With Being Studios, Podcasting Meets Reality Television
In mid March, Mariana Marroquin logged onto a video call so that producers of a new reality series could walk her through a rough edit of a sensitive scene, which detailed Marroquin’s recent visit to her native Guatemala.
As it played, Marroquin began to weep. “I cried a lot,” she recalled, speaking on a video call a few weeks later. “Because I was happy.
I was so happy.” Why? “It was about listening to my own voice,” she said. “That’s still surreal to me that I can communicate who I am.” Marroquin’s voice is essential, because the show that features her, “Being Trans,” which will release the first of its six episodes on April 28, is a podcast.
The debut effort of Being Studios, a new initiative from Lemonada Media, “Being Trans” follows four transgender cast members as they go about their ordinary lives in and around Los Angeles.
