This American Life: Live at BAM

It’s This American Life’s wildest, most ambitious live show ever! Nearly 50 actors, singers, dancers, musicians and comedians joined Ira Glass onstage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House on June 7th, 2014 to try some things they'd never tried before. The result? Journalism turned into opera, into plays, into a Broadway musical. Comedy from Mike Birbiglia, and SNL’s Sasheer Zamata. Songs from Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields. Dance from Monica Bill Barnes & Company.

• Seth LindDirector
• Ira GlassWriter
• Mike BirbigliaWriter
• Joshuah BearmanWriter
• Sasheer ZamataWriter
• Lin-Manuel MirandaWriter

• Ira GlassHost
• Mike BirbigliaSelf
• Sasheer ZamataSelf
• Lin-Manuel MirandaNarrator
• Lindsay MendezNaomi
• Stephin MerrittHimself (Musical Guest)
• James RansoneDavid
• Anthony RamosJustin Laboy
• Josh HamiltonJoshua
• Joshuah BearmanNarrator