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Hamlet
Adapter, director, and executive producer
Make-Believe Association, 2025

World premiere, Tribeca Festival 2025

Listen to the trailer

Coming to podcast platforms everywhere on June 10


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Viewfinder:
A Memoir of Seeing and Being Seen

By Jon M. Chu and Jeremy McCarter
Random House, July 2024

EW exclusive: Read the reveal here
Read Jon's IG announcement


"A must-read for aspiring artists and dreamers of all kinds" - Ava DuVernay
"The kudo crowd owes Chu a bow for his memoir" - Peter Bart

Buy at Bookshop.org | Amazon | B&N | Apple Books

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Lake Song
Co-creator, co-writer, and executive producer
Make-Believe Association, 2022


Official selection of the Tribeca Festival's Audio Premieres showcase
"Show That Captured Our Imagination" -- Apple Podcasts
Winner of three Signal Awards
"An audio drama that intersects with poetry, music, science fiction, and politics" -- Chicago Tribune


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In the Heights: Finding Home
By Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, and Jeremy McCarter
Random House, 2021

"An exuberant, unique, and invaluable record of dynamic, brilliant, and soulful creativity." -- Booklist (starred review)

The epic making of "Carnaval del Barrio": Read an excerpt in EW
Buy the book
here.
Listen to an audiobook excerpt read by America Ferrera here.

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City on Fire: Chicago Race Riot 1919
By Natalie Moore and Jeremy McCarter
A co-production of WBEZ and Make-Believe Association


An audio docudrama about the summer that ravaged a city--and remade it

Best in Show, National Headliner Awards

Listen here.

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Make-Believe Association
A new Chicago-based production company
Founder and Executive Producer


The company's online home: makebelieve.fm
Follow along at: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
Listen at: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Overcast | RadioPublic


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Young Radicals
By Jeremy McCarter
Random House, 2017

"Brilliant, even inspiring, full of whip-smart analysis that deserves to be read. Fresh and important" - The Wall Street Journal
"A beautiful, desperately-needed book that renders hope real again" - PopMatters
"Engaging, moving, laugh-out-loud funny" - Library Journal, starred review
"May well resonate with young radicals today" - TIME
Top 10 spring books - Publishers Weekly

Buy at Bookshop.org | Indiebound | B&N | Apple Books

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Hamilton: The Revolution
By Lin-Manuel Miranda and Jeremy McCarter
Grand Central Publishing, 2016

Hamilton and Obama: an essay for Buzzfeed
NPR joint interview with Lin
Vulture interview on writing the book
#hamiltome on Twitter

Buy at Bookshop.org | IndieBound | B&N | Apple Books

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Public Forum
Founder, director, producer, host
The Public Theater in New York, 2010-2015

The New Yorker on “Shakespeare in America”
The New York Times on “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals”
Vanity Fair on “What Are We Worth? Shakespeare, Money, and Morals”
The New York Times on “Public Forum Duet: David Byrne and Questlove”
Buzzfeed on “Public Forum Drama Club: An Evening with Desdemona and Emilia”

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Bite the Hand That Feeds You:
Essays and Provocations by Henry Fairlie

Edited and with an introduction by Jeremy McCarter
Yale University Press, 2009

​Christopher Hitchens review in The New York Times
David Remnick review in The New Yorker
Esquire “Daily Endorsement”: “I read Bite the Hand That Feeds You. And I’m better and wiser for it.”
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