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About the house / Sobre nosotros

Meet the desk behind the serial.

Urbanovela is a narrative podcast house at 28 Wilmington Dr in Nutley, New Jersey. We write, cast, record and master serialized series in English and Spanish, and we answer for every episode that leaves the building.

A typed script and a condenser microphone on a walnut desk in the Nutley studio
The desk at 28 Wilmington Dr: scripts are read aloud here before anyone records.

Our account / Nuestra historia

Why a city needs a serial

A producer with a field recorder on a Nutley street corner at dusk

Field tape comes before scripting. The streets are interviewed first.

Urbanovela began from a plain observation: places are usually described in brochures and remembered in stories. A tourism board can list forty attractions and still leave a visitor with nothing to repeat at dinner. A serial gives them something to repeat.

We are based in Nutley, in the part of New Jersey where Spanish and English share the same stoops, shops and radio dials. That is why every series we make is bilingual by design. Each edition is written in its own language by a native writer, so a joke or a rhythm is never lost to translation.

Clients tend to be tourism boards, developers and local brands that have a story older than their marketing. We bill by the series, at a fixed scope, and we put the finished masters in your hands. What we make for you is yours; we keep nothing back for ourselves.

Escribimos en dos idiomas porque la ciudad también habla en dos.

House rules / Reglas de la casa

Four rules the studio keeps

  1. Truth before tone

    Narration is dramatized, facts are not. Every claim in a script is sourced before it is voiced.

  2. Two languages, two drafts

    No edition is a line-for-line translation. Each is written once, in its own language, and read aloud by a native speaker.

  3. Lock, then record

    Taping begins only after you sign off a locked script, so nothing is recorded twice and nothing is billed twice.

  4. Masters are yours

    Scripts and masters transfer on final payment. Our reel shows an excerpt only with your written consent.

Who is in the room / El equipo

Three chairs, one studio

Chair 01 · Writing

The bilingual writers

One English and one Spanish writer draft each episode in parallel, trading pages until the two editions can stand alone and still land on the same final line.

Dos redactores, una sola historia.

Chair 02 · Direction

The producer

Runs your brief interview, casts local voices, directs the recording and answers the phone between eight-thirty and five-thirty, every day of the week.

La voz que contesta el teléfono.

Chair 03 · Sound

The editor

Cuts, scores, mixes and clears music. Delivers broadcast-ready masters with chapter markers and show notes in both languages.

Del micrófono al máster final.

Before the first meeting / Antes de la primera cita

What to bring to the studio

Bring

  • 01Your oldest photograph of the place
  • 02A list of the people who should be heard
  • 03Any site plan, guidebook or planning document
  • 04The one fact you are tired of correcting

Leave with

  • FormatOne of four serial formats, or a case for a fifth
  • PackageA fixed price from $4,860 per series
  • TimelineFive to twelve weeks, dated in writing
  • TermsHalf to open, half on delivery of masters

Please call ahead on (973) 235-9598 so a producer is free to meet you.

Tell us the story your place is missing.

Describe the series you have in mind. We will say which package fits, or say plainly that none does. We reply within one working day, in English or Spanish.

The studio / El estudio

28 Wilmington Dr
Nutley, NJ 07110

Daily 8:30am–5:30pm

info@urbanovela.com