My writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker's "Daily Shouts", The Paris Review “Daily,” McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Believer, The Rumpus, Columbia Global Reports, The Brooklyn Eagle and elsewhere.
I work as Head of Development and a Producer at Best Case Studios.
I’ve previously worked at Freakonomics Radio, Penguin Random House Audio, and The New York Daily News. I graduated from the MA Political Reporting program at Columbia Journalism School.
I co-edited I Am Code, and directed Werner Herzog reading the audiobook. I wrote about directing Herzog for LitHub here, and the NY Times wrote about it here.
I am a senior-producer and co-writer on What Could Go Wrong? hosted by the screenwriter of Contagion Scott Z. Burns, featuring Steven Soderbergh, Laurence Fishburne and others for Audible.
I produced and co-wrote this documentary podcast about Sylvester, the Queen of Disco for Spotify and co-wrote and co-produced Fallen Angels for iHeart Radio, which went to number 2 on iTunes, and won a Signal Award for Best Writing. I executive produced and co-wrote We Were All Rooting For You and The Thin Line for Audible, and co-executive produced Jakob’s Point starring Emily Deschanel and Ken Leung, also for Audible. I executive produce Fighting Words with George M. Johnson for iHeart Radio.
I am a co-founder of BruceCo. — our robot Bruce was on the Tonight Show.
I wrote a World War II Christmas Musical with Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit and Hana Haley. Watch it: Merry Christmas, Mr. Fields. Or listen to it on Spotify.
I was a founding member of Harlem Shakes.
I wrote this song with Passion Pit, Mark Ronson, and A$AP Ferg for the Ghostbusters movie.
Thanks,
Email: Brk2122@columbia.edu
Twitter: @Brentkatz_