jemma 🌹 brown

Jemma Rose Brown is an artist, connector 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 Director of the podcast-focused creative agency work x work and Co-Creator of On Air Fest, the premiere event for audio storytelling. She is Co-Founder of studio Cosmophage. Previously, she was a Producer at The Moth. Her projects have been covered in Vanity Fair, Wired, Forbes & Rolling Stone.

Alongside her professional work, Jemma’s independent art practice engages performance to create environments for intimacy, and test the boundaries between self and other. Her works have been staged at UnionDocs, on Governor’s Island and at Future Space.

CV

select projects

On Air Fest
2018-present

Festival Programming & 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
2017-Present    Director, work x work 
Select clients: Sonos, MoMA, Spotify, NPR, WNYC, Meta, Target 2017-Present     Director of Programming, On Air Fest
2019-2020 Co-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
2023 Juror, Tribeca
2021 Guest Lecturer, The New School
2018 Mentor, SVA Visual Narrative Program