Biog :
www.albooth.com
Allen Booth is a multimedia developer who has designed and programmed scores of online applications – everything from a world news service (therealnews.com), to a multimedia web site for scientist/broadcaster David Suzuki (sacredbalance.com), to a sequential email application which currently markets and delivers the email mystery novel The Daughters of Freya (emailmystery.com). Allen is also is a television writer/producer – co-creator of the docu-drama series Exhibit A, writer/producer on the acclaimed drama series Traders, and writer/story editor for the true crime series 72 Hours. Currently Allen is working on a new site for The Real News, episodes of Vision series Convictions, and animated videos for Benger Cogent Productions. Allen is a graduate of the University of Toronto School of Music and has written and produced musical scores for many Canadian films, television programs and plays.
IN MORE DETAIL
As a multimedia developer...
Allen is an experienced visual designer and computer programmer who has created web sites and multimedia productions for numerous companies and organizations including The Real News, Kensington Communications, The Canadian Paraplegic Association, Soulpepper Theatre, Nortel, AOL Canada, The Last Minute Club, USC Canada, and Manzer Guitars (a world-renowned guitar maker). Recently Allen created a super-secure intranet application for a New York stock market research firm and a sequential email application currently used to market and distribute the email mystery novel The Daughters of Freya. For Canadian software maker SolvWare Inc. Allen managed a project to create a talking email system. For The Japan Camera Centre Allen created the front-end for an online photo-upload service. For EMI Canada Allen programmed the multimedia portion of Robert Priest’s Tongue ‘n’ Groove (the first “Enhanced CD” that EMI didn’t send to New York for programming). Links to many of the web sites Allen has designed can be found at www.albooth.com.
As a television writer/producer...
Currently Allen is writing an episode of Vision series Convictions and animated videos for Benger Cogetn Productions. During the past three years, Allen worked as a story editor and wrote nine episodes of 72 Hours
(CBC). Allen (CBC). Allen co-created Exhibit A: The Secrets of Forensic Science (still in re-broadcast; originally for Discovery and TLC). On the critically acclaimed drama series Traders (Global), Allen was a (Global), Allen was a writer and story editor (season one) and a producer (season two). Allen worked in various capacities on the children’s sitcom Eric’s World (several networks (several networks worldwide, 65 episodes). With Robert Sandler he was head writer for the first four seasons, creative producer for two seasons, and during the final season, series consultant and writer of six episodes.
Other children’s television written with Robert Sandler includes two episodes of the TVO/PBS series Dudley The Dragon and the CTV Special The Biggest Little Ticket (winner of the (winner of the Alliance for Children and Television Award of Excellence; nominated for a Gemini Award).
Allen has co-written several plays including The Shadowboxers (a radio-drama produced by (a radio-drama produced by CBC Radio) and Ho Mao and Julietta (an anti-racist rock musical). With award-winning actor Steven Bush, Allen created Life On The Line – a musical play performed to critical acclaim throughout Canada. From 1984 to 1989 Allen was co-artistic director of Mixed Company – a Toronto based theater company dedicated to producing new Canadian plays. With his partners at Mixed Company he developed and produced many new works including world premieres by one of Canada’s best playwrights, David Fennario.
(Television Award: Allen co-wrote the CBC 'Super Special' Dream Weaver – winner of the – winner of the Golden Rose for Best International Variety Show in the world at the Montreux Television Festival.)
As a music producer / composer...
Over the past 20 years Allen has composed and produced many scores for Canadian television, film, radio and stage. Some highlights... Allen composed and performed original scores for East Side Showdown (an NFB documentary on homelessness aired on CBC Television’s 'Witness' series); the BBC documentary Global Raiders; the Vision TV documentary Our Hiroshima (broadcast in Canada and Japan); CBC sitcom Material World; CBC news flagship The Journal; a TV movie starring Louis Del Grande entitled Sanity Clause; and the Governor General’s Award winning play Harlem Duet (produced in Toronto and New York). Allen produced music for short films by the late Ramiro Puerta – Crossroads and and Topic of Cancer – both hits of the Toronto International Film Festival.
Allen has also composed and produced two albums of songs for young children: Lullabies and Playsongs and Winterlong (lyrics by award-winning poet Robert Priest). Several 'Teds' songs became music-videos on Sesame Street.
(Music Awards: Allen won a Dora Award for the rock-musical Sid’s Kids. With Djanet Sears and Quammie Williams, he created original music for Africa Solo, winner of the US Major Armstrong Award for Most Innovative Radio Drama.)
UNIVERSAL CIVILIAN By Allen Booth
he's four years old he's a new born babe
he dies with missiles and with spears
he's all of 31 and he's only 17
he's been a-dying for a thousand years
she's the universal civilian
She's dying in fallujah
She's dying in Spain
they say It's for the freedom of all
but she didn't get a choice
even though she raised her voice
It was silenced when the bombs began to fall
he's running from the bullets
She's hiding in the wall
he swims across the river in the night
They think they can't be seen
But they're glowing ghostly green
In the crosshairs of a telescopic site
The Universal Civilian
They'll say you were a rebel
A Terrorist a spy
Or maybe you were never there at all
There'll be no brass band
There'll be no parade
No name engraved upon a long black wall
For the Universal Civilian
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