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Introduced at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio”, #1 New York Times Bestselling Audio Producer Dirk Maggs\u00a0has won national and international awards for his groundbreaking work in spoken word audio for over thirty years, \u00a0including in the UK, APA awards, Sony Awards and Talkie Awards, and in the USA, Audiofile Golden Earphones Awards, \u00a0Audie Awards, \u00a0a Mark Time Lifetime Achievement Award and a New York Festivals Gold Medal.<\/p>\n

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Dirk was among the first ever nominees for the Directors Guild Award for Outstanding Achievement in the\u00a0field of audio theater.<\/p>\n

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Dirk’s\u00a0BBC Career included postings\u00a0as a producer in BBC Television and a Senior Producer in BBC Radio Light Entertainment. He is now freelance, working\u00a0\u00a0across live and recorded media to tell stories\u00a0with\u00a0 structure and clarity – in\u00a0a uniquely detailed, layered way.<\/p>\n

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Dirk introduced Dolby Surround\u2122 to BBC Radio Drama in the 1990s, and is now creating immersive stories in Dolby Atmos\u2122\ufe0e for Audible Studios.<\/p>\n

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Dirk’s three epic productions of THE SANDMAN for Audible with NEIL GAIMAN\u00a0have garnered\u00a0their biggest ever sales figures around the world and all three Acts have become New York Times Bestsellers.<\/p>\n

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In 2017 Dirk directed THE X-FILES for Audible, starring David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson.<\/p>\n

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Dirk\u00a0has explored the ALIEN\u00a0universe in a series of audio epics which began in 2016 with the Audible Studios production of ALIEN: OUT OF THE SHADOWS, a\u00a0bestseller in both the USA and UK, which\u00a0won an AUDIE Award (see Awards page).<\/p>\n

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From 2012-2017\u00a0Dirk adapted and co-directed \u00a0BBC Radio 4’s most prestigious Christmas productions, featuring the works of NEIL GAIMAN.<\/p>\n

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In 2017 he dramatised\u00a0and co-directed Neil Gaiman’s ANANSI BOYS.<\/p>\n

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In 2016 he dramatised\u00a0and co-directed Neil Gaiman’s STARDUST.<\/p>\n

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In 2014 Dirk\u00a0dramatised Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett’s\u00a0Good Omens<\/em>, starring Mark Heap, Peter Serafinowicz, Louise Brealey, Phil Davis, Josie Lawrence and Colin Morgan. It has become\u00a0a worldwide audiobooks best seller.<\/p>\n

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In 2013\u00a0record audiences listened to\u00a0Dirk’s \u00a0dramatisation of Neil Gaiman’s Neverwhere<\/em> in 2013\u00a0for BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra with an all-star cast including James McAvoy,\u00a0Benedict Cumberbatch, \u00a0and Natalie Dormer.<\/p>\n

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Among previous milestones, Dirk was responsible for writing and directing the hugely successful 2003-5 radio renaissance of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy<\/em> – its author Douglas Adams having asked him to produce three radio series based on the last three novels in the ‘trilogy of five’, concluding the saga in its original medium.<\/p>\n

\"IMG_1713\"<\/a>In 2012 Dirk adapted the entire five-novel Hitchhiker\u2019s epic into a stage show featuring the original cast, \u00a0delighting many thousands of UK theatregoers.<\/p>\n

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Dirk’s\u00a0animation work includes voice directing Bob The Builder<\/em> and The Animated Mr Bean<\/em> for television and, in film animation. The Magic Roundabout Movie<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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For BBC Radio in the 1990s, Dirk created award-winning epic ‘audio movies’ featuring Superman<\/em>, Batman<\/em>, Spider-Man<\/em> and Judge Dredd<\/em>. Working closely with the creatives at both DC Comics in New York and Marvel Comics, Dirk brought cinematic sound techniques\u00a0to BBC Radio Drama, including the use of Dolby Pro-Logic Surround and Dolby Digital Sound.<\/p>\n

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In\u00a0Video Games Dirk has voice directed Revolution Software’s Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon<\/em> and Broken Sword: The Angel Of Death<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Dirk has directed many leading\u00a0artists, including \u00a0Christopher Lee, Leslie Nielsen, Christian Slater, Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie, Stephen Fry, Joanna Lumley, Jonathan Pryce, Juliet Stevenson, Jim Broadbent, Miriam Margolyes, Johnny Vegas, Ricky Tomlinson, Harry Enfield, Alison Steadman,\u00a0James McAvoy, Benedict Cumberbatch, and Spike Milligan.<\/p>\n

Dirk has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the University of Winchester for his work in the dramatic arts and is a Guest Lecturer at the Universities of Westminster, Bournemouth and Winchester.<\/p>\n

In the USA Dirk has also actively\u00a0supported\u00a0creative Native American projects with\u00a0Native Voices at the Autry Center in Los Angeles, California, and Native American Public Television in Lincoln, Nebraska.<\/p>\n

In his spare time, Dirk plays drums for\u00a0The Riotous Brothers<\/a><\/em>\u00a0on the UK Blues Circuit.<\/p>\n

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Introduced at the 2017 San Diego Comic Con as “the Steven Spielberg of Audio”, #1 New York Times Bestselling Audio Producer Dirk Maggs\u00a0has won national and international awards for his groundbreaking work in spoken word audio for over thirty years, \u00a0including in the UK, APA awards, Sony Awards and Talkie Awards, and in the USA, … Continue reading A Brief Resum\u00e9<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-174","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":513,"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/174\/revisions\/513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dirkmaggs.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}