Radiolab Live: Into the Void

Radiolab is a public radio show and podcast from WNYC that takes listeners on a curiosity bender. We ask deep questions and use investigative journalism to get the answers. A given episode might whirl you through science, legal history, and into the home of someone halfway across the world. The show is known for innovative sound design, smashing information into music. It is hosted by Lulu Miller and Latif Nasser. Founded in 2002, Radiolab has been named one of “10 non-fiction podcasts that changed everything,” “revolutionary” and a pioneer in narrative sound design (Vulture) and has been honored with two Peabody Awards. Radiolab was ranked among the top 50 U.S. podcasts by Edison Research in 2024.

Matt started at Radiolab as an intern. Now he works here as a Senior Producer. Around and in-between those two things, he lived in Minnesota, attended school in Arizona, tried to find himself, lived in Washington D.C., learned radio from Rob Rosenthal at the Salt Institute for Documentaries Studies, hung around This American Life, was awarded the Above the Fray fellowship to report in Uganda, and had a metal plate screwed into his wrist.

Pat started out at the show in 2010 as a production assistant, became a producer, and spent about five years on staff making stories about all kinds of things, from a brain tumor that may have turned a man into a pedophile to the greatest comeback in the history of basketball to the reason 90 percent of humanity is right handed. He left for a few years to edit Pop-Up Magazine, the world’s first “live magazine;” host a podcast at Gimlet Media called Undone; and help create the Peabody Award-winning podcast Uncivil with Jack Hitt and Chenjerai Kumanyika. He returned to Radiolab in 2017 and now serves as its managing editor.

Sarah Sandbach is the Executive Director of Radiolab and Executive Producer of its family-friendly podcast, Terrestrials.
She has worked across a range of acclaimed WNYC productions, including Two Dope Queens, 10 Things That Scare Me, On the Media, The New Yorker Radio Hour, and Death, Sex & Money, in addition to editorial partnerships with The Atlantic, The Museum of Modern Art, The History Channel, and The Public Theater.
Prior to joining WNYC, Sarah worked at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She holds a B.A. in Art History from Trinity College.

Kristin Marting is an award-winning director, writer & creative producer based in NYC. She has constructed 37 world premieres (15 hybrid, 9 opera/music-theatre, 8 adaptations of novels/short stories & 5 classics).

Selected premieres: BAM, HERE, Ohio Theatre, Soho Rep. Selected touring: 7 Stages, Berkshire Festival, Brown, MCA, New World, Painted Bride, UMass, Moscow Art Theatre, Oslo. Selected workshops: Clubbed Thumb, New Georges, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theatre, Target Margin. Selected residencies: Ankram Opera House, Bethany Arts Center, LMCC, Mabou Mines, Mass MOCA, NACL, Playwrights Center, Space at Ryder Farm, Voice & Vision, Williams.

She is an activist who has organized many art actions and currently serves on the NYC Theatre and Live Performance Industry Council as well as a public member of Community Board #2.

Recipient of an OBie award for Lifetime Achievement and Proclamation from the NY State Assembly for steadfast leadership at HERE, two prestigious MAP Fund awards, a nytheatre.com Person of the Decade, a Leader to Watch by Art Table and a BAX10 Award.

Founding Artistic Director Emeritus of HERE, an award-winning progressive arts center in lower Manhattan. Also co-founded and co-curated 13 editions of PROTOTYPE, a city-wide annual opera and music theatre festival.

Normandy Sherwood is a writer, a director, and a scenographer/costumer. Recent work includes her curtain spectacular PSYCHIC SELF DEFENSE (2024 OBIE Award) and Beast Visit as a part of HERE Arts Center’s HARP residency, Scenographer/co-creator of Theater in Quarantine’s Nosferatu, a 3-D Symphony of Horror at Skirball in 2023 and scenic, prop, costume design for Two Sisters Find a Box of Lesbian Erotica in the Woods by Bailey Williams and Emma Horwitz, produced by Rattlestick/New Georges. Her theater company is The Drunkard’s Wife, and from 2001-2017 she was a co-artistic director of The National Theater of the United States of America (R.I.P.). She has designed costumes for Faye Driscoll, Tina Satter/ Half Straddle, Young Jean Lee, Rachel Chavkin/Anne Washburn, Kristin Marting. She has been an artist in residence at HERE, MacDowell, Yaddo. She’s a Clinical Associate Professor in Expository Writing at NYU and has an MFA in playwriting from Brooklyn College. Shows in the works: Phantom of the Opera with Theater in Quarantine, The Mushroom (a pageant of the forest floor), with Nikki Calonge, developing as a part of the New Georges Audrey Residency.

Mary Ellen Stebbins (Lighting Design) Based in New York City, collaborations include work with Little Island, MCC Theater, Shakespeare Theater Company, Opera Philadelphia, Juilliard, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pittsburgh Opera, as well as Theresa Rebeck, CYI Studio, Clare Barron, A$AP Rocky, Adrienne Truscott, Monica Bill Barnes, and AMOC*. Mary Ellen is a 2020 Bessie Award Honoree for her work with Monica Bill Barnes’ Days Go By and a 2016 Henry Hewes nominee for her design for Clare Barron’s I’ll Never Love Again. She is a 2019 Opera America Tobin Director-Designer Prize recipient, a 2014 Live Design Young Designer to Watch, the 2011 USITT Barbizon Lighting Design Award winner, and a 2009 Hangar Theater Lab Company Design Fellow.

Mary Ellen holds an AB from Harvard University and an MFA from Boston University. She is a member of USA 829 and currently teaches at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

Jeremy S. Bloom is a sound designer for Radiolab. Jeremy’s work focuses on crafting immersive story-driven soundscapes for podcasts, museum exhibits, films, and theatrical productions. He has designed an ever-growing list of sounds including laughing sea-monkeys, satanic snakes, lonely whales, projection-mapped viking battles, generative rainstorms, the Big Bang, two separate Queer island utopias, dopamine molecules, and more!
Jeremy’s original sound design and music can be heard on episodes of WNYC’s Nancy, Two Dope Queens, Radiolab, Sooo Many White Guys, and others. His original sound designs include permanent installations at the Statue of Liberty and have been presented internationally by Netflix, Google, HBO, Discovery, Magnolia Films, BBC Wales, CNN Films, History Channel, Planet Word, The Tenement Museum, America’s Test Kitchen, ATG London, New York Theatre Workshop, and more. Jeremy won the 2024 Primetime Emmy for Outstanding Sound Editing for his work on Ron Howard’s feature documentary “Jim Henson: Idea Man.” He teaches the next generation of directors how use sound at NYU’s graduate film program.

Bio to come.