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Dylan Marron - digital creator and producer - has racked up millions of views and worldwide support for his work promoting social justice. From his acclaimed Every Single Word video series highlighting the lack of diversity in Hollywood to his web series Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Marron has explored some of today's biggest hot topic issues. Yet, according to some strangers on the internet, Marron is a moron, a beta male, or, according to one commenter, a talentless hack. Rather than running from this online vitriol, Marron began a social experiment in which he invited his detractors to chat on the phone - and those conversations revealed surprising and thought-provoking insights. Now, Marron retraces his journey through a project that connects adversarial strangers in a time of unprecedented division.
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Dylan Marron is the host and creator of the critically acclaimed podcast Conversations with People Who Hate Me, a social experiment that connects adversarial internet strangers through phone calls. He recently joined the writing staff of the Emmy-winning hit television series Ted Lasso. Dylan is also the voice of Carlos on the international podcast sensation Welcome to Night Vale, an alum of the New York Neo-Futurists theater company, and the creator of Every Single Word, a video series that edits down popular films to feature only the words spoken by people of color. As a writer and correspondent at Seriously. TV, Dylan created, hosted, and produced Sitting in Bathrooms with Trans People, Shutting Down Bullsh*t, and the Unboxing series. Conversations with People Who Hate Me was selected as a Podcast Pick by USA Today and the Guardian, named "the timeliest podcast" by Fast Company, won a Webby Award, and was the subject of Dylan's 2018 TED Talk, "Empathy Is Not Endorsement. "He lives in Brooklyn, with his husband, Todd.
