Episode description

IT HAPPENED HERE 2024 - A 6-episode “audio documentary from the future"
adapted by Richard Dresser from his own novel and directed by Joe Cacaci

Starring Edie Falco, Tony Shalhoub and John Turturro,

The first episode premieres on Wednesday, October 2nd on WNYC’s ON THE MEDIA podcast feed.

New episodes air every Wednesday between October 2nd and October 30th wherever you get your podcasts.

Inspired by Sinclair Lewis’ dystopian novel, It Can’t Happen Here, Dresser offers a glimpse of what could happen after the 2024 election if fascism creeps into the USA. Told through the voices of a fragmenting American family, It Happened Here 2024 describes a country that still has Netflix and free two-day delivery, where the only thing lost is freedom.

The cast includes Molly Babos, Molly Carden, four-time Emmy Award winner Edie Falco, Tony Award winner Santino Fontana, Luke Kirby, Tom Pecinka, Marianne Rendon, Tony Award winner and five-time Emmy Award winner Tony Shalhoub, and Emmy Award winner John Turturro.

Senior Producer: Jess Hackel 
Casting Director: Jack Doulin
Script Supervisor: Graham Ferguson

Original Music composed by Jared Paul
Engineering, mixing and sound design by Justin Kaupp and Bob Pomann
Digital Strategy by Michael Zhao 
Show Art by Eleni Tzaneros

Executive Producers: Joe Cacaci, Jack Doulin, Richard Dresser, Elliott Forrest. Evangeline Morphos and John Whalan.

It Happened Here 2024 was recorded at Pomann Sound Studios