Ann Heppermann is a Brooklyn-based, independent radio/multimedia documentary producer and educator. A Peabody Award-winning producer, she also has received awards from the Associated Press, Edward R. Murrow, and Third Coast International Audio Festival. From 2010-11, she was a Rosalynn Carter Mental Health Journalism fellow, reporting on perinatal depression. In 2011, she was named a United States Artists (USA) Fellow with Kara Oehler. She is also a faculty member teaching radio writing and radio drama at Sarah Lawrence College.
Ann Heppermann appears in the following:
Memory and Forgetting
Friday, April 26, 2024
Remembering is a tricky, unstable business. This hour: a look behind the curtain of how memories are made...and forgotten.
American Icons: Native Son
Thursday, July 20, 2017
The story of a young man in the ghetto who turns to murder was an overnight sensation. But some think "Native Son" exploited the worst stereotypes of black youth.
American Icons: Monticello
Thursday, March 09, 2017
This is the home of America’s aspirations and its deepest contradictions.
Imaginary Friends Forever
Thursday, October 13, 2016
Children with imaginary friends can be more empathetic and social, but does that mean they’re more creative than other kids?
Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Some of our culture’s most enduring monsters transmit their contagion through biting — werewolves, zombies, and vampires. Could these myths actually be about rabies?
Reconstructing Viruses
Thursday, September 08, 2016
Why do scientists want to recreate viral monsters like the 1918 Spanish flu? And if they do, should they be allowed to publish the instructions?
The Flame Alphabet
Thursday, September 08, 2016
In his novel “The Flame Alphabet,” Ben Marcus imagines what would happen if children’s speech made their parents sick.
American Icons: 'Untitled Film Stills'
Thursday, May 05, 2016
Photographer Cindy Sherman’s pioneering series "Untitled Film Stills" transformed what self-portraits could be.
American Icons: Native Son
Thursday, July 30, 2015
The story of a young man in the ghetto who turns to murder was an overnight sensation. But some think "Native Son" exploited the worst stereotypes of black youth.
Does Your Zombie Have Rabies?
Friday, September 12, 2014
Some of our culture’s most enduring monsters transmit their contagion through biting — werewolves, zombies, and vampires. Are these myths really about rabies?
Reconstructing Viruses
Friday, September 12, 2014
Why do scientists want to recreate viral monsters like the 1918 Spanish flu? And if they do, should they be allowed to publish the instructions?
The Flame Alphabet
Friday, September 12, 2014
William S. Burroughs famously said that “language is a virus.” In his novel The Flame Alphabet, Ben Marcus imagines what would happen if children’s language made their parents sick.
How to Fly to Alpha Centauri
Friday, July 18, 2014
It’s a staple of sci-fi, but the realities of interstellar travel are grim: it would take tens of thousands of years to get to our nearest neighbor in the galaxy using current technol...
American Icons: Untitled Film Stills
Friday, May 16, 2014
Cindy Sherman launched her career by placing herself in photos that look like movie stills for imaginary movies. With Untitled Film Stills, she also created some of the most recogniza...
Aha Moment: Mary Karr's "Entering the Kingdom"
Friday, May 09, 2014
Ten years ago, Beth Greenspan put a poem in her wallet that she’s carried ever since.
Alex Timbers and Here Lies Love
Friday, April 25, 2014
The director Alex Timbers has carved out a unique niche as a director of historical musicals, including the critically acclaimed Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Last year, Timbers direc...
American Icons: Untitled Film Stills
Friday, October 11, 2013
In the 1980s, Cindy Sherman began taking self-portraits that showed her in costumes and scenarios that looked just like movie stills, although they were her own inventions. In a media...
American Icons: Native Son
Friday, September 06, 2013
The story of a young man in the ghetto who turns to murder was an overnight sensation. But some think Native Son exploited the worst stereotypes of black youth. We trace the line from...
The Flame Alphabet
Friday, March 08, 2013
William S. Burroughs famously said that “language is a virus.” Novelist Ben Marcus took Burrough's line as inspiration for The Flame Alphabet. In the book, the language of children ha...
Reconstructing Viruses
Friday, March 08, 2013
Vincent Racaniello of Columbia University did groundbreaking research on reconstructing the DNA of viruses (sort of like microbial Jurassic Park). The method was used to re-create the...
