Master storyteller and resident playwright of The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati (TCT), Deondra Means has 30 years of experience as a voice actor. For the past three years, Means has worked with the Hear/Now Festival. He was voice talent for Blood Cotton and co-produced and assistant directed American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. He’s a featured singer with the Hues Corporation and has been a featured voice artist for the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Lollipops Family Concerts, as narrator for Peter and the Wolf. He was a featured soloist with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s Ragtime Band in Rags to Riches and, in addition to directing audio play readings and podcasts for TCT, Means is a voice talent with Sound Images based in Cincinnati.