Steve Charney

Charney is an author (over 15 books published), ventriloquist and magician, radio and podcast personality, songwriter (he's written dozens of songs for Jim Henson and Disney), he's a stage performer (thousands of shows internationally), musician and all-around nut. He was profiled in the New Yorker magazine, has a comic strip called Knock On Wood Comicks, has recorded several albums of music and comedy for Scholastic, Metacom and others. His public radio show has won awards, he was a commentator for "All Things Considered" and feels very lucky about how things have turned out.