Hinds and Pensavalle shared an obsession with the true-crime documentaries flooding Netflix, Hulu, and other streaming platforms. Their chats soon turned from casting calls to crime. They wondered how they hadn’t been friends forever. An actor, writer, and showrunner, she’d spent years in show business: So successful was Pensavalle’s sideways look at the show that cast members began calling it “The official Hamilton podcast.” In 2017, Pensavalle met Hinds through the theater grapevine, and the pair shared happy hour cocktails over a love of the world’s best-known theatrical district. That the pair should meet was no surprise: since 2016 Pensavalle-a fellow New Yorker-had written and produced The Hamilcast, a podcast devoted to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s blockbuster Broadway show Hamilton. But it wasn’t quite a career, and Hinds couldn’t give up his nine-to-five. Broadway podcasts were Hinds’ niche, and he’d brought the curtain down on his competition. A year later, Hinds’ Broadway Backstory went even deeper, dissecting a show from idea to opening night-and in 2017 Disney tapped his talent to produce its The Official Disney on Broadway Podcast. The show did well: Buzzfeed loved it, and the 2015 Webby Awards honored it in the “Best Podcast” category. So in 2013, Hinds created and co-produced Theater People, a show interviewing Tony winners and rising stars. Broadway attracted millions of people each year, and made over a billion dollars in revenue. But he needed a new creative outlet, and podcasting seemed the perfect medium. Hinds-a bespectacled, beguiling superfan-had written a couple books, and had a good job.
“If we’re going to have laughter, and make light of a situation that’s horrible-never the victim-then I’m going to respect the story. But when nobody did, Hinds thought: why not do this myself? He assumed there’d be plenty more shows to fill the void. One, called Downstage Center, stood out. Back in 2009, the Broadway obsessive was spending an hour commuting to work from his home in New York City-just enough time to tune into interview pods with his favorite stage stars. Patrick Hinds has been into podcasts for a long time. Prefer to listen instead? We add new stories regularly to the podcast Timber-Stories for Podcasters.
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