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Casey Dienel is a producer, singer, and songwriter known for their genre-defying solo work and earlier releases as White Hinterland. Raised on the New England coast, they’ve released four acclaimed albums marked by bold emotional depth and sonic invention. From their studio in Scituate, MA, Dienel continues to evolve a sound Nylon once called “wild, vicious, poetic, feminine, brash, and singular.” Their latest, My Heart Is an Outlaw, is out now on Jealous Butcher Records. 
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Casey Dienel

Music

Casey Dienel and Adam Schatz Talk About Real Stuff

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A House of Dynamite

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Erik Jensen and his wife Jessica Blank are a multihyphenate creative team in film, television and theater; The New Yorker calls them “the foremost practitioners of documentary theater in the U.S.” Their new film, Brooklyn, Minnesota, starring Amy Madigan, Sadie Jensen-Blank and Erik Jensen, is currently playing festivals, with a theatrical release planned for 2026; their first feature, Almost Home, was released in 2019 by Vertical. They are currently developing a biopic of legendary rock critic Lester Bangs and have written TV for Fox, 20th TV, Gaumont, Levinson/Fontana, David Simon/Blown Deadline, and Ed Burns. Their plays include The Exonerated (Outer Critics Circle, Lortel, Drama Desk Awards), Aftermath (NYTW; two Drama League noms), How To Be a Rock Critic (CTG, Steppenwolf, Public Theater), The Line (Public Theater) and Coal Country (Public Theater, Cherry Lane/Audible; Lortel, two Drama Desk noms; original music by Steve Earle).

Erik Jensen

Film

Finding the Light: The Making of Brooklyn, Minnesota

country girl’s upbringing was steeped in orchestral tradition and solitude. As a home schooled teenager, he enrolled in Juiliard’s Precollege program to study flute. At the age of 16, he discovered contemporary genres, now citing minimalist composers such as Steve Reich and slick projects in the vein of Air as key influences.
country girl is based in Brooklyn, and his latest EP, patience, is out now on FADER Label.

country girl

What Zohran Means For Alternative Music in New York

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Deborah Goodwin is a writer-director-producer whose work in film and television began as a development executive for Sanford-Pillsbury Productions (Desperately Seeking Susan, River’s Edge, How to Make an American Quilt). Deborah’s Urbanworld Film Festival Best Screenplay win for her darkly provocative family drama Cherrys launched her filmmaking path. She has written for Emmy-winning and Independent Spirit Award-nominated producers, and for shows like the cult favorite horror series Tales from the Cryptkeeper. She is a Film Independent and IFP lab fellow and an ABC and NBC diversity showcase director, best known for her horror fable Vampires in Venice and her action/drama The Pastor, released by Fathom Events and AMC. Her Icelandic noir Snaeland, which she co-wrote and produced, premiered at the Vail Film Festival and screens in the Brooklyn Film Festival 2020. Deborah is a Sundance Collab advisor and screenwriting professor at Brooklyn College, and a newly minted co-creator and writer of the noir-crime-thriller series Hot Freeze, with Canadian producer Nomadic Pictures (Hell on Wheels, Van Helsing, Fargo).

Deborah Goodwin

My Dad Was One Battle After Another

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