Exclusive: In some big podcasting news, Serial Productions, creator of hit podcasts Serial and S-Town, has hired writer-producer and former film director Neil Drumming as its new managing editor.
Drumming will lead the expansion of Serial Productions’ development slate, recruiting producers, writers and reporters
to develop fiction and non-fiction podcasts. He will be working closely with Alissa Shipp, who develops Serial’s film and TV
projects, and Serial’s rep UTA to create fiction podcasts.
Drumming joins from This American Life, where he produced projects with filmmakers and writers including Adam Mansbach (Barry), Scott Brown (Castle Rock), and Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live). In 2017, he produced the segment What You Don’t Know with filmmaker Lulu Wang, which was an inspiration for Golden Globe-winner The Farewell. Drumming also won a Peabody Award for his work as an editor on the S-Town podcast.
“Five years ago, with the release of Serial, we...
Drumming will lead the expansion of Serial Productions’ development slate, recruiting producers, writers and reporters
to develop fiction and non-fiction podcasts. He will be working closely with Alissa Shipp, who develops Serial’s film and TV
projects, and Serial’s rep UTA to create fiction podcasts.
Drumming joins from This American Life, where he produced projects with filmmakers and writers including Adam Mansbach (Barry), Scott Brown (Castle Rock), and Sasheer Zamata (Saturday Night Live). In 2017, he produced the segment What You Don’t Know with filmmaker Lulu Wang, which was an inspiration for Golden Globe-winner The Farewell. Drumming also won a Peabody Award for his work as an editor on the S-Town podcast.
“Five years ago, with the release of Serial, we...
- 2/21/2020
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
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