Seth Porges

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] that went viral and is credited with inspiring the park to change its name.[5] He also appears on numerous television shows on the History,[6] National Geographic,[7] Discovery,[8] and Travel[9] channels; including more than 40 episodes of Mysteries at the Museum.[10]

Previously, he worked as a senior editor at Maxim magazine,[11] as an editor at Popular Mechanics magazine, as the technology columnist at Bloomberg News[12] and as a writer for TechCrunch.[13] 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,[14] Fox News,[15] Fox Business, CNN, and CNBC; as well as The Today Show.[16] His writing has appeared in publications such as BusinessWeek, Men’s Health, Men’s Journal and Editor & Publisher.[17]

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.[18] In 2009, he received attention as a test pilot on the maiden voyage of an experimental pulse jet-powered carousel.[19] 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[20]. In 2011, he was named as one of "50 Media Power Bachelors" by The New York Observer.[21] and one of Stylecaster's "Top 25 IT Kids of 2011".[22] He is an expert on the history of pinball.