Producer, 'The Organist'
PROFILE
Jenna Weiss-Berman
Producer
FROM Jenna Weiss-Berman
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The Organist Holiday Special 2015 A holiday broadcast presentation of The Organist, featuring some of the show's best stories.
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Episode 55: The Love Song of Frank Serpico Jenny Slate reads Lena Dunham’s Erotic Male Jewish Comedian Fan Fiction; plus Frank Serpico and Sarah Vowell.
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Episode 49: The Voice Teacher Barbara Maier started giving singing lessons to musical theater singers and cantors at Hebrew Union college. Then she became the go-to singing teacher for the downtown NYC queer, performance, and rock scenes, including Debbie Harry, Diamanda Galas, Kathleen Hanna, Penny Arcade, and many others.
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Episode 40: Cosmo's Factory Young drummer Neal Morgan dives deep with Creedence Clearwater Revival's Doug "Cosmo" Clifford on his playing on the 1970 classic "Long as I Can See the Light."
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Episode 39: Year-End Hour-Long Best-of Freak-Out A greatest-hits compilation from The Organist’s first two years, created for a special holiday broadcast on KCRW.
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Episode 35: The Brown Dog Chronicles Michael K. Williams (aka Omar from The Wire) performs a short radio drama written by artist and musician Willis Earl Beal. CONTAINS EXPLICIT LANGUAGE.
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Episode 34: Chimpanzees and the Sunset Thomas Lennon (The State, Reno 911!, Hell Baby) performs two short monologues written by Nick Jones (Orange Is the New Black) and Blake Butler (300,000,000).
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Episode 31: Thundershirt A conversation between Lena Dunham and Judy Blume, in Blume's Manhattan apartment.
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Episode 30: Rapping Taipei An interview with novelist Tao Lin on the pace of his speaking, with interjections from musicians Kool AD and Kitty and a short discussion with critic Christian Lorentzen. CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE.
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Design and Architecture
Farewell LA freeways, Peter Shire is back Angelenos don't want more freeways but we seem not to want mass transit either. Metro has killed the 710 freeway extension, and bus and train ridership is down across the region. What's the future of getting around in LA? And, Peter Shire is having a comeback. What attracts a new generation to his playful ceramics and furniture?
The Business
In 'Speechless,' Scott Silveri combines comedy, family & disability Scott Silveri has written and produced sitcoms for more than 20 years. In all that time, he never encountered a TV family that looked anything like the one he grew up in -- with a mom, a dad...and a brother with cerebral palsy. He changed that with his show Speechless on ABC. Silveri tells us about looking to his own past for stories, and why he was determined to make a family comedy and not just a "disability show."