Genevieve Sponsler
Lead Senior Producer & Senior Director
Genevieve Sponsler is the Lead Senior Producer & Senior Director at PRX Productions. At PRX, she has led productions for Smithsonian magazine, New York Botanical Garden, Quanta magazine, the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission (including Ambie-nominated And Nothing Less), John Templeton Foundation (Ambie-nominated How God Works), Fidelity National Financial, Cambridge Associates, Ragamala Dance Company, and more. A writer, producer, editor, and director, Genevieve is a versatile leader who can work across different styles of podcasts, from multi-voice narratives to single-voice personal stories. She has worked at PRX since 2007, and understands how podcast and broadcast can work together, and how to create successful shows for both. Genevieve also runs PRX Remix, PRX’s SiriusXM and broadcast service that features podcasts and documentaries.
Outside of PRX, Genevieve worked as a live-theater producer for The Moth’s StorySLAMs in Boston for five years. In 2017, she designed the first podcast course at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Communications and taught it for six years. She also programs shows for WCNY Community FM, where she voices promos and underwriting spots.
She started her career writing event reviews as an intern for Washingtonpost.com’s CityGuide, gathered sound on Capitol Hill for Talk Radio News Service, and was a production assistant for Making the Band 3.