At Odds: Strangers

In this week’s episode, both of our storytellers find themselves at odds with strangers when their beliefs and understanding of the world collide with someone else’s.

Part 1: As a vegan, Sophie Shrand feels like she’s constantly being judged for her dietary choices.

Part 2: Cillian Dunne sets out to uncover the truth about Panama’s dictatorship, but his sources has a very different version of what happened.

​​Sophie Shrand is an award-winning actor, educator, and producer with degrees in Behavioral Neuroscience and Theatre. Sophie is the Creator and Host of Science With Sophie, a Telly Award-winning science comedy series for girls and everyone. She is Executive Producer at Cool Jacket Productions, Host of streaming series Theory of Awesome, and can be found on social channels like the Museum of Science and Indeed. Sophie has brought science comedy to more than 2 million learners worldwide. As a STEM professional, she researched humans and cocaine, held brains in her hands, created three-story lightning bolts, and worked with skunks! Shrand’s work as an actor, improviser, vocalist, and international speaker spans two decades, stage and screen, and crowds of 3 to 15,000. Sophie has performed improv, musical theatre, and Shakespeare across the country, including the American Repertory Theater and The Second City. Sophie is now in post-production on her newest project, a documentary series in which she drives an electric car from Los Angeles to Boston and back on a coast-to-coast, round-trip journey across the USA.

Cillian Dunne is an Irish author who writes investigative non-fiction. His work has taken him from the streets of south central Los Angeles to interview gang members, to rural Panama to interview members of a former dictatorship regime. For every book he works on, Cillian likes to completely embed himself in the lives of his subjects.

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