Serial Productions Hires This American Life Producer Neil Drumming As Half Of Enlargement Plan
EXCLUSIVE: In some large podcasting information, Serial Productions, creator of hit podcasts Serial and S-City, has employed writer-producer and former movie director Neil Drumming as its new managing editor.
Drumming will lead the growth of Serial Productions’ improvement slate, recruiting producers, writers and reportersto develop fiction and non-fiction podcasts. He shall be working carefully with Alissa Shipp, who develops Serial’s movie and TVtasks, and Serial’s rep UTA to create fiction podcasts.
Drumming joins from This American Life, the place he produced tasks with filmmakers and writers together with Adam Mansbach (Barry), Scott Brown (Citadel Rock), and Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Evening Dwell). In 2017, he produced the phase What You Don’t Know with filmmaker Lulu Wang, which was an inspiration for Golden Globe-winner The Farewell. Drumming additionally gained a Peabody Award for his work as an editor on the S-City podcast.
“5 years in the past, with the discharge of Serial, we invented a brand new sort of audio storytelling,” mentioned Serial Productions CEO Julie Snyder. Neil’s coronary heart is find new methods to inform tales, and new expertise to work with, that may broaden the chances in narrative podcasting.”
Drumming, whose directorial debut Huge Phrases launched in 2013 at Slamdance, mentioned, “I’m an enormous fan of everybody already working with Serial. I feel we’re the very best at what we do. I can’t wait to see how we will proceed to innovate by increasing the place we discover tales and collaborators.”
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