We were a podcast and then we recruited an actor.
And after the first actor, and then a second, and then a third and very quickly we had over a dozen involved in the production. Once you have a dozen, you have a theatre.
In 2015, HWMS Audio Theatre started as a podcast about technology, leadership and the future of work. We quickly decided that our podcasts would be more interesting if we had someone we could teach, a member of the staff who would ask questions and at least pretend to learn the lessons. So we recruited our first actor, Sarah Corbyn Woolf, and gave her the character of “Anna, the Intern”.
Very quickly, we found that we could probe ideas in a dramatic setting that we could never address in a podcast. So we expanded the cast, started writing drama, and recast ourselves as a audio theatre. We recruited globally – East Coast, West Coast, UK, Italy, Japan, India – because location doesn’t matter to audio. We devoted ourselves to exploring the public world – work, offices, business, government,
relationships, and whatever else – through the close and very personal world of audio drama. The stories only exist between your ears. There is more drama in that little space than you can find in the rest of the world.
We’re HWMS. We’re Drama Like You’ve Never Seen It.