Creating Complex Characters with Jenny Turner Hall and Florencia Lozano

Audience

On this episode of the Audience podcast, Stuart chats with Jenny Turner Hall and Florencia Lozano about how they created a high-concept podcast with a complex protagonist. With the rise of fiction podcasts, audio fiction, and docuseries, some podcasts now require better stories and compelling characters. How do podcasters achieve that level of storytelling? What are the ins and outs of audio fiction? Jenny and Florencia also talk about A Simple Herstory, “a theatrical and high-concept podcast series about the women who have run for President of the United States.”

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Today you’ll learn about:

• The story behind “A Simple Herstory”
• Looking at history and thinking through history critically
• Choosing a multi-dimentional main character for a complex story
• Writing complex characters
• Crafting characters that are based on actual people
• Discovery through word-of-mouth
• Audio fiction audiences
• The audio fiction community and engagement
• Welcome to Nightvale and old teleplays
• How to support audio fiction

Resources/Links:

Florencia Lozano: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0523568/

Jenny Turner Hall: https://www.jennyturnerhall.com/

“A Simple Herstory: Audio as Theater (ft. Jocelyn Kuritsky)”: https://3clipspodcast.com/a-simpler-herstory-audio-as-theater/

Castos Academy: https://academy.castos.com/

Castos, private podcast: https://academy.castos.com/privatepodcast/

Castos, website: https://castos.com/

Castos, YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/castos

Clubhouse video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8729ZpWpmIw