The Mind's Eye was a theater company which produced dramatized radio adaptations

Radio drama

Radio drama is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance, broadcast on radio or published on audio media, such as tape or CD. With no visual component, radio drama depends on dialogue, music and sound effects to help the listener imagine the characters and story...

 of various written works, most notably the 1979 National Public Radio broadcast of J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings

The Lord of the Rings (1979 radio series)

In 1979 the US National Public Radio broadcast a radio dramatization of J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings. It was produced by The Mind's Eye and has since been made available by several different companies....

and in 1980, The Hobbit

The Hobbit

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again, better known by its abbreviated title The Hobbit, is a fantasy novel and children's book by J. R. R. Tolkien. It was published on 21 September 1937 to wide critical acclaim, being nominated for the Carnegie Medal and awarded a prize from the New York Herald...

. Its works have been distributed by Jabberwocky, Soundelux

Soundelux

Soundelux is an audio post production company based in Hollywood, California. Founded by Lon Bender and Wylie Stateman in 1982, Soundelux is currently a member of the CSS Studios, LLC consortium of sound companies....

, and Highbridge Audio. Prominent players include Bernard Mayes

Bernard Mayes

Anthony Bernard Duncan Mayes is a retired teacher, broadcaster, university dean, lecturer and author. Born in Britain, Mayes is now a citizen of the United States of America. He lives in San Francisco...

, Erik Bauersfeld, John Vickery

John Vickery

John Estill Vickery is an American stage and film actor known for his work in Babylon 5 and Star Trek. Vickery grew up in Oakland, California. He attended the University of California at Davis, where he pursued a degree in mathematics...

, Lou Bliss

Lucille Bliss

Lucille Bliss is an American actress and voice artist. A New York City native, she has appeared in films and on television shows, including The Smurfs as Smurfette, Nickelodeon's Invader ZIM and Walt Disney's Cinderella...

, Gail Chugg, Tom Luce, Ray Reinhardt, James Arrington

James Arrington

James Arrington is an American stage actor, director, playwright and scholar. His plays are about the people or the culture of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ....

, Pat Franklyn, Wanda McCaddon, Rick Cimino, Joe Gostanian, John Joss, Karen Hurley, Kevin Gardiner, Darryl Ferreira, and Carl Hague.

List of Mind's Eye productions

Many of the productions were adapted and direction by Bob Lewis, and include:

1. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (1972)
2. Alice Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll (1972)
3. Beauty and the Beast by Mme. De Villeneuve (1975)
4. The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky by Stephen Crane (1972)
5. The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe
6. The Celebrated Jumping Frog by Mark Twain (1972)
7. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (1972)
8. Dr. Heidegger's Experiment by Nathaniel Hawthorne
9. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stephenson (1973)
10. The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe
11. The Gold Bug by Edgar Allan Poe
12. Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
13. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1975)
14. Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain
15. The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells (1983)
16. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving (1972)
17. The Light Princess by George MacDonald (1979)
18. The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle (1974)
19. Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
20. Mr. Higginbotham's Catastrophe by Nathaniel Hawthorne
21. My Kinsman, Major Molineux by Nathaniel Hawthorne
22. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
23. The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
24. Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson (1972)
25. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame (1979)
26. The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
27. Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne
28. Aladdin by Antoine Galland (1974) with James Arrington as Aladdin, Beverlee Cochrane as Scheherezade, Lynn Preisler as the Mother, Joe Hughes as the Sultan, and Joe Gostanian as the Vizier
29. A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court by Mark Twain
30. The Odyssey by Homer (1977)