The Truth (podcast)
The Truth | |
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Genre | Fiction |
Language | English |
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Jonathan Mitchell (Executive Producer) Davy Gardner (Associate Producer) |
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Original release | 2012 – present |
Website |
thetruthpodcast |
The Truth is an anthology fiction podcast and founding member of Radiotopia by PRX. Episodes are released about once every two weeks. Many nationally syndicated public radio programs, including This American Life, Studio 360, Snap Judgment, and The Story, have featured work by The Truth.
History
In 2009, Jonathan Mitchell and Hillary Frank received funding from American Public Media to produce pilot stories together. One of those stories was "Moon Graffiti," which was later featured on The Guardian podcast and won the 2010 Gold Mark Time Award.[1] This story later became the first episode of The Truth.
In December 2011, Ed Herbstman and Mitchell hired a group of improvisors (many from the Magnet Theater, which Herbtsman cofounded) to write stories together, with the goal of producing a story in one month. The first piece was "Interruptible." The group continued working together and eventually reached the podcast's current output of two stories a month.
The Truth was named by iTunes to be the Best New Arts podcast of 2012[2] and the #1 new podcast of 2012 by The Daily Dot.[3]
The show's title comes from a quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures." [citation needed]
Episodes
2012 | |||
Episode | Date | Voices | |
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Moon Graffiti | November 2, 2012 | Matt Evans, Ed Herbsman, and John Ottavino | |
Eat Cake | February 14, 2012 | Eliza Skinner, Birch Harms, and Curtis Gwinn | |
Movie Mash-Up | February 22, 2012 | ||
Interruptible | June 3, 2012 | Christian Paluck, Chet Siegel, Louis Kornfeld, Amy Warren, Ed Herbstman, Melanie Hoopes, Charlotte Rabbe, and Jamie Rivera | |
They're Made Out of Meat | March 20, 2012 | Russ Armstrong and Miriam Tolan | |
Everybody SCREAM!!!! | November 4, 2012 | Chet Siegel, Emily Tarver, and Ed Herbstman | |
Tape Delay | April 25, 2012 | Ed Herbstman and Tami Sagher, with Libby George and Christian Paluck | |
People Beat | September 5, 2012 | India Kotis, Matt Evans, Melanie Hoopes, Carmen Berkeley, Matt J. Weir, Bryn Magnus, Christian Paluck, Ed Herbstman, and Amy Warren. With Tim Dadabo, Louis Kornfeld, Chet Siegel, Leanne Linsky, Jon Bander, and Kelly Moylan | |
Total Transparency and Eye Contact | May 23, 2012 | Chet Siegel, Ed Herbstman, and Louis Kornfeld | |
In Good Hands (part 1) | June 6, 2012 | Emily Tarver, Alex Marino, Louis Kornfeld, Ed Herbstman, Christian Paluck, and Amy Warren. | |
Human Intelligence | June 20, 2012 | Ed Herbstman, John Ottavino, and Melanie Hoopes | |
In Good Hands (part 2) | December 7, 2012 | Emily Tarver, Alex Marino, Louis Kornfeld, Christian Paluck, Ed Herbstman, Amy Warren, and Ben Jones | |
Lucy and the Bike Girl | July 25, 2012 | ||
Third Party | September 8, 2012 | Ed Herbstman, Chet Siegel, Rick Andrews, Nick Kanellis, Louis Kornfeld, Amy Warren, and Bryn Magnus | |
Machine Men | August 22, 2012 | ||
That's Democracy | May 9, 2012 | Peter McNerney, Russ Armstrong, Alexis Lambright, with Fiona Bradford, Teddy Shivers, Oscar Montoya, and Ben Jones | |
Domestic Violins | September 19, 2012 | Amie McKenna, Michele Durman, Michael Whalley, and Martin Dingle Wall. Produced at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Radio Beyond Radio conference. | |
Do You Have a Minute for Equality? | April 10, 2012 | Chet Siegel and Tom Ligon, with Matt J. Weir, Quentin Loder, and Melanie Hoopes | |
The Death of Poe | October 18, 2012 | Christian Paluck, Ed Herbstman, Chet Siegel, and Louis Kornfeld | |
The Modern Prometheus | November 2, 2012 | Louis Kornfeld, Rachel Hamilton, Tom Ligon, Chet Siegel, Amy Warren, Ed Herbstman, Christian Paluck, and Rupert Degas | |
In Good Hands (rerelease) | November 14, 2012 | ||
Interruptible (rerelease) | November 28, 2012 | Christian Paluck, Chet Siegel, Louis Kornfeld, and Amy Warren. With Ed Herbstman, Melanie Hoopes, Charlotte Rabbe, and Jamie Rivera | |
Mirror Lake | December 14, 2012 | Ed Herbstman, Lauren Ashely Smith, and Louis Kornfeld | |
2013 | |||
Happy New Year | October 1, 2013 | Ben Jones and Tom Ligon | |
It's Going to Change Your Life | February 21, 2013 | Kelly Buttermore, Amy Warren, Melanie Hoopes, Louis Kornfeld, Ed Herbstman, and Christian Paluck | |
Where Have You Been? | March 22, 2013 | Ed Herbstman, Ben Jones, Christian Paluck, Chet Siegel, Louis Kornfeld, Amy Warren, and Asher Herbstman | |
Falling | April 11, 2013 | Chet Siegel and Peter McNerney, with Willy Appleman, Louis Kornfeld, Lauren Ashley-Smith, Sebastian Conelli, Quinton Loder, Jon Bander, and Kim Ferguson | |
You're Not Alone | May 10, 2013 | Christian Paluck, Carly Monardo, Tom Stephens, Louis Kornfeld, Jon Keller, Kerry Kastin, Nick Mykins, Aina Rapoza, and Ashley Wilson with special musical guest Elizabeth Ziman (of Elizabeth and the Catapult), singing a song by Daniel Johnston. | |
Fine Dining | August 15, 2013 | Louis Kornfeld, Elana Fishbein, Nick Jaramillo, Tom Ligon, Kevin Cragg, Kerry Kastin, Brian Frange, Bob Kern, and Matt Evans. With help from the improv groups Featherweight and Nurse Practitioner. | |
Sweets for the Cheat | August 29, 2013 | Jon Bander, Alessandro King, Bianca Casusol, Brian Frange, and Elana Fishbein. | |
The Mutiny | September 15, 2013 | Melanie Hoopes. Asher Herbstman, Bea Herbstman, Blanche Ames, Ed Herbstman, Shacottha Fields, and Noel Dinneen | |
Keep Running | September 29, 2013 | Peter McNernery, with Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Julia Hynes, and Teddy Shivers | |
The Talk | October 13, 2013 | Christian Paluck, Dmitry Shein, Willy Appelman, and Elana Fishbein | |
The Devil You know | October 24, 2013 | ||
The Memoirist | November 11, 2013 | Elana Fishbein, Matt Antonucci, Kevin Kiernan, Lauren Olson, Alessandro King, Sebastian Connelli, Blanche Ames, Kevin Cragg, and Michael Kroll | |
Tough Crowd | November 25, 2013 | Alejandro Kolleeny, Annemarie Cullen, Devin O'Neill, Megan Gray, Noel Dinneen, Maddy Mako, Matt Shafeek, Shacottha Fields, Louis Kornfeld, and Elana Fishbein | |
Naomi's World | December 10, 2013 | Isabel Frohnhofer, Tom Ligon, Elana Fishbein, Imran Chowdhury, Laura Parker, Philipp Goedicke, Dennis Pacheco, Blanche Ames, Ron Palais, Willy Appelman, Andrew Yurman-Glaser, and Phoebe Tyers | |
Biological Clock | December 20, 2013 | Tami Sagher, Ed Herbstman, Louis Kornfeld, and Kerry Kastin | |
2014 | |||
It's Your Funeral | January 25, 2014 | Andy Moskowitz, Jackie Hoffman, Ben Jones, Damon Ketron, Phoebe Tyres, Shacottha Fields, Blanche Ames, Amy Warren, and Rebecca Robles | |
The Extractor | March 10, 2014 | Ed Herbstman, Kevin Cragg, Annemarie Cullen, Dennis Pacheco, and Rebecca Robles. With Melanie Hoopes, Bea Herbstman, Alex Marino, and Kerry Kastin. | |
Jeff Gets Towed | March 30, 2014 | Andrew Yurman-Glaser, Sebastian Conelli, and Phoebe Tyers | |
Interns | April 15, 2014 | Maggie Morris as Melanie, and Emily Shapiro as Annalyse. With Willy Appelman, Dennis Pacheco, Elana Fishbein, and Louis Kornfeld | |
Voyager Found | May 14, 2014 | Chet Siegel and Peter McNerney | |
The Penis Museum | May 28, 2014 | Phoebe Tyers and Damon Ketron. With Elana Fishbein, Alejandro Kolleeny, Kerry Kastin, and Ira Gamerman. | |
Chaotic Neutral | June 18, 2014 | Elana Fishbein, Jon Bander, Justin Moran, and Matt Shafeek | |
Cold Read | September 17, 2014 | Alex Marino, Christina Dabney, Blanche Ames, and T.J. Mannix | |
Silvia's Blood | October 15, 2014 | Andy Moskowitz, Rebecca Robles, Diana McCorry, Ben Jones, and Al King | |
Return of the Extractor | November 12, 2014 | Ed Herbstman and Elana Fishbein. With Louis Kornfeld and Alejandro Kolleeny | |
Sketchballs | November 26, 2014 | Rosie Whalen and Chris Dwane, with Louis Kornfeld | |
Naughty or Nice | December 18, 2014 | Seth Lind, Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Eli Itzkowitz, Ed Herbstman, Shaina Feinberg, Tom Ligon, Kevin Cragg, Willy Appelman, Kerry Kastin, Katie Corr, Phoebe Tyers, Pat May, Olivia Simonson, Asher Herbstman, Bee Herbstman, Melanie Hoopes, and Gregory C. Jones | |
2015 | |||
The One about the Dead Dog | January 15, 2015 | Phoebe Tyers and Dennis Pacheco, with Nick Mykins, T.J. Mannix, and Chris Dwane | |
Don’t Touch a Thing | February 11, 2015 | Amy Warren, Armando Diaz, Jackie Hoffman, Louis Kornfeld, and Noel Dinneen | |
Living the Dream | March 12, 2015 | Adam Wade, Chrissie Gruebel, Dan Fairall, and Blanche Ames | |
Joe Frank | March 26, 2015 | Mark Hammer, Barbara Sohmers, Carolyn Swift Hammer, Arthur Miller, F. Murray Abraham, Annalee Jefferies, Eric Seers, and Paul Mantell | |
Can You Help Me Find My Mom? | April 8, 2015 | Bee Herbstman, Melanie Hoopes, Ed Herbstman, Evan Sudarsky Abadi, Gregory C. Jones and Blanche Ames | |
The Last Job | May 20, 2015 | Peter McNerney, Louis Kornfeld, Rebecca Robles, India Kotis, Dave Hill, Alex Marino, Phoebe Tyers, Rupert Degas, and T.J. Mannix | |
Remember the Baby | June 4, 2015 | Ann Carr, Louis Kornfeld, and Amy Warren | |
Dark Matter | July 16, 2015 | Kevin Corrigan, Chet Siegel, Ed Herbstman, Dennis Pacheco, Alexis Lambright, Anna Sale, and Rob Webber | |
Enjoy the Suffering | September 10, 2015 | Bianca Casusol, Kate Emswiler, Louis Kornfield, Jake Hart, Blance Ames, Jimmy O'Connell, and Kerry Kastin | |
Tuesday | September 24, 2015 | Anni Ginsterer, Belinda Jombwe, Rupert Reid, and Rahel Romahn | |
Starburst | October 23, 2015 | Matt Antonucci, Angela DeManti, Kerry Kastin, Alejandro Kolleeny, and Louis Kornfeld | |
Santa for President | December 16, 2015 | Tom Ligon, Rachel Dratch, Russell G. Jones, Connie Ray, Shaina Feinberg, Willy Appelman, Jo Firestone, Phoebe Tyers, Mo Rocca, Helen Coxe, T.J. Mannix, Lauren Ashley Smith, Bill Rohlfing, Mario Correa, Kerry kastin, Louis Kornfeld, and Benjamin Correa | |
2016 | |||
Call of Dating & The Big Prawn | January 15, 2016 | "Call of Dating" is performed by Clair Galea and Dennis John Cahill. "The Big Prawn" is performed by Katia Pase. | |
Visible & Drive Straight Ahead | February 12, 2016 | "Visible" is performed by Russell G. Jones, Rachel Hamilton, Ann Carr, and Kerry Kastin. | |
Man V. Nature | March 9, 2016 | David Pasquesi, Ed Herbstman, and Mark Gessner. | |
Songonauts (Episode One) | April 14, 2016 | Jonathan Mann, Elena Skopetos, Bianca Casusol, Tom Ligon, Louis Kornfeld, Jimmy O'Connell, Amy Warren, and Dan Fairall | |
The Man in the Barn | May 12, 2016 | Sarah Reynolds, Joe Mullins, Maeve McGrath, Diarmuid McIntyre, and Louis Kornfeld | |
Songonauts (Episode Two) | June 9, 2016 | Jonathan Mann, Elena Skopetos, Bianca Casusol, Tom Ligon, Louis Kornfeld, Jimmy O'Connell, Amy Warren, and Dan Fairall | |
The Making of That's Democracy | July 13, 2016 | ||
Sleep Some More | September 7, 2016 | Brian Miskell, Mark Gessner, Lusia Strus, and Hannah Chase | |
Cor-wrong-ct! | October 12, 2016 | Peter McNerney, Lane Kwederis, Alessandro King, Scott Adsit, Laura Grey, Ed Herbstman, Tami Sagher, April Matthis, Becca Schall, Willy Appelman, Louis Kornfield, Tom Ligon, and Blanche Ames | |
Commentary Track | November 10, 2016 | Birgit Huppuch, Libby Woodbridge, and Maurice Jones | |
Naughty or Nice | December 7, 2016 | Seth Lind, Elana Fishbein, Louis Kornfeld, Eli Itzkowitz, Ed Herbstman, Shaina Feinberg, Tom Ligon, Kevin Cragg, Willy Appelman, Kerry Kastin, Katie Corr, Phoebe Tyers, Pat May, Olivia Simonson, Asher Herbstman, Bee Herbstman, Melanie Hoopes, and Gregory Jones | |
The Sweet Music of Friction | December 22, 2016 | Khalil Kain, Craig muMs Grant, Keith Randolph Smith, Shamika Cotton, Chris McKinney, Louis Kornfeld, Jaymes Jorsling | |
2017 | |||
The Dark End of the Mall | January 11, 2017 | Lauren Adams and Peter Grosz | |
Ice Music (rerelease) & Mirror Lake | January 25, 2017 | Gregory Whithead; Ed Herbstman and Lauren Ashley Smith with Louis Kornfeld | |
A Drop in the Ocean | February 9, 2017 | Gregory Jones, Chris McKinney, Russell G. Jones, Billy Griffin Jr., Reynaldo Piniella, and Michael Cullen, with the Magnet Theater improv team Eagelfox. | |
Bloodless | February 22, 2017 | James Urbaniak | |
Miracle on the L Train | March 8, 2017 | Joanna Hausmann, T.J. Mannix, Christina Dabney, Philip Godicke, Rachel Rauch, Shacottha Fields, Suni Reyes, Lou Gonzalez, Louis Kornfeld, Adam Twitchell, Will Quinn, Leonard Lyzner, Joe Lepore, Dennis Pacheco, and Andrew Vuilleumier | |
Scavenger Hunt | March 23, 2017 | Rebecca Robles and Louis Kornfeld | |
Hey Bumblebee | April 13, 2017 | Alexis Pereira, Elana Fishbein, Michael Delisle, Kelsey Bailey, Anna Neu, Angela DeManti, Matt Shafeek, Becca Schall, Ed Herbstman, Hannah Chase, Dennis Pacheco, and Bill Rohlfing | |
Intimacy Challenge | April 26, 2017 | Leonard Lyzner, Florencia de la Lorca, Russell Jones, Gillian Glasco, Lipica Shah, and Jordan Mahome | |
Do the Voice | May 10, 2017 | Erica Schroeder, Brian Dykstra, Marc Thompson, Justin Morgan, Rosie Whalen, Susan J. Jacks, Chris Kipiniak, Lorena Russi, Eric Molinsky, Kerry Kastin, Asher Herbstman, and Rob Webber | |
Influencers (Part I of II) | June 29, 2017 | Michael Delisle, Ann Carr, T.J. Mannix, Michael Cullen, Chris McKinney, Will Quinn, Becca Schall, Louis Kornfeld, Chris Kipiniak, and Kerry Kastin | |
Possible Side Effects | September 13, 2017 | Adam Wade, Hannah Chase, Mariette Strauss, Elana Fishbein, Dennis Pacheco, Anne Antonucci, Jeremy Bent, Noel Dinneen, and Seth Lind | |
Brain Chemistry | September 27, 2017 | Scott Adsit, Amy Warren, Ed Herbstman, Anna Neu, Billy Griffin Jr., Alexis Lambright, Louis Kornfeld, Elana Fishbein, Joanna Hausmann, and Kerry Kastin | |
Magic Hugs | October 11, 2017 | Austin Pendleton, April Matthis, Jenny Lee Mitchell, Becca Schall, Kevin Cobbs, Louis Kornfeld, Chris Kipiniak, Kerry Kastin, Kate Chapman, T.J. Mannix, and Phoebe Tyers | |
The Decider | October 25, 2017 | Tallie Medel, Tim Platt, and Kelsey Bailey | |
Game Night | November 11, 2017 | Bill Rohlfing, Adelaide Kipiniak, Max Kipiniak, Brandi Varnel, Margaret Burrus, Kelsey Bailey, Jack Frederick, Jimmy O'Connell, Leonard Lyzner, Willy Appelman, Ariel Gitlin, Richie Moriarty, Lila Newman, Elana Fishbein, Suni Reyes, Dennis Pacheco, Andy Moskowitz | |
Troll | November 23, 2017 | Abby Royle, Kyle Gordon, Ashlie Atkinson, Jennete Cronk, Jaymes Jorsling, Kerry Kastin, Chris Kipiniak, Becca Schall, Lila Newman, Louis Kornfeld, and Matt Shafeek | |
Mall Santa | December 13, 2017 | Tom Ligon, Chris Dwane, Anna Neu, Bianca Casusol, Jimmy O’Connell, Kevin Cobbs, Louis Kornfeld, Kerry Kastin, Becca Schall | |
2018 | |||
The Co-op | January 31, 2018 | Hannah Chase, Dennis Pacheco, Amy Warren, Susan Owen, Betty Hudson, Joel Bernstein, Michael Cullen, and Sam Tsoutsouvas | |
Nuclear Winter | February 14, 2018 | Woody Fu, Danielle Delgado, and Billy Griffin, Jr. | |
Rideshare | February 28, 2018 | Dana Kaplan-Angle, Amir Darvish, and Boris Khaykin | |
The Hilly Earth Society | March 21, 2018 | Michael Cullen | |
The Runaways | April 5, 2018 | Jenny Mudge and Chris Henry-Coffey | |
Justice Battalion | April 19, 2018 | Jake Hart, Marc Thompson, Erica Schroeder, Billy Bob Thompson, and Graham Rowat | |
The Matter of Tyco | May 10, 2018 | Lila Newman, Erica Hernandez, Fred Newman, Joel Bernstein, Jack Frederick, Jeff Wucher, Kyle Gordon, Davy Gardner, and Margaret Burrus | |
The Jesse Eisenberg Effect | June 7, 2018 | Jesse Eisenberg, Keith Rubin, Jaymes Jorsling, Jeremy Bent, Lenny Thomas, Jeff Wucher, and Jonathan Mitchell | |
Fish Girl | June 20, 2018 | Bee Herbstman, Alison Cimmet, Scott Richardson, and Ed Herbstman | |
Wonderworld, U.S.A. | July 12, 2018 | Taylor Dalton Curtis, Federico Rodriguez, Sam Tsoutsouvas, Lila Newman, Chris Kipiniak, Peter McNerney, Molly Kiernan, Davy Gardner, John Ross, Kyle Gordon, Anthony Sneed, Dennis Pacheko, Phoebe Tyers, Becca Schall, Matt Whitfield, Amy Warren, Marisa Brau, Mike Cabellon, Rick Andrews, and Louis Kornfeld |
Awards
Year | Award | Episode |
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2010 | Mark Time Gold Award | Moon Graffiti |
2010 | PRX Zeitfunk Award 2010 for Most Listened-to Piece | Moon Graffiti |
2012 | iTunes Best New Arts Podcast of 2012 | |
2012 | Daily Dot's #1 New Podcast of 2012 | |
2013 | Mark Time Gold Award | The Modern Prometheus |
2013 | Ogle Silver Award | In Good Hands |
2013 | Ogle Silver Award | That's Democracy |
References
External links
- This American Life #463 - Own Worst Enemy
- Transom - "Modern Radio Drama" article
- Third Coast Audio Festival interview
- Inside Stories podcast
- Daily Dot: "The Truth" according to Jonathan Mitchell
- Comedy Conglomerate interview with Jonathan Mitchell
- WNPR program Where We Live
- Guardian UK feature on The Truth
- Radio Drama Revival interview with Jonathan Mitchell
- Studio 360
- Snap Judgment
- The Story
- On Radio: The Truth, and Other Jeopardies
- Beginnings Podcast Interview of Jonathan Mitchell
- The Truth Podcast Meets Fundraising Goal