Meet Our Projects
The 2019 Podcast Academy Cohort consists of six projects (three fiction/three non-fiction) and seven participants, all of which are NYU alumni. ​
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We're excited to introduce you to all of them. Be sure to follow this blog to keep up on each projects' progress.
Fiction
The Florida Man Chronicles
Esteban Bailey
Tisch School of Arts
Born in Miami and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Esteban graduated from NYU Tisch in May 2018 with a major in Cinema Studies and a minor in Film Production. For the past four years, he has been working as a freelance editor for different media companies and as a script consultant on two different feature length documentaries, working for Martin Scorsese and Darren Aronofsky as an intern in their respective production companies.
Justice
School of Professional Studies
Justice received their MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2013. They have screened work at galleries and festivals including OUTFest, IndieGrits, FLEX festival, Third Eye Festival, and featured on OUT.com and Papermag. They have performed at the Peabody Essex Museum, the Wythe Hotel, Upright Citizens Brigade, the Superchief Gallery, New England Conservatory, and Illuminus Boston.
The City Below
Celine Snippe
Tisch School of Arts
Celine Snippe is a playwright, lyricist, and librettist, born and raised in The Netherlands. She recently graduated with an MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from Tisch. Her work was performed at venues such as Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater and Two River Theater. In her second year at NYU, she worked on her full-length show The Place Between, a Lovecraftian horror musical. She penned lyrics and book for her first musical, Free Solo, which premiered at the Hen and Chickens Theatre in London as part of the Camden Fringe Festival (2017) and was part of the Take Note Festival at the Tristan Bates Theatre (2017), and received a full production at the Drayton Arms Theatre (2018), and was a participant in the BEAM Showcase, produced by Mercury Musical Developments at Theatre Royal Stratford East (2018).
Win the Wedding
Caroline Casey
Tisch School of Arts
Caroline Casey is a Boston bred writer and actor who loves a good story. Caroline graduated from Tisch in 2014 with a BFA in Drama & English, a degree that continues to spark the part of her that daydreams. Caroline's favorite things include Book Club, timeless high heels, and a mezcal lemonade.
Nonfiction
The Vacationeers
Maya Millett
Journalism Institute
Maya Millett is a nonfiction writer and editor living in Brooklyn. She received a master's degree in journalism from New York University, where she studied cultural reporting and criticism. For five years, Maya was the senior book editor and animation producer at StoryCorps. While there, she produced nearly 20 animated shorts, for which she earned two Emmy award nominations, as well as Peabody and Columbia-duPont awards. She also edited three StoryCorps books, one of which she co-authored with StoryCorps founder Dave Isay, all published by The Penguin Press.
Since 2016, Maya has been working independently in the publishing and podcast worlds. Clients include Teen Vogue, WNYC, Well-Read Black Girl, and gender rights activist Jodie Patterson. Before moving to New York in 2009, Maya spent several years in Chicago working as an archive researcher for Johnson Publishing Company (Ebony and Jet magazines) and at the African American oral history project The HistoryMakers. Maya is also the creator of Race Women, a multi-platform historical justice archive project that honors our earliest Black feminist foremothers.
The Kids Are Not Alright
Beth Chatelain
Tisch School of Arts
A North Dakota native, Elizabeth Chatelain has directed several documentary and narrative shorts including MY SISTER SARAH, winner of the International Documentary Association’s Award for Best Student Documentary and a Student Academy Award Finalist. Her films have screened at festivals across the country and the world, including Interfilm Berlin, Sarasota, IFFBoston, Athens Film + Video and SXSW. She is currently working on her first narrative feature, SUNDOGS, which participated in the Berlinale Script Station, the Hedgebrook Screenwriter's Lab, and was an Academy Nicholl Fellowship Semi-Finalist, Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition Winner and Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition Winner. She holds a BA in Film and Media Culture from Middlebury College, an MFA in Film and Video Production from UT-Austin, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from NYU-Tisch.
Silicon City
Cary McClelland
Tisch School of Arts
Cary McClelland is a writer, filmmaker, lawyer, and human rights advocate whose work has taken him around the world. His award-winning film Without Shepherds documented the lives of six different people fighting extremism in Pakistan. His newly released book, Silicon City: San Francisco in the Long Shadow of the Valley, creates a portrait of a city transformed by the tech industry and was chosen as one of Stanford University's Three Books of 2019.
