Emily Reeves
Emily is available for
I'm looking to join a team of thoughtful and creative audio makers! I'm also available for freelance reporting and podcast production work.- Editing
- Producing
- Recording
- Reporting
- Scripting
- Voice
- Writing
About Emily
I'm an audio producer and storyteller with experience creating podcasts and narrative audio stories.
I'm drawn to stories that have humor and nuance—ones that give us a window into something universal through a personal narrative. As a former performer and theatre artist, I spent years studying the art of captivating an audience’s attention and use this experience to create sound-rich and engaging audio pieces like Aisha (2023 Tribeca Festival's Independent Audio Fiction Award).
I'm a recent graduate of the Salt Institute for Documentary Stories, where I created a documentary about the opioid crisis through the story of a Moby-Dick-inspired blues opera about heroin addiction. The piece won a Silver Award, the highest award for the category, for Best Student Documentary at the 2023 New York Festivals Radio Awards.
To listen to my portfolio, visit www.emilyreevesaudio.com
Emily's Portfolio
I produced and edited a special 12-part podcast series for Vital Voices, the non-profit organization co-founded by Hillary Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Melanne Verveer. They work with women leaders in areas of economic empowerment, women's political participation, and human rights. For this series, I adapted audio recordings from their Global Voices Festival into a podcast format.
In "Footprints," join Tour Guide Dugan on a walk through history and his mind.
I reported, produced, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
Music: “In Paler Skies" by Blue Dot Sessions
The Colby College Woodsmen keep the skills and traditions of lumberjacking alive.
I reported, produced, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
In this two-minute Vox Pop, producer Emily Reeves takes to the streets of Portland, Maine to explore our relationship with work.
I reported, produced, hosted, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
Music: Our Only Lark by Blue Dot Sessions and "Overworked, Underpaid" by Zap Pow
I produced, cohosted, and edited Across the Pod: A Love Island Podcast, a transatlantic pop-culture podcast that ran twice a week during seasons.
I managed all pre- and post-production for the podcast, including creating the show art, theme song, segment stings, and promotional materials. I managed the show’s production schedule, facilitated remote recording sessions, and maintained the show’s RSS and social media.
In two seasons, we organically grew the audience to ~1k listens per episode and created connections with so many amazing listeners!
We ended the podcast in 2023 in order to make room for our other professional goals.
Instagram / Website / The Ringer Article that features the podcast /
In East Lansing, Michigan, an outburst of violence at the local high school — and the discovery of a gun — leads to a community reckoning over school safety, racial equity, and the role of police in schools.
Producer and Host: Emily Reeves Sound Engineer: Cory Choy Original Theme Music by Regan Sprenkle Additional Music from Blue Dot Sessions Cover Art by Cole Witter
Playwright Michael Gorman has been writing and rewriting a series of plays about the opioid epidemic for over two decades. Producer Emily Reeves tells the story of his epic artistic quest that spans from theaters to job sites to a recovery center in Augusta, Maine.
I reported, produced, hosted, edited, and mixed/mastered this piece.
Credits: Original music by Alex Mejia. Archival footage courtesy of The La MaMa Archives/Ellen Stewart Private Collection, and The Forty Hour Club. “Welcome to La MaMa” from La MaMa Cantata courtesy of the Elizabeth Swados Estate.
Tribeca Festival 2023 Independent Audio Fiction Award
Aisha, a Palestinian girl in Gaza City, longs for freedom and safety - without having to give up her cultural and religious identity to the Israeli-American aid worker that wishes to "save" her. Deep below the surface, in a smuggling tunnel, a new Underground Railroad, she dreams of another path, another way.
For this piece, I worked as an Associate Producer and worked on the script.
I produced and hosted this episode for the Queens Memory Podcast, the Queens Museum's Oral History show. This ten-episode season, "Our Major Minor Voices," shares stories from Queens' diverse Asian American communities. Each episode of this season featured a different community of Asian descent and was produced in both English and the native language of that community.
In this bonus episode, I interviewed Elias Ravin, the podcast's composer. We discussed the unique challenges of composing for podcasts, learned about his process as he respectfully incorporated elements of each culture’s music into the score, and asked the most important question of all: why are podcasts so obsessed with marimbas?
Our conversation is interwoven with Elias’s compositions so we can hear what he’s describing moment-to-moment. I designed the episode specifically so both people with music theory knowledge and those with none could enjoy it.
I produced, hosted, and assembled this piece in Adobe Audition.
Experience
Skills
- Acting
- Voice Coaching
- Tape Syncs
- Story Editing
- Sound Design
- Social Media
- Show Development
- Scrubbing and Audio Editing
- Research
- Reporting
- Producing
- Marketing
- Logistics and Coordination
- Interviewing
- Hosting
- Field Recording
- Field Producing
- Fact Checking
- Booking
- Voiceover
Equipment
- ProTools
- Adobe Audition
- GarageBand
- Zoom H5
- Shure MV7
- iZotope RX 10 Standard
- AT897 Shotgun Microphone
Previous Work
- Partnerships Associate at Glassbox Media (09/30/23)