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Seth Porges is an American director, producer, journalist, and television commentator. [1] He produced, wrote, and co-directed the feature documentary Class Action Park , [2] which premiered as the number one movie on HBO Max in August 2020. [3] In 2014, he additionally wrote and produced a documentary short about Action Park. [4] He also appears on numerous television shows on the History, [5] National Geographic, [6] Discovery, and Travel [7] channels; including more than 40 episodes of Mysteries at the Museum.
Previously, he worked as a senior editor at Maxim magazine, [8] as an editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, as the technology columnist at Bloomberg News [9] and as a writer for TechCrunch . [10] He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism .
Porges has appeared as a guest commentator on television networks such as MSNBC, [11] Fox News, [12] Fox Business, CNN, and CNBC; as well as The Today Show. His writing has appeared in publications such as BusinessWeek , Men’s Health , Men’s Journal and Editor & Publisher . [13]
He is the son of the neuroscientists Stephen Porges and C. Sue Carter, and is the subject of a song by the musician Wesley Willis. [14] In 2009, he received attention as a test pilot on the maiden voyage of an experimental pulse jet-powered carousel. [15] In 2006, he appeared as a contestant on Cash Cab and in 2017 was on the Fox competition show Superhuman, where he displayed his ability to spot art forgeries at a glance [16] . In 2011, he was named as one of "50 Media Power Bachelors" by The New York Observer. [17] and one of Stylecaster's "Top 25 IT Kids of 2011". [18]
