- Third Coast Festival
- Navy Pier
- 848 East Grand
- Chicago, Illinois
- 60611-3509
- 312-948-4682
- info@thirdcoastfestival.org
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Johanna Zorn
Johanna Zorn, executive director and founder of the Third Coast Festival, has been committed to the development of contemporary audio culture for nearly three decades. Primarily in conjunction with Chicago Public Radio, she has produced a wide variety of acclaimed programs including Airplay, a newsmagazine for teenagers, and Studio A, a general interest daily talkshow. In the 1990’s, she became the executive producer of Chicago Matters, an award-winning annual public affairs series exploring topics of vital concern to the greater Chicago community. In 2009, she led efforts to transform the TCF into an independent media arts organization.
Julie Shapiro
Julie Shapiro is Third Coast's Artistic Director, and has been with the project since its inception in 2000. Previous to that, she spent years behind record store counters across the country before ending up in North Carolina, where she worked at the the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, helped launch an experimental music/film festival, Transmissions, and produced Storylines Southeast - a survey of seminal literature from the region. These days, Shapiro teaches radio documentary in Chicago and beyond, keeps a blog about sound, and occasionally finds the time to produce stories for the public radio airwaves, including APM's The Story and the BBC.
Katie Mingle
Katie Mingle joined the Third Coast Festival staff in June, 2010. She produces Re:sound, hosts the Third Coast Podcast, and develops features for the website. We first noticed her in 2007 when she won our Best New Artist Award for The Dead Can’t Do You Nothin’. Before getting into radio, Katie painted houses and hung out on porches in the great state of North Carolina, where she says, "half of her heart still lives". Previous to joining the Third Coast staff, Katie taught audio editing and documentary skills to high school students and produced her own work, much of which has aired on Re:sound. To hear her work, check out her website.
Gwen Macsai
Gwen Macsai is host of Re:sound, the Third Coast Festival's weekly program on WBEZ-FM. An award-winning writer, producer and humorist, Macsai’s radio work has aired on All Things Considered, Morning Edition, and Weekend Edition Saturday. She’s also the creator of the television sitcom What About Joan starring Joan Cusack, and author of Lipshtick, a book of humorous first-person essays.
(Pictured left to right)
Gwen Macsai
Julie Shapiro
Katie Mingle
Johanna Zorn
Board of Directors
Johanna Zorn
President
Lisa Lee
Vice President
Daniel Ash
Director
Michelle Boone
Director
Lee Greenhouse
Director
Lane Vanderslice
Director
