a hit dog will holler
A series from Radiotopia Presents, a podcast of limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices.
Gina’s pro-Black, political-yet-entertaining podcast is a welcome balm to her community. If she could only drown out the roar coming from outside. Dru comes to help, but she gets trapped too. Gina and Dru are two African-American women who can't leave, can't stay. It's about America. It's about time.
a hit dog will holler is written by Inda Craig-Galván. It is produced and directed by Gisele Regatão. Mixing and sound design by Sandra Lopez-Monsalve, with help from Isabel Hibbard. Theme music by Christina Gaillard. Performed by Cynthia K. McWilliams, J. Nicole Brooks, and Jacqueline Guillen. Show art by Yee Eun Nam.
For Radiotopia Presents, Mark Pagán is the producer. Production support from Yooree Losordo. Audrey Mardavich and Julie Shapiro are the executive producers. It’s a production of PRX’s Radiotopia and part of Radiotopia Presents, a podcast feed that debuts limited-run, artist-owned series from new and original voices.
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Inda Craig-Galván is a Chicagoan who lives in Los Angeles, where it’s warm. A playwright and TV writer, her plays include Black Super Hero Magic Mama (Blue Ink Prize, Kennedy Center Rosa Parks Award, Princess Grace runner up, Geffen Playhouse), I Go Somewhere Else (Playwrights’ Arena), Welcome to Matteson! (Kesselring Prize), and The Great Jheri Curl Debate (world premiere Fall 2022 - East West Players). Her theatre work has been developed at the Eugene O'Neill National Playwrights Conference, Ashland New Play Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, The Old Globe, Orlando Shakes, J.A.W. at Portland Center Stage, and a few others that won't fit here. Inda is also a TV writer on Demimonde, the upcoming HBO series created by JJ Abrams. Previous TV credits: The Rookie, How to Get Away with Murder, Happy Face. MFA in Dramatic Writing, University of Southern California.
Gisele Regatão is a Brazilian who lives in New York City, but not because it’s cold. She is a professor of journalism at Baruch College and she also teaches podcasting at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. Before that, Gisele worked in management positions at the public radio stations WNYC and KCRW for 15 years. Some of her recent stories include an investigation on an art fraud case for Reveal; a series on why campaigns fail to get Latinos to vote for Latino USA; a piece about the salsa album Siembra for Studio 360 and the fiction podcast series Celestial Blood, released both in English and Spanish. Gisele also works with podcasters in her native Brazil, where she oversaw a fiction series for kids about the adventures of two corals in Pernambuco and a journalistic project about water and sewage in a favela in Rio de Janeiro.
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