Make-Believe Association

04/22/2026

Congrats to Mikhail Fiksel and Nygel D. Robinson for winning the Webby Award for Best Original Music / Sound Design - People’s Voice for Hamlet! And a million thanks to the Webby judges for honoring Hamlet in the category Experimental & Innovation.

10/15/2025

Hamlet has won four Signal Awards!

Best Voice Acting - GOLD and LISTENER’S CHOICE
Best Scripted Fiction Series - SILVER
Best Sound Design - SILVER

Listen to the award-winning podcast at hamlet.fm.

09/25/2025

HAMLET is a finalist for three Signal Awards! Visit https://vote.signalaward.com/PublicVoting to vote for us in the Limited Series categories of Voice Acting, Sound Design, and Scripted Fiction Series.

08/12/2025

07/20/2025

“…there’s more than darkness in “Hamlet,” and more than despair in its title character. You just need to see the story from the right angle — specifically, his.“

Link in bio to director Jeremey McCarter’s essay in the Times about the timeless and timeliness of HAMLET. Did you hear or experience the play in a new way when listening?

07/09/2025

One month ago tonight, we celebrated the Chicago premiere of HAMLET! We’ll take any excuse to share more photos from the wonderful .lux ✨

Thanks to all who celebrated with us in person, and to all who have listened!

06/30/2025

It’s possible the Most Fun was had at our Chicago premiere of HAMLET. Thank you .lux for capturing the joy of the evening!

www.hamlet.fm

06/26/2025

HAMLET is featured on this week and is a Top Ten show! Thank you for sending us to the top of the fiction chart, and if you haven’t listened, yet, what are you waiting for? https://apple.co/44ofBQ9

06/25/2025

Jeremy McCarter joined Peter and Elizabeth on this week’s episode of to discuss the staying power of HAMLET, the art of adaptation, and what makes our production different. Listen now!

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4G2iYZDEyWzhELxKPWTnRK?si=B6fw4xs9TZKQDR1_ROoQoA

06/17/2025

🎉 Celebrating one week since the launch of HAMLET with these BTS shots from recording!

The first photo depicts the mic rig sound designer Mikhail Fiksel engineered for Daniel Kyri, which included binaural ear mics and a halo rig centered on Kyri’s forehead to stabilize the sound. As he shared with Good Tape, “we are essentially hearing his speech the way we hear our speech. It resonates through the skull.”

Mikhail and team also utilized traditional shotgun mics and lavaliers (pictured in the second photo) to allow for movement and maximize performance.

Also pictured: associate director Sydney Charles embodying the role of listener during a remote session, Mikhail and director Jeremy McCarter at Tightrope recording studio, and musician Eduardo Curley-Carrillo.