Tim Halbur, lead
Tim has produced more audio tours than anyone you’re likely to meet. Coming out of a couple of years at the KQED-FM news department in 1994, Tim brought his public radio chops to Antenna Audio. Antenna was reinventing the audio tour, melding their own history as a theatre company with a new approach to museum audio tours focused on creating an immersive experience. Tim’s emphasis on first-person interviews that went beyond the curatorial voice pushed Antenna to new heights. Ten years at Antenna led him to produce and write audio tours for museums such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Space Center Houston, The Art Institute of Chicago, Madame Tussaud’s Las Vegas, The Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, and many more.
Running his own company (Hear Now Productions), Tim produced podcasts and tours for nonprofits and private clients such as Four Seasons Hotels and Resorts, The American Institute of Architects, and the Forté Foundation. An early pioneer of podcasting, Tim created a podcast for Chronicle Books featuring their roster of authors that ran for 50 episodes.
Most recently, Tim was the in-house audio tour producer for the prestigious Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles.
Mo Daviau, Editorial Director
Mo is an author, storyteller, and performer with a keen eye and ear for how words behave on the page and out loud. She holds an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan. Her novel, Every Anxious Wave, was published by St. Martin’s Press in 2016 and was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. She is also a widely published essayist. In what feels like another life now, Mo performed improv comedy and solo storytelling at theaters all over Austin, Texas, and learned audio editing at a weeklong summer documentary course at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her favorite museum is the Museum of Everyday Life in Glover, Vermont.