jemma 🌹 brown

Jemma Rose Brown is an artist, strategist and curator of cultural programs raised & based in NYC. Her approach is shaped by a decade+ career in podcasts and the audio industry.

Jemma is the General Manager of The Signal Awards and Co-Creator of On Air Fest, the premiere event for audio storytelling. She is the Co-Founder of Cosmophage. Previously, she was the Director of creative agency work x work and a Producer at The Moth. Her projects have been covered widely in Vanity Fair, Wired, Forbes, Rolling Stone & more. Jemma sits on the Advisory Committee of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art.

Alongside her professional work, Jemma’s art practice is in incessant pursuit of intimacy: reaching across the asymptote of human experience to create momentary acts of connection. Jemma utilizes memoir, staged meals and performance to test the boundaries between self and other.

CV

select projects

On Air Fest
2018-2024

Festival Curation & Production

Eggshells
2023

One Woman Show

How To Hold On While Letting Go
2018-2023

Performance and Workshop

Tea Break Time
2023

Performance

The Dinner of Intimacy
2018

Performance

The Dream Sequence
2013

Experiential Design & Storytelling

The Podcast Experience
2023

Experiential Design & Programming

Object of Sound
2021-2022

Podcast

Time Melt
2020

Book

First the Void, Second the Spark
2019

Performance

A New Vocabulary for Proximity
2019

Book

Custard
2019

Film & Installation

Festival of Fire
2017

Experiential Design & Cooking

 
 

CV
2024     General Manager, The Signal Awards
2017-2024        Director, work x work 
   Select clients: Sonos, MoMA, Spotify, NPR, WNYC, Meta, Target
2017-Present     Director of Programming, On Air Fest
2019-2020 Curator, Audio Storytelling, Centre Phi
2014-2017        Producer, The Moth
2013             Studio Assistant, Cecilia Vicuña  

Press
Wired ‘Your Favorite Podcast Is Probably an ‘Experience’ Now’
Forbes ‘On Air Fest Continues To Push Audio Boundaries’
Print Mag ‘What Matters to Jemma Brown by Debbie Millman’

Residencies
2022 Pocoapoco Oaxaca, Mexico
2019 Land Falls Franklin, NY
2018 Noise Attic Lima, Peru

Appearances
2024             Juror, Tribeca X
2023 Juror, Tribeca
2021 Guest Lecturer, The New School
2018 Mentor, SVA Visual Narrative Program