The Art and Craft of TV Drama with Aaron Tracy: Part Two - Redux

About this episode

Aaron Tracy discusses his experiences as a TV writer and producer, including his latest projects and teaching at Yale.

In anticipation of the third part in our series! Yale educator and TV writer/producer, Aaron Tracy, returns to chat with me about surviving the WGA writer’s strike, finally teaching the podcast at Yale, and his latest audio thriller on Audible, Nowhere Man, starring Lee Pace and Zosia Mamet. Aaron Tracy also teaches “The Art and Craft of Television Drama” at Yale University, and his TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, and Sequestered, a serialized thriller that ran two seasons, for which he was Creator and Executive Producer. He is also a Creator, Director, and Exec. Producer of scripted audio dramas for iHeartRadio, Audible, and Spotify, with various production partners including: Supreme: The Battle For Roe, his 9-part audio drama starring Eva Longoria (feat. Maya Hawke and William H. Macy); Murder in Bermuda (feat. Mary-Louise Parker); and many others. His most recent is Nowhere Man, a noir political thriller Executive Produced by and starring Lee Pace, with co-stars Zosia Mamet, and Chazz Palminteri. “Set in the mid-1980s, Nowhere Man is a dark, paranoid thriller about temptation and obsession through the prism of a profession most people don’t even…

People in this episode

Host: Kelton Reid

Guest: Aaron Tracy

Topics covered

• TV drama
• writing
• audio thrillers
• WGA strike
• Yale education
• scripted audio dramas

Keywords

• TV writing
• audio drama
• WGA strike
• Yale
• Nowhere Man
• scripted audio

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Yale University

Products: Nowhere Man

Books & works: The Coldest Case, Supreme: The Battle For Roe, Murder in Bermuda, Law & Order: SVU, Fairly Legal, The Tap, Sequestered

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