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Sharon Mashihi is the creator of the serialized audio mindtrip Appearances (Mermaid Palace, Radiotopia), and its precursor, the audio documentary, Man Choubam, which aired on The Heart and Unficictional, and won the Third Coast Audio Festival Silver Prize.
Feb 1, 2021 · Let Sharon Mashihi Whisper in Your Ear. Her strange, intimate podcast, Appearances, feels like a breakthrough for the form. By Emily Gould, a novelist, critic, and features writer for New York...
- Emily Gould
- Features Writer, New York Magazine
Oct 7, 2018 · Sharon Mashihi, editor for The Shadows, was recognized with a Silver Award in the Best Documentary category for her piece, Man Choubam (I am good), about Mashihi and her mom trying to work our ...
For our feature on Man Choubam (I am good), we asked producer Sharon Mashihi: what were the main ingredients - inspirations, motivations, challenges, etc. - that are baked into this podcast? Radio Residents!
Sep 21, 2020 · Sharon Mashihi an audio artist, screenwriter, and story editor, and the creator of Mermaid Palace’s Appearances, an elaboration and response to her award winning personal documentary, Man Choubam, which won the Silver Prize at Third Coast Audio Festival in 2018.
- The First Audio Documentary I Ever Heard
- To Create Is to Get Stuck
- Time-Outs
- Little Work Gifts
- A Daughters Song
- Index Card Fetish
- Daisies
- Editors!
- Third Coast Radio Residency at Ragdale
Nazanin Rafsanjani’s story Not Your Parents’ Parent Trapwas the first proper audio documentary I ever heard. The story is about Nazanin’s parents - an Iranian couple unhappily married for 27 years and then divorced until - to everyone's shock - they fall in love again. And it’s the story that made me want to make radio. Like me, Nazanin is Iranian ...
After my mom and I got back from the cruise, and I had all the tape, I was excited to get going. I started writing about the meaning of my mom’s name. I remembered being nine years old, when my mother told me that her name, Nahid, referred to the Goddess of Beauty. A “goddess” was something I had learned about in school. A goddess was ancient and m...
I spent my childhood in front of the TV. I watched Saved by The Bell every day for years. My favorite parts were the dream sequences and when Zack would do a “time-out”. In his “time-outs” the action would freeze. All the other actors in the scene would be stuck in place, and Zack would explain his dilemma to the audience. When I started watching t...
I am often in a battle with myself to stop making excuses and just do the work. Excuses like, “I can’t concentrate, it’s too noisy here.” Or, “It’s really hard to get anything done when my desk is so cluttered.” When I first started freelancing, I would spend an entire day, going from one cafe, to another, to a library, to a bookstore, and back hom...
Rob Rosenthal first introduced me to Dmae Roberts’ story Mei Mei, A Daughter’s Songwhen he was my teacher at SALT. At the time, I appreciated that the piece was good, but I was new to making radio, so I didn’t recognize what an achievement it was to make a documentary with such a unique aesthetic - it seemed to be speaking the language of experimen...
I have a fetish for index cards. Without index cards, I wouldn’t be me. I use index cards in many ways. One of the ways I use index cards is to post reminders to myself on the wall. While I was working on this story, I had two index cards. The first read, “God, help me get out of the way and make the radio story that wants to be made.” I stole that...
This is one of my favorite movies, and once Kaitlin Prest saw it, it became our favorite movie as collaborators. I’m afraid I will only botch it by trying to describe what it’s like, but here goes: It takes place in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, a couple years before the country had a revolution. It’s gorgeous and surrealist. Full of colors. The mai...
Kaitlin Prest and Bob Carlson were wonderful editors. Kaitlin helped me realize that in order for the big talk to pay off structurally, I needed to clearly establish upfront that Iranians (and my mother in particular) value appearances. She suggested I write up “The Rules of Great Neck,” and she also suggested I create a section where, one by one, ...
Seriously, that residency was the lap of luxury. I had time to meditate two times every day, go for a run, and still get a shit ton of work done. I felt far enough away from my everyday life that my brain actually felt clear, uncluttered. One morning, I remember thinking, “I feel sick to my stomach about this story, none of the writing feels honest...
Apr 1, 2022 · Sharon Mashihi works in the mediums of audio, film, and performance. In 2018, Sharon won the Third Coast International Audio Prize Silver Award for her audio documentary, Man Choubam (I Am Good.) In 2020, she released the metafictional audio series, Appearances, in which she performed as 36 distinct characters.
