Jad Abumrad
I make audio stories for a living. And I’m a composer.
I've composed music for film and theater, most recently for the grammy-winning So Percussion and for Port(al), a site specific choral work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
I've also created a few podcasts - Radiolab, More Perfect, Dolly Parton's America, Unerased, The Vanishing of Harry Pace and Fela Kuti: Fear No Man - which collectively have been downloaded over a billion times.
I've won three Peabody Awards. In 2011, I was named a MacArthur Fellow.
These days, I work as a Distinguished Professor of Research at Vanderbilt University. And I collaborate with my partner Karla on projects big and small.
More info at jadabumrad.com
Karla Murthy
I am an Emmy nominated documentary filmmaker and journalist. The Columbia Journalism Review described my work as “compelling, informative and compassionate.”
I have worked as a producer, shooter and correspondent for several news outlets, most recently for PBS Newshour and The Intercept. I also directed and edited the award winning documentary films The Place That Makes Us, Love, Jamie, and The Gas Station Attendant. Go to Greene Fort Productions to see more of my work.
I've been supported by ITVS, Firelight Media, Center for Asian American Media, Women Make Movies, NYSCA, Vital Projects Fund, Economic Hardship Reporting Project, Chimaera Project, and Yaddo artist residency.
I collaborate with my partner Jad on projects big and small.