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Winner of three Signal Awards
- Best Original Music/Score - GOLD
- Best Scripted Fiction Series - SILVER
- Best Sound Design - SILVER
Webby Award Nominee, Best Scripted Fiction Series
Named by Apple Podcasts a "Show That Captured Our Imagination" in 2022
Official selection 2022 — Tribeca Audio
WBEZ Chicago: ‘Lake Song’ explores the successes and hardships of life in Chicago in 2098
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Our Decameron (2020)
CITY ON FIRE: Chicago Race Riot 1919 (2019)
Lost Books of the Odyssey (2019)
Bruh Rabbit (2019)
Brer Rabbit, the iconic trickster of African-American folklore, returns in new tales by the poet Nate Marshall: It’s a whole new briar patch now.
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Gizmodo: Bruh Rabbit Brilliantly Reclaims and Reimagines an Important Piece of Black Folklore
Brava (2019)
A brave girl's journey through a land of many monsters, adapted from a Mexican folktale by Nancy García Loza.
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Overture: Where Do Stories Come From? (2018)
How can artists make each other more creative? As we count down to the release of Make-Believe's first audio drama, we talk with Monica Beletsky, acclaimed writer for TV and film, about artistic collaboration, the highs and lows of the TV writer's room, and the fable of the Town Mouse and the Country Mouse.
Overture: Why Talk About Stories? (2018)
As we get ready to release our first audio drama, we talk with Michael Sandel, the "rock star philosopher", who tells us why Americans need more chances to talk about stories--and shows us how it's done. Also covered: the art of listening, upstaging Matt Damon, and the case of Grasshopper v. Ant.
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Coming in January 2019, a diverse company of Chicago artists will produce new audio dramas—recorded live—and freewheeling audience conversations about them. In Season One, "Grown Folks' Fables", Make-Believe will draw on fables and folktales—sharing suspenseful, moving, hilarious stories, and trying to discover how they shape our world.
