#Newsflash | Ira Glass from ‘This American Life’ Comes to Queens
BY QEDC It's In Queens
Ira Glass is the creator, producer, and host of This American Life, an award-winning public radio program with millions of listeners.
Catch his act in Flushing when Kupferberg Center for the Arts hosts Seven Things I’ve Learned: An Evening with Ira Glass on Saturday, March 11, at 8 pm.
Using audio clips, music, video, and his fetching personality, Glass will share lessons from his news/storytelling career. He’ll take the audience into his creative process, expounding on his passions, inspirations, successes, and failures.
Ticket prices run from $30 to $75.
A Maryland native, Glass was 19 when he became a summer intern at National Public Radio in 1978. He did just about every job (i.e. desk assistant, editor, newscast writer, producer, reporter, substitute host) with the nonprofit media organization before launching This American Life in 1995. So far, he’s done more than 700 shows, won six Peabody Awards, and received the first Pulitzer Prize ever awarded to a radio show while building a fan base that exceeds 5 million international listeners.
Seven Things I’ve Learned is scheduled for Colden Auditorium, which has capacity for more than 2,000 guests, at 153-49 Reeves Ave. at the edge of Queens College’s campus in Flushing. Various parking lots are in the vicinity.