. He's starring in his
Speaker 1: own TV series right now. Beautiful Native American actor called
Speaker 1: his agent. He made himself available and came in and
Speaker 1: it was such a collaboration rehearsing with him because there
Speaker 1: were sounds and he said, you know, what do you
Speaker 1: think this sound is? I mean it was at a
Speaker 1: pow wow and he ended up calling I said, I said,
Speaker 1: I need to I need help from you to help
Speaker 1: me find this this sound. He called his friend who
Speaker 1: runs pow Wows, did her recording, sent me the recording.
Speaker 1: He you know, anybody who watches a show Atword Theater
Speaker 1: dot org. He just honoring these cultures. Delilah is so important.
Speaker 1: I don't feel that the show would have been the
Speaker 1: same if Zon hadn't been there doing that poem. If
Speaker 1: he moved me so profoundly, and to represent the men
Speaker 1: and women who have been part of the armed forces
Speaker 1: was really important. Internationally known voiceover artist Cedaring Fox is
Speaker 1: with us today sharing all sorts of fascinating information. We've
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Speaker 1: Brian Doyle, and Brian Doyle lived in Portland, Oregon and
Speaker 1: worked at the university. He was a newspaperman, a writer,
Speaker 1: ended up being a very prolific, very prolific writer. And
Speaker 1: I found one of his stories, which was really an essay,
Speaker 1: and it starts out the hummingbird's heart beats this many
Speaker 1: times a minute, and it goes on. It's three pages long,
Speaker 1: and it goes on to the heart of a blue whale, etc.
Speaker 1: And it is the most fascinating little piece and at
Speaker 1: the end you're in a flood of tears. And I
Speaker 1: had read this thing, I called him. I tracked him
Speaker 1: down in Oregon asked him for permission to have it
Speaker 1: read at a benefit in Easthampton, New York, and he
Speaker 1: said sure absolutely, and the actor Linus Roach and I
Speaker 1: were going, we just kept stopping going this guy, what
Speaker 1: is he channeling? What planet is? This is so beautiful.
Speaker 1: So I asked Brian, I said, thank you for permission
Speaker 1: to do the story. Can you tell me where it
Speaker 1: came from? And he said, oh, well, I have twin boys,
Speaker 1: and when they were born, one of them had a
Speaker 1: heart problem and had to have open heart surgery. And
Speaker 1: this was my way of dealing with this. This story
Speaker 1: is called joyous voladoras. Anyway, it just it stops traffic
Speaker 1: when you when you read this story out loud, I'll
Speaker 1: send you I'll send you a copy. So he ended up,
Speaker 1: you know, I ended up doing many of his stories,
Speaker 1: and then he started sending me stories. And now we've
Speaker 1: done shows with his stories and people just walk out
Speaker 1: of these shows. We're doing another show with his stories
Speaker 1: on June first. I was working with his stories for
Speaker 1: twelve years before I finally met him, and he came
Speaker 1: to Los Angeles in twenty sixteen with his wife and
Speaker 1: we had a three day you know, we had events
Speaker 1: and he had a book signing and things like that,
Speaker 1: and that's where J. K. Simmons is so in love
Speaker 1: with him. He'll be part of this show at at
Speaker 1: the Grammy Museum on June one, the Grammy Museum Theater
Speaker 1: at La Live. At the end, he just stood up
Speaker 1: and talked about stories. There's the power of stories. They
Speaker 1: are food for the soul. He went home and I
Speaker 1: got a call a month later that he had developed
Speaker 1: a glioblastoma and he died. And I told his wife,
Speaker 1: I am on a mission to get everybody in the
Speaker 1: world to hear these stories. You will be so moved
Speaker 1: when you hear. When I send you Joyce Voladorus this story,
Speaker 1: every story he written and their essays there at least
Speaker 1: two page things that make you look at the world
Speaker 1: completely differently. And you are all about heart stories. These
Speaker 1: are all open your heart stories he had, and they're
Speaker 1: so unpretentious. Tobias Wolf, who's a you know, he taught
Speaker 1: at Stamford for years. He's nurtured George Sanders and Adam
Speaker 1: Johnson and all these really great writers. I showed him
Speaker 1: Brian Doyle's book. It was one of his many books.
Speaker 1: It was published posthumously called One Long River of Song,
Speaker 1: and he just was in tears. He goes, You've made
Speaker 1: me cry. It's a Sunday morning. It's like I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here crying. Thank you for introducing me to this writer.
Speaker 1: I just want to say to everybody out there, Brian Doyle,
Speaker 1: One Long River of Song, go find this book and
Speaker 1: find all his books. But if anybody is anywhere near
Speaker 1: Los Angeles on June first, come see this show. We
Speaker 1: have a remarkable cast coming together and these are it
Speaker 1: also they're they're just so accessible and they're so human. Wow. Wow.
Speaker 1: So Wordtheater dot com or dot org. We're a dot org.
Speaker 1: We're a five O one C three nonprofit in the
Speaker 1: United States and we're on the cusp of getting our
Speaker 1: charitable status in the UK. This has just been such
Speaker 1: a pleasure of speaking with you, and I hope that
Speaker 1: your listeners will go check out our free Word Theater
Speaker 1: short story podcast. Yes indeed and join Word Theater. And
Speaker 1: if you're anywhere near any of your big events trying
Speaker 1: to get ticket little events or little events, yeah, these
Speaker 1: talents give their time, the amount of rehearsal that they do.
Speaker 1: They people work so hard and when they get off
Speaker 1: that stage, they feel proud and they know that they've
Speaker 1: touched people, They've reached people, They've done something that is
Speaker 1: not about commercial success. It's about giving, giving culture that
Speaker 1: we live in and receiving the love back, knowing that
Speaker 1: you've moved people and engendered empathy and compassion for you.
Speaker 1: All of the things I try to do are just
Speaker 1: that bring people together, just like what you're doing. So
Speaker 1: I just thank you so much for this opportunity. On
Speaker 1: June first, a new selection of stories by beloved Oregon
Speaker 1: author Brian Doyle brought to life by extraordinary actors including JK.
Speaker 1: Simmons and Moore at the Grammy Museum Theater, Los Angeles, California.
Speaker 1: Whether voicing a thirty second promo, announcing an award show live,
Speaker 1: or directing an actor to give voice to a finely
Speaker 1: crafted short story, Seating harnesses the power of language to
Speaker 1: clearly communicate every story. She is on a mission to
Speaker 1: bring people together in a celebration of our shared humanity,
Speaker 1: one word at a time. If you are interested in
Speaker 1: attending one of these amazing events, visit the Word Theater
Speaker 1: website at www dot Wordtheater dot org. You can learn
Speaker 1: so much about the organization there about the founder our
Speaker 1: guest today, seating, the amazing array of talent that support
Speaker 1: and participate in this, and importantly, how to get tickets
Speaker 1: to go to the shows. Being an Oregon girl, I
Speaker 1: would love to attend the Brian Doyle event in June.
Speaker 1: It would be a new experience for me. I live
Speaker 1: by the motto You're never too old to try a
Speaker 1: new experience. But it's also my granddaughter's birthday weekend, so
Speaker 1: that comes first. What is new for you these days?
Speaker 1: What are you trying? Have you taken up any new interests?
Speaker 1: Are you playing any new games? Have you got any
Speaker 1: new hobbies or activities? If you automatically said no, I
Speaker 1: hope you will consider doing so, trying something new, stepping
Speaker 1: out of your comfort zone. Our brains and bodies need
Speaker 1: to be poked into action every once in a while.
Speaker 1: And if you look to me for suggestions, I'm always
Speaker 1: going to recommend you grow something. It is springtime, it
Speaker 1: is time to garden. Gardening is a passion of mine,
Speaker 1: and I wish it would become a passion of everyone's
Speaker 1: because it's so healing, so nurturing, and so good for us.
Speaker 1: Plant at water at tend it, read a few dozen books,
Speaker 1: says the seeds are doing their thing, and then eat it,
Speaker 1: Enjoy it. No food ever tasted as good as that
Speaker 1: you've grown yourself, especially tomatoes. That's the advice I am
Speaker 1: leaving you with today. Couple that with the amazing conversation
Speaker 1: we just had with cedaring, and once again I suggest
Speaker 1: you check out word theater dot org and finally take
Speaker 1: some time out of your spring schedule to slow down
Speaker 1: and love someone. M