Actress and all-around talent Renee Elise Goldsberry.

Author George Saunders (Lincoln in the Bardo) has an excellent new book of literary criticism with a focus on Russian short stories, titled A Swim in a Pond in the Rain. Since the book contains several stories from other famous authors–written in a different voice to the rest of the text–producers at Penguin Random House are having a talented group of performers brought in to read the different works contained within the whole. This is where we come in!

Dubway engineer Zach Grappone linked with all-star performer Renee Elise Goldsberry (of the original cast of Hamilton) for a remote recording of a Tolstoy short story, which is used in Saunders’ book. The session utilized one of our Orbiter remote rigs (remotely-controlled recording packages, with a microphone, capable of being set up in the clients home or office) to get a great sounding read without ever having the engineer and talent in the same physical space.

Thanks as always to our friends at Penguin, especially producer and director Kelly Gildea, for organizing the session, and stay tuned for the audiobook! It should be a must-read (or must-listen) for fans of Saunders’ work, Russian literature, or aspiring short story writers.