about.
Chloe Prasinos is a shape-shifter —
she works across genres and all aspects of audio production.
Sometimes that means:
Developing new shows from inception, and compassionately leading a team across the finish-line on time and under budget.
Making a brick-and mortar museum about New York City's queer history and spending a summer zigzagging across the city to find people's stories to fill it with.
Reporting intricate and highly crafted, long-form audio documentaries.
Directing actors to help discover their best performances and running a room with space for experimentation and play while staying on schedule.
Blending genres to better tell a true story — drawing on the techniques of audio drama to create a way for unrepresented voices to speak out and remain safely in the shadows.
...and so on.
Writer * showrunner * STORY Editor * Director * Reporter * Producer * Sound Designer
teaching.
Chloe led Union Docs' signature weekend intensive, Podcast School.
She has taught at NYU, Princeton, the Levels Up Academy, AIR Media, among others.
Chloe designed and facilitated a 6-week workshop called Walk the Line: How to Make Work Between Genres. This course first appeared on AIR Media's teaching platform, SoundPath.
Check out her webinar for AIR Media: 'Foundations of Audio Fiction.'
Chloe is also available for private 1:1 mentorship sessions via AIR Media's SoundPath.
consulting.
Chloe helps teams make vivid, audio-native, complex, and formally innovative work that stands out in the crowded podcast landscape.
Her extensive long-form narrative experience, both in documentaries and in audio fiction, serves to ground and center collaborators when difficult story decisions inevitably arise.
Chloe coaches writers and talent who do not yet have experience writing for the ear and offers simple tricks to make drafts more conscious of the medium and what it does well. And she offers her hard-earned guidance on serialized structure at both the series and episodic levels.
Chloe's work consistently balances commercial viability with the creative risks that ensure a show breaks through the noise. She brings this experimental spirit to every edit and production meeting; her perspective during the development process ensures that each episode plays with form from the start and pushes the genre's boundaries in some way, big or small.
LET'S
COLLABORATE
Chloe consults for podcasts, radio shows, institutions, and private clients.
* Things you won't learn from Chloe's CV:
In another life, she was a dancer and choreographer.
She performs improv comedy at Magnet Theater.
She performs standup around NYC.
And she choreographed a flashmob with her friend Ayako for a wedding one summer.
values.
Use privilege and power to dismantle oppressive power structures.
Representation matters.
Telling real people's stories is not an inherently good act. Treat people like people, not subjects.
Rest is an important part of the creative process and should be valued. Work smart.
Making good work is always a team sport; each person deserves to feel like a part of the team.
It's easier to be kind than not to.
Prioritize moments of surprise and joy.
Sound is not incidental to making podcasts. Our work should sound beautiful.