DIRECTOR
“Like having a film running in your ears”
— Royal National Institute of Blind People, UK on Macbeth (Almost Tangible)
With Charlotte Melen at Lovie Awards 2020 (Macbeth)
Award-winning audio-drama director Carl Prekopp uses a combination of studios and site-specific location recording to create an immersive, truthful and exciting way of storytelling using only sound and voice. He loves to create vivid pictures in the imagination of his listeners. His preferred mode of recording is to use Binaural microphones to re-create a listening experience as panoramic and close to real life as possible, counterbalancing an expansive depth of field with extreme close-on work.
Carl’s experimental working method allows the actors to have as much physical freedom as they need to facilitate a fully embodied performance. He appreciates the value of creative collaboration and encourages everyone within the cast and crew to share their ideas during the recording process. He is always keen to try on-the-fly suggestions as they often yield the most interesting results.
Carl has worked extensively with Almost Tangible and the BBC alongside award-winning sound designers/composers David Chilton from Essential Music and John Nicholls.
Carl Prekopp with Writer/producer Charlotte Melen and co-producer Saskia Black at The BBC Audio Drama Awards 2024 (Hamlet Noir)
Director Credits
BEATRIX POTTER COLLECTION
Almost Tangible
EMPEROR AND GALILEAN
by Henrik Ibsen/Ben Power
BBC Radio 3
OUT OF SIGHT (SEASONS 2 AND 3)
by Jessica Kincaid
Reflector Entertainment/West End Media
DEVILS
by Fyodor Dostoevsky/Mellisa Murray
BBC Radio 3
ANOTHER PLACE
by Sian Owen
BBC Radio 4/Radio Cymru Wales
CURTAIN DOWN AT HER MAJESTIES
by Michael Chaplain
Essential/BBC Radio 4
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARDS by Stephen Brown
Essential/Hampstead Theatre/BBC Radio 4
THE TRUTH ABOUT ANNA
by Michael Butt
Goldhawk/BBC Radio 4
THE LONELINESS OF THE LONG DISTANCE RUNNER
by Alan Sillitoe/Robert Rigby
Essential/BBC Radio 4
SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY MORNING
by Alan Sillitoe/Robert Rigby
Essential/BBC Radio 4
TAKEN
by Suzanne Heathcote
Allegra Productions/BBC Radio 4
