Listen In Quarantine with Steve Bodow

“What to my people is the fourth of July?” — Idris Goodwin & Adam Mansbach

Season 2 Episode 2

July 23, 2020

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Adam Mansbach

Author

Adam Mansbach is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Go the Fuck to Sleep, as well as the novels Rage is Back, The End of the Jews (winner of the California Book Award), and Angry Black White Boy, and the memoir-in-verse I Had a Brother Once. With Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel, he co-authored For This We Left Egypt? and the bestselling A Field Guide to the Jewish People, and his books for young readers include the New York Times bestseller Just Try One Bite and the award-winning Jake the Fake series, co-written with Craig Robinson. The screenwriter of the acclaimed Netflix Original film Barry, Mansbach is the recipient of a Sundance Screenwriting Lab fellowship and a two-time winner of both the Reed Award and the American Association of Political Consultants’ Gold Pollie Award, for his 2012 Obama/Biden campaign video “Wake the Fuck Up,” and his 2020 Biden/Harris campaign ad “Same Old,” both starring Samuel L. Jackson. Mansbach is also the founder of the 1990s hip hop journal Elementary, the former New Voices Professor of Fiction at Rutgers University, and a former drum tech for the legendary drummer Elvin Jones. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, New York Times Book Review, Esquire, The Believer, The Guardian, and on National Public Radio’s All Things Considered, The Moth Storytelling Hour, and This American Life. His new novel is The Golem of Brooklyn.

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Steve Bodow

Reboot Board Chair

Steve Bodow is a 14-time Emmy-winning writer and producer, having served as EP and showrunner of Netflix’s Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, following 13 years at The Daily Show with Jon Stewart as an EP, head writer and staff writer. Bodow also co-edited and co-wrote the Daily Show’s three best-selling books, America: The Book; Earth: The Book; and The Donald J. Trump Presidential Twitter Library. The Trump Twitter Library also became a live installation event, touring the US and winning a Cannes Lions Grand Prix. 

In 2021, Bodow created and coordinated “Climate Night,” a one-night event where seven major American late-night shows devoted their airtime to climate issues, reaching more than 20 million viewers.

Bodow is a founding member and a past artistic director of Elevator Repair Service,[1] the New York theater group best known for Gatz, its full-text adaptation of The Great Gatsby, which played sold-out runs at NYC’s Public Theater, London’s Old Vic, and in more than 25 other cities globally.

In addition to Reboot, he sits on the boards of ERS and The Onion‘s parent company, Global Tetrahedron.



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Idris Goodwin

Artist

Idris Goodwin is a multidisciplinary arts leader and creative community builder. Across two decades he’s forged a multi-faceted career as an award-winning script writer for stage and screen, Break Beat poet, director, educator, and organizer. He is the new Director of The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at Colorado College. The author of Free Plays: open source scripts for an antiracist tomorrow, Goodwin is committed to using the arts to spark meaningful conversation.