Deondra Kamau Means has 30 years of experience as a voice actor and has worked with the Hear/Now Festival for the past three years. He was voice talent for Blood Cotton and co-produced and assistant directed American Socialist: The Life and Times of Eugene Victor Debs. He was featured as a voice artist with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s Lollipops Family Concerts as a narrator for Peter and the Wolf. He also is a featured singer with The Hues Corporation and was recorded as a featured soloist with the Kentucky Symphony Orchestra’s Ragtime Band in Rags to Riches. In addition to directing, Means is the pianist at Second Baptist Church of Bond Hill in Cincinnati.