Lyric Bowditch

Lyric Bowditch is a Podcast and Live Event Producer at the iDeas Lab at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. With a focus on storytelling, Lyric also offers independent podcast/live event consulting, development, and production services. Forthcoming projects include an interview series on election trust research for the University of California San Diego, an audio documentary for BBC Radio 4, and a narrative limited series that placed runner-up in RESONATE’s 2025 Pitch Party competition.

Previously, Lyric served as the Executive Producer of House of SpeakEasy, where she led the team behind the critically-acclaimed literary live storytelling show Seriously Entertaining, including two co-productions with The New Yorker. Other prior freelance roles include executive producer of the World Monuments Fund 60th Anniversary Summit, producer for the podcasts HISTORY This Week and The Messy Parts, and scriptwriter for National Park After Dark.

Lyric spent four years as a full-time staffer at the Freakonomics Radio Network, where she produced both weekly conversation podcasts and multi-voice narrative shows, including No Stupid Questions and People I (Mostly) Admire. She developped the Freakonomics limited series Off Leash — which was “highly recommended” by The New Yorker and one of CBC Radio’s “best podcasts of 2022.” She also served as the Freakonomics Radio Network’s video editor.

Originally from Baltimore, Lyric grew up in Cairo, Egypt (2006-2016) and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. in English/French comparative literature and a minor in computer science from Barnard College in New York City, where she served as editor of the Columbia Daily Spectator’s long-form magazine The Eye.