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.
Recommended
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Accusations of lying fly between James Comey and White House During his testimony Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey accused President Trump and other White House officials of lying when they said the FBI was in disarray and its staff had lost confidence in him. President Trump’s lawyer said Comey was wrong -- that the president never asked for his loyalty, and never asked him to back off the investigation into former NSA director Michael Flynn.
Press Play with Madeleine Brand
How do Trump supporters feel about the Paris Accord? Globally and around the U.S., there are strong opinions whether or not the Paris Climate Accord is a good idea. The American exit is either a horrifying abdication of American leadership or a forceful and long overdue statement about U.S. sovereignty.
Bookworm
George Saunders: Lincoln in the Bardo (Part I) Lincoln in the Bardo dramatizes a grieving President Lincoln as he visits the grave of his beloved son Willie, who died at age eleven. In the novel, the buried dead believe they're not dead -- "they're sick and refer to their coffins as "sick boxes."