
Sort of a stifled "Hfff" sound, where you clear your throat right afterwards and hope nobody noticed it. Well, they're the kind of funny that makes you do that ashamed chuckle you do when you're listening to a podcast in public. Most concepts springing from the twin Idea Hells of Kickstarter and IndieGoGo are so obviously stupid that they'll never go into production - saving valuable landfill space - and many of them are laugh-out-loud funny. As the Manager of Community Relations, Julia has put together workshops and shows for the homeless, Alzheimer’s caregivers, teenagers, corporate executives, artists, and everyone in between.Useless robots, minimalist shoes, and "offensive" card games up to the friggin' Pope's stinky eyeballs! (EBut it's not all bad. She has performed in hundreds of improv shows across the United States and is one of the company’s most frequent teachers and coaches. One of the founding members of Sea Tea Improv, Julia is also in the Advanced Study program at the Upright Citizens Brigade. She has written an essay for NPR and is currently a contributor to and The Beaker Blog. Every year she plays a squirrel in Night Fall, and she was selected as one of Mystic Seaport’s 38th Voyagers on the historic whaleship the Charles W.
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A freelance writer, Julia created the Syllable Reading Series and hosts Literary Disco, a podcast about books and reading. She has worked in many places around the world, including but not limited to: a hairdresser’s in Atonsu, Ghana a preschool and university in Dongying, China a mobile bookstore in Manhattan a dogwalking collective in Harlem a library in the South Bronx - and now she is the Director of Writing Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum. Follow Tod on Twitter Pistell is a writer, actor, and public relations expert in Hartford, Connecticut. His next book, Death of a Gangster, the concluding volume in the Gangsterland trilogy, will be released in Fall 2020. Tod Goldberg holds an MFA in Creative Writing & Literature from Bennington College and directs the Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing and Writing for the Performing Arts at the University of California, Riverside.He lives in Indio, CA with his wife, the writer Wendy Duren. His essay “When They Let Them Bleed” was selected for Best American Essays 2013 and in 2016, Tod was awarded the Silver Pen Award by the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. His essays, journalism, and criticism have appeared in numerous publications, including the Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Review of Books, & Wall Street Journal, among many others, and have earned five Nevada Press Association Awards for excellence. His work has been published in over a dozen countries. Follow Rider on Twitter Goldberg is the New York Times & international best-selling author of over a dozen books, including the novels Gangster Nation, Gangsterland, which was a finalist for the Hammett Prize, The House of Secrets, which he co-authored with with New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer, and Living Dead Girl, finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, as well as the the popular Burn Notice series. in Fiction & Literature from Bennington College. Rider graduated magna cum laude from Columbia University and received his M.F.A. They now write and direct television and film. The pair also created an award-winning spec campaign commercial in support of Barack Obama that became the first political ad to air on Comedy Central.
Along with his brother, Rider has written and directed three short films that have played over 60 festivals worldwide and won both audience and juried awards at multiple fests. Back on stage, he starred as Benjamin Braddock in both the First US National Tour and the Australian productions of The Graduate.


He’s been covered in blood for a slew of horror and thriller films since. At 20, Rider secured his place in the independent film world by starring in Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever. He became best known in his teens for Boy Meets World, which ran for seven seasons on ABC. Rider Strong After being cast as Gavroche in Les Miserables at nine years old, Rider Strong began a career that has lasted two decades and spanned a variety of genres and formats. The network is also integrated on the Lit Hub website with a player widget the site reaches over 3MM readers per month, and all episodes are published as an editorial feature as well as promoted across its social channels (1MM+ reach) and daily newsletters (200,000+ subscribers). The show is part of the Lit Hub Radio network, which reaches over 1MM downloads per month across over 15 podcasts. ***Show is bi-weekly, posting every other Tuesday. Hosted by Tod Goldberg, Julia Pistell, and Rider Strong.
