Retta (left) & Travis Larchuk (right) both react to something incredible on NPR's Ask Me Another
I'm a lead audio producer at the Vox Media Podcast Network, where I've had the opportunity to work with all sorts of awesome people on all sorts of awesome things, such as: the philosophical interview show The Gray Area, Brené Brown's Unlocking Us and Dare to Lead, and the Vulture / New York Magazine pop culture podcast Into It with Sam Sanders.
Previously, I was the senior producer and head writer at NPR's comedy/quiz show, Ask Me Another, where one contestant once referred to me as "clipboard guy." The show was a combination of everything I love: pop culture + public radio + game shows + comedy + live performance.
Even more previously, I worked as a producer at NPR's All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered, and Morning Edition in Washington DC and Los Angeles. I frequently directed breaking news specials, including the night Osama bin Laden's death was announced. (Guess which plotline from the corresponding episode of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom most resembled my evening.)
I love creating tactile storytelling experiences using interactive audiovisual installations. I created several installations for DC Listening Lounge's Sound Scene events. In 2013, I co-founded Science Fiction Trope, a collective of audiovisual artists. Just before the room escape craze got big in the United States, our first production was a show called The Time Machine: A Scientific Romance. It ran for 10 days in Washington, DC and was an underground hit.
In my spare time, I host a podcast called Seltzer Death Match (sometimes called "Club Soda Fight to the Finish" or "Little French Jelly Death Match"), play board games, GM tabletop role playing games, obsess over TV game shows and reality competitions, go hiking, seek out experimental and immersive theater experiences, and frequent establishments with good pinball machines.
I also went through the millennial rite of passage of improv and sketch comedy. I completed the full courses and did advanced study at Upright Citizens Brigade in NY and LA, attended Washington Improv Theater in DC, and made friends come to indie improv shows that were sometimes good and sometimes not. Oh yeah, and I went to Penn State where I wrote for and edited The Daily Collegian, the best student newspaper in the country (I have no data to back that claim up, but it feels true).
Previously, I was the senior producer and head writer at NPR's comedy/quiz show, Ask Me Another, where one contestant once referred to me as "clipboard guy." The show was a combination of everything I love: pop culture + public radio + game shows + comedy + live performance.
Even more previously, I worked as a producer at NPR's All Things Considered, Weekend All Things Considered, and Morning Edition in Washington DC and Los Angeles. I frequently directed breaking news specials, including the night Osama bin Laden's death was announced. (Guess which plotline from the corresponding episode of Aaron Sorkin's The Newsroom most resembled my evening.)
I love creating tactile storytelling experiences using interactive audiovisual installations. I created several installations for DC Listening Lounge's Sound Scene events. In 2013, I co-founded Science Fiction Trope, a collective of audiovisual artists. Just before the room escape craze got big in the United States, our first production was a show called The Time Machine: A Scientific Romance. It ran for 10 days in Washington, DC and was an underground hit.
In my spare time, I host a podcast called Seltzer Death Match (sometimes called "Club Soda Fight to the Finish" or "Little French Jelly Death Match"), play board games, GM tabletop role playing games, obsess over TV game shows and reality competitions, go hiking, seek out experimental and immersive theater experiences, and frequent establishments with good pinball machines.
I also went through the millennial rite of passage of improv and sketch comedy. I completed the full courses and did advanced study at Upright Citizens Brigade in NY and LA, attended Washington Improv Theater in DC, and made friends come to indie improv shows that were sometimes good and sometimes not. Oh yeah, and I went to Penn State where I wrote for and edited The Daily Collegian, the best student newspaper in the country (I have no data to back that claim up, but it feels true).