andrea silenzi | multimedia producer
Stay up all night! Stare that hotel clerk in the eye!
Screaming: I deny honeymoon! I deny honeymoon!
running rampant into those almost climactic suites
yelling Radio belly! Cat shovel!
–Gregory Corso
EDUCATION
The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, Portland, ME
An intensive 15-week long documentary radio program.Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
Produced Two Weeks, a documentary radio feature / PRX review
Bachelor of Arts
German Studies and the College of Letters
Dual Departmental Honors earned for senior thesis, The End Never Comes: a translation, production and performance of Wolfgang Hildesheimer’s first radio play.
VIDEO
WNYC Culture, Assistant Culture Producer, New York, NY
Food in the City, a look at how we eat in the cityOne video from the series, featured on Gothamist and NY Mag Video:
More Food in the City videos: Julie Powell, Melissa Clark, Peter Hoffman & Michael Lomonaco with Leonard Lopate
Cityscapes, video diaries from 4 nyc architects, Co-ProducerOne video from the series, shot by architect Stephen Cassell:
Street Shots / profiles of 6 nyc street photographers, Co-ProducerThe tour de force of the series, a YouTube feature now approaching a half million views:
Michael Jackson Remembered Outside the Apollo
Artist Ernesto Neto Wants To Get Inside Your Nose
More:Dan Graham's Greatest Hits at the Whitney
Racism in Print at the Center for Book Arts
Perspectives: Women, Art and Islam at MoCADA
Take Care of Yourself at the Paula Cooper Gallery
Leonard Lopate Tours the New American Wing at the Met
Picasso's Mosqueteros at the Gagosian Gallery
The Flux Factory is Going Places
Brooklyn Artists Respond to the Waterfalls Guy
After 96 Years, a Press Closes in Brooklyn
Deerhoof Fans Get First Look at Leaked Song
RADIO
Last Night, Right Now, and Beyond Podcast, WNYC Culture, Assistant Producer, New York, NY
Talk to Me Lecture Series Podcast, WNYC Culture, Assistant Producer, New York, NY
WFMU's Seven Second Delay, Jersey City, NJ
Live Monthly Variety Shows at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater, Producer (see recent shows)
The Seven Second Delay Blog
The Metropolitan Diary Thing (1, 2, 3 & 4)
& Occasional On-Air Personality (How Big Is Your Cubicle?; The Great Seven Second Delay Quiz Show & The Three Sets Show)
PRI's Studio 360, New York, NY
Design for the Real World: The Band T-shirt, Producer
Edible Estates, Assistant Producer
Stew (rough cut)
The Blind Boys of Alabama, Simone Dinnerstein & The Film Club (interview prep + rough cut)
Stillwell Avenue Terminal (photos + audio slideshow)
WESU Middletown, Middletown, CT
Andrea's Antique Radio Show (1/2004 - 5/2007)
CONTACT
andreasilenzi at gmail dot com
+ 630 677 6404, cell