Claire Schoen

Claire Schoen is an audio producer, creating sound-rich, character driven, documentary-style stories.

Working in a wide variety of media – radio, podcast, audio tour, webstory, film/video and museum exhibit – Claire’s documentaries open a window onto the lives of everyday people; weaving their stories into a narrative whole. Claire teaches documentary storytelling at a number of venues including U.C. Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, Duke University’s CDC and currently at the Stanford Storytelling Project.

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Survivors

Tens of thousands of inmates in American prisons live in total isolation. They don't see anyone. They don't talk to anyone. They are completely alone, sometimes for years, in a cell the size of a small bathroom.

Re:sound #125: The Justice Show

This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories.

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Making a Scene: The Use of Verite to Show, Not Tell, Your Story

A well-crafted scene, heard on the radio, opens a window onto a new world and allows the listener to fly right in. Claire Schoen explores the process of creating scenes -- showing real people living their lives -- for an audio documentary.

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