CONTACT • MEDIA • APPEARANCES
CONTACT • MEDIA • APPEARANCES
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Award-Winning Author • Speaker • Comedian • Voice Artist
Al Isaacs is the GOLD Medal-winning author of Finding Mary Smith, the remarkable true story of discovering at age 52 that he had been adopted—and following DNA, family secrets and a decades-old music mystery across the Atlantic to the mother he never knew.
Available for podcasts, television and radio, author events, libraries, bookstores, literary festivals, genealogy and adoption programs, and speaking engagements.
LET'S DO SOMETHING INTERESTING.
MEDIA & PODCASTS
Podcasts • Radio • Television
• Print & Online Media
AUTHOR & SPEAKING
Libraries • Bookstores • Literary Festivals • Genealogy & Adoption Organizations
VOICE & PERFORMANCE
Voice-Over • Audiobook Narration • Comedy • Improv • Hosting
FOR PRODUCERS & PODCAST HOSTS:
Need a Place to Start?
Al’s story can go in a lot of directions. Here are a few conversations that tend to get interesting very quickly.
FAMILY SECRETS & IDENTITY
What happens when you discover at 52 that everyone knew you were adopted—except you?
THE DNA DETECTIVE STORY
How consumer DNA, genealogy and Search Angels helped unravel a family mystery more than five decades old.
GRAY-MARKET ADOPTION
False documents, baby brokers and trying to uncover the truth when the official record can't necessarily be trusted.
FINDING MARY
Following an obscure 1968 talent competition and a forgotten folk singer across the Atlantic to the mother he never knew.
WRITING THE IMPOSSIBLE MEMOIR
How do you write honestly about parents, siblings, secrets, betrayal and forgiveness without turning anyone into the villain?
FINDING THE FUNNY
Using humor to tell an emotional true story without diminishing the people—or the pain—at the center of it.
Looking for a different angle? Al is happy to tailor the conversation to your audience.
FINDING MARY SMITH — FOR FILM & TELEVISION
The award-winning true story of a 52-year-old man who accidentally discovers he was adopted—and follows a trail of DNA, family secrets and a decades-old music mystery across the Atlantic to the mother he never knew.
Finding Mary Smith is currently being developed for screen adaptation as a character-driven limited series blending family mystery, drama and humor.
Film/TV rights and adaptation inquiries: Contact Al Isaacs
AS SEEN AND HEARD ON
DNA Confessions
Laugh, Cry, Scream
Conversations With Rich Bennett
The Internal Shift Show
T Time with Theresa
FYI - I Am Damaged
Roots & Branches
Misfits Among Us