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RideShare Season Two

"You're a stranger, so who are you going to tell?" RideShare explores what happens when you actually talk to your Uber driver.

RideShare is a new web series that takes you inside the car and inside the world of driving for ridesharing services like Uber and Lyft. Created by real-life drivers and passengers, each episode is completely improvised by Chicago comedians. Meaningful human connection can happen in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Especially in the digital era where it is so easy to forgo any and all direct contact with other people, our show is a reminder that when you let someone in, even for five minutes, it can change your life.

Season Two is comprised of four episodes. The total runtime for all four episodes is 29:49. A list of episodes and associated runtimes and start times in the submission video is below:

1. "Patience"
Runtime: 08:54
Start time: 00:00:00

2. "Moose"
Runtime: 07:19
Start time: 08:53

3. "Dog Things"
Runtime: 05:17
Start time: 16:12

4. "The One Who Made It"
Runtime: 08:20
Start time: 21:29

  • Katie Hunter
    Director
    RideShare Season One
  • Katie Hunter
    Writer
    RideShare Season One
  • Ian Michael Smith
    Writer
    RideShare Season One
  • Katie Hunter
    Producer
    RideShare Season One
  • Jeff Irlbeck
    Producer
    RideShare Season One
  • Ian Michael Smith
    Producer
    RideShare Season One
  • Jeff Irlbeck
    Key Cast
    "Driver"
    RideShare Season One
  • Elisabeth Del Toro
    Key Cast
    "Taylor"
  • Ryan Jozaitis
    Key Cast
    "Dog Owner"
  • Leah Morrow
    Key Cast
    "Lena"
  • Chris Fowler
    Key Cast
    "Charlie"
  • Lauren Baker
    Key Cast
    "Paige"
    RideShare Season One
  • Project Type:
    Web / New Media
  • Genres:
    Comedy, Drama
  • Runtime:
    29 minutes 49 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    June 6, 2017
  • Production Budget:
    250 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    United States
  • Country of Filming:
    United States
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    GoPro Hero 4 Silver
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16.9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Katie Hunter

Katie Hunter is a writer, actress, and comedian who hails from Kansas City and pays rent in Chicago. Katie is best known for writing the internationally-produced play www.SelfStory.com (2008 International
Thespian Society Playwright Award, 2009 Young Playwright’s Inc Write-A-Play Award). Her work has been performed Off-Broadway at Cherry Lane Theater, and was published in Dramatics magazine. Katie also collaborated with American Theatre Company on their BRIDGE theatre project, crafting plays based on the lives of Chicago high school students.

As an actress, Katie has had the privilege of performing throughout Kansas City and Chicago with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Coterie, The New Theatre, Starlight Theatre, Theo Ubique, Mercury Theatre Chicago, and many more. On film, Katie can be seen in the web series Our Cultural Center, Dark County (coming Spring 2018), and in the short film, It's A Sign (coming Fall 2018).

Katie graduated from the University of Chicago and is a proud member of the 25th generation of Off Off Campus.

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Director Statement

We set out to make a show about talking to a stranger. It can be scary. It can be liberating. Meaningful human connection can happen in unexpected ways and in unexpected places. Especially in the digital era where it is so easy to forgo any and all direct contact with other people, our show is a reminder that when you let someone in, even for five minutes, it can change your life.

The dialogue on our show was entirely improvised by the very talent cast of Chicago actors it features. The stories they tell are all based on real passengers picked up by our driver Jeff Irlbeck, and my co-writer Ian Michael Smith who both work as real-life Uber and Lyft drivers. We gave each actor a character, an objective, and a destination and then put them in a car with Jeff for 20 minutes. When we reviewed the footage, we discovered that the stories we originally set out to tell expanded in ways we never could have imagined.