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About Us
Outfront is radio stories about real life. It's all about
your ideas, your experiences, your perspectives, your story.
It's fifteen minutes of storytelling, experimental audio and
new ways of making radio. Stories told from Canadian perspectives
about the Canadian experience. You won't hear traditional
storytelling, and you won't hear reporters or hosts. Outfront
explores new ways of presenting stories which break the radio
mold.
 Neil
Sandell
Senior Program Producer
Neil Sandell is a renaissance man behind whose quiet, even
mysterious demeanour lies a bustling grab bag of former incarnations.
Here we have a "Reach for the Top" whiz kid (now
pitied by his old team mates with their corner offices and
six figure salaries); a former teacher; a former professional
photographer; a former playwright (and yes, in his dim and
distant Winnipeg days Neil's script did beat out one penned
by a lady called Carol Shields). All these past lives unified
only by his abiding love for dogs. But we have questions.
Why is his nickname The Hammer? Why does
he eat the same lunch every day, out of the same bowl? And
is it true that he yearns to be hired as an advisor by the
Spanish government to organise a "running of the pugs"
in Pamplona? No bull!
email: neil_sandell@cbc.ca
 Steve
Wadhams
Senior Producer
Steve is caught here in a "Christopher Robin" pose which may
charitably be described as showing an engaging sense of inquiry
and wonder, but really it's just the face of a kid who hasn't
got a clue what's going on. Steve's ability to turn his naivete,
curiosity and ignorance into a thirty year career in radio
has been the envy of many. His past includes a stint as an
on air soccer commentator and a failure to master the French
Horn. He comforts himself by singing too loudly in various
Toronto choirs. Steve was recently honoured with the "all
due disrespect" award from CBC colleagues for "making wonderfully
creative responses to the prospect of reaching old age." His
motto (of course) is "the main thing is to keep on going".
email: steve_wadhams@cbc.ca
 Laurence
Stevenson
Producer
Laurence defends his youthful 'king of the beach' pose with
the argument that it's attitudes like this that made Scotland
great. He can't decide if his proudest achievement was to
be born Scottish or to leave it and never go back. To his
colleagues at Outfront, Laurence is known as 'king of the
EAR', the experimental audio room where his main achievement
is not spilling tea over expensive equipment. When he's not
in the EAR Laurence can be found fiddling with any group of
Toronto musicians who'll have him. Audiences are always amazed
at his ability to restring the bow of his violin with the
few remaining strands of his own hair, without missing a beat.
Laurence is never happier than when he's making noises. Any
noises. His motto is: "So what's wrong with ear candy anyway?"
email: stevensl@toronto.cbc.ca
 Kent
Hoffman
Associate Producer/Technician
Kent Hoffman doesn't want you to know this,
but back in the day, he was quite the head banger. This early
pose demonstrates Kent's propensity to rock out. The zenith
of his musical ambition turned out to be what all small-town
Canadian garage bands dream of: opening for Doug and the Slugs
at the town arena in Brussels, Ontario. And although, Kent
claims his interests in "rocking all night long and partying
every day" have waned, he proudly displays a plastic
Paul Stanley figurine on his desk.
From his humble employment debut in a Milverton
bakery, Kent has managed to wend his way into the corridors
of power at the CBC by using his trademark "silent-but-deadly"
tactics.
email: kent_hoffman@cbc.ca
 Carma
Jolly
Producer
This little angel left Regina to seek her fortune
in places where they have mountains. Vancouver. India. Anywhere
but Regina. Carma is a published short story writer and an
accomplished documentary maker but she can't quite shake her
background in the 'new media'. And so it comes as no surprise
that she is Outfront's website whiz. But, we ask, how can
that possibly explain her personal site: "The Repository
for Sad Things"? Maybe that's where she plans to put
the little squishy mermaids she knits during story meetings.
Now that Outfront's website can no longer offer comprehensive
information and audio for our shows Carma has dedicated her
life to knitting our history - names of contributors, key
story lines - into a woolly shawl which will, in time, come
to rival the Bayeaux tapestry for size and historical value.
email:carma_jolly@cbc.ca
Regional Producers
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