Jeremy McCarter is a writer and producer.
He is the co-author of Viewfinder with Jon M. Chu (forthcoming in July 2024), as well as the New York Times bestsellers Hamilton: The Revolution with Lin-Manuel Miranda, and In the Heights: Finding Home with Lin-Manuel Miranda and Quiara Alegría Hudes. He is the author of Young Radicals, a story of idealistic Americans fighting for their ideals, which The Wall Street Journal called "brilliant, even inspiring." He is the literary executor of the novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder. He is the founder and executive producer of Make-Believe Association, a nonprofit audio production company. With Make-Believe, he co-created, co-wrote, and executive produced Lake Song, the acclaimed audio-drama series that was an Official Selection of the Tribeca Festival, a Webby Award nominee, and the winner of three Signal Awards. He also co-wrote (with Natalie Moore) and executive-produced City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919, an audio docudrama about the summer that ravaged and remade the city. It was co-produced by Make-Believe Association and WBEZ, and won the Headliner Award for Best in Show for radio broadcasts in 2019. Prior to founding Make-Believe, he spent five years on the artistic staff of the Public Theater in New York, where he created and ran the Public Forum series. These performances and conversations featured many of America's leading actors, writers, activists, and community leaders, exploring the intersection of arts and society. He edited and wrote the introduction to Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie. He has also written about culture and politics for New York magazine, Newsweek, and The New York Times. He wrote the introduction to the 2020 reissue of Thornton Wilder's novel The Ides of March and the liner notes for the cast recording of the 2005 Broadway revival of Stephen Sondheim’s Company. He participated in the Obama Foundation Summit of civic leaders in 2017. He also served on the jury of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. He directed radio plays that opened for The Magnetic Fields on one of the band’s national tours. He studied history at Harvard and lives in Chicago. He is represented by CAA. |