Pendant Productions

Pendant Productions, (also known as Pendant Audio, or just Pendant) is an independent online production company that produces audio serials and radio dramas for podcast, digital download, and radio broadcast.
Pendant is considered part of the growing online revival of audio drama and audio theater. The company regularly holds open auditions for their shows, as well as director classes to train those interested in directing audio drama.
Nearly 1 million mp3s were downloaded from pendantaudio.com in 2007.
== History ==
Pendant Productions was created by Jeffrey Bridges, who serves as executive producer on all shows.
The internet based audio theater company got its start producing fan shows based on Star Trek, DC Comics, and Star Wars, among others. On May 29, 2012, Pendant ceased all production on fan shows, turning their focus to original programming.
Pendant's original shows include the Parsec Award winning anthology series Seminar and the long running science fiction crime drama The Kingery.
In August 2014, Valiant Comics partnered with Pendant to produce audio dramas based on their comic books. The first of these, Archer & Armstrong: The Michelangelo Code, was released in 2016.
==Podcast Productions==
To date, Pendant has produced thirteen original podcast shows from a wide array of genres.
Title 	Years 	Notes
The Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion Adventure Theater	2006–2010 	
The Kingery 	2007–Present	
Once Upon a Time in Vegas 	2007–2010 	
Seminar 	2007–Present	
The Pendant Shakespeare aka The Wild Bill Variety Show 	2007–Present	
Genesis Avalon 	2009–2014 	
Red Sands Investigations 	2009–2010 	Mini-series
The Line 	2010–2012 	
Tabula Rasa 	2012–Present	
This Week In Pendant 	2012–Present	
Henderson & Havner 	2013–Present	
Quick Audio 	2015–2016 	
Active Radioactive Radio 	2016–Present	
==Prestige Productions==
In 2013, Pendant began producing Audible programming as part of their new "Pendant Prestige" lineup. Each prestige show has a behind the scenes podcast featuring interviews with the actors, writers, and composers.
Title 	Year 	Notes
Phantom Canyon 	February 27, 2014 	
Archer & Armstrong: The Michelangelo Code	March 16, 2016 – June 15, 2016	Co-production with Valiant Comics
==Other Projects==
Pendant has been featured in The Sonic Society's Summerstock Playhouse.
	
In early 2012, a Kickstarter campaign for a Dixie Stenberg and Brassy Battalion Comic Book was successfully financed. Issue #1 was released to select donors in Fall 2012.
	
== In the press ==
Pendant shows have aired on radio stations including CHLY-FM radio in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada, KTDR-FM in Del Rio, Texas, Titan Radio at California State University, Fullerton, and Krypton Radio. Clips from Pendant shows have been featured on Saturday Live on BBC Radio 4.
== Awards and accolades ==
Year	Award 	Category 	Recipient
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Fan/Adaptation Comedy of the Year 	Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Long Form Fan/Adaptation Series of the Year 	Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Long-Form Original Adaptation of a Pre-existing Work 	Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Original Composition in a Fan/Adaptation Production 	Vincent Morrison for "Balthasar's Song (Hey Nonny Nonny)" in Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Most Outstanding Performance of Voice Actor in a Fan/Adaption Leading Role 	Pete Milan as Macbeth in Macbeth
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Most Outstanding Performance of Voice Actor in a Fan/Adaption Supporting Role 	Jason R. Wallace as Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Most Outstanding Performance of Voice Actress in a Fan/Adaption Supporting Role	Mindy Rast Keenan as Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Original Drama of the Year 	Tabula Rasa
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best New Original Show of the Year 	Tabula Rasa
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Best Long Form Original Series of the Year 	Tabula Rasa
2013	Audio Verse Awards	Most Outstanding Performance of Voice Actor in an Original Supporting Role 	Jason R. Wallace as Terry "Ganymede" Morris in Tabula Rasa
2014	Parsec Awards 	Best Speculative Fiction Story: Large Cast (Short Form) 	"Dirty Hands" by Niall Kitson (Seminar #54)
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Actress in an Original Supporting Role 	Mindy Rast-Keenan as Morgan le Fay in Genesis Avalon
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Writing of a Self-Contained Short-Form Production 	"Crimson Cape" by Anna Rodriguez (Seminar #55)
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Actress in a Self-Contained Production 	Anna Rodriguez as Kori in "Constant Vigilance" (Seminar #56)
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Actress in a Fan/Adaptation Supporting Role 	Alicen Moser as Feste in Twelfth Night
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best New Original Composition in a Production 	Vincent Morrison for "The Wind and The Rain" in Twelfth Night
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Ongoing Original Long-form Drama of the Year 	Tabula Rasa
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Actress in an Original Leading Role 	Susan Bridges as Erin Jayne Sayre in Tabula Rasa
2014	Audio Verse Awards	Best Original Composition in a Production 	Karina Barroso for "By Her Side" in Tabula Rasa
2015	Parsec Awards 	Best Speculative Fiction Magazine or Anthology Podcast 	Seminar
2015	Parsec Awards 	Best Speculative Fiction Story: Small Cast (Short Form) 	“O’Malley’s Media Storm” by V.C. Morrison (Seminar #59)
2015	Audio Verse Awards	Best Fan/Adaptation Anthology/Variety Show 	The Pendant Shakespeare
2015	Audio Verse Awards	Best Actor in a Fan/Adaptation Serial Production 	Colin Kelly as Brutus in Julius Caesar
== See also ==
* List of podcasting companies
* 2014 Parsec Award Winners
== References ==
== External links ==
* Pendant Productions
Category:Podcasting companies
Category:Media companies of the United States
Category:American radio dramas