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Regular Performers Fred Newman 
Once a freckled-faced, snaggled-toothed kid making sounds behind teachers backs, Fred grew up at the foot of storytellers in small town Georgia. He eventually grew up and ventured overseas, working for awhile as a street busker, blacksmith and then carpet salesman. He tried to go legit, graduating Harvard Business School and working with Newsweek magazine, and was first heard on A Prairie Home Companion as a guest in 1980 as author of his first version of MOUTHSOUNDS.
He went on to work as an actor, a writer, and a fairly inept puppeteer with Jim Henson, hosting many shows for Nickelodeon and Disney (including the New Mickey Mouse Club) He created voices, music, and sound effects for the long-running Nickelodeon and Disney cartoon series "DOUG" and went on to win Aces, Emmys, Peabodys, Clios, blah, blah... Fred is the touring SFX-guy for A Prairie Home, and can be seen daily on public television's reading show "Between the Lions”. His brand new book and CD/CD-ROM of MouthSounds has just been published. He lives in New York and Connecticut with his wife and two children, a cat, and two surly parakeets. They are all loud. | | | |
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