I wrote and executive-produced the podcast RORSCHACH: MURDER AT CITY HALL based on my thesis at j-school about a shooting at NYC City Hall in 2003, for iHeart Radio. I was in High School when it happened, and I watched as it was forgotten, even by most of my fellow New Yorkers. Trying to tell this story respectfully and as fully as possible, to preserve the memory of what happened, understand the complex men at its center, and give a larger insight into the city at a turning point, in the aftermath of 9/11, has been one my most long-gestating and meaningful projects so far. It’s hosted by Jamal Jordan, with music by Tunde Adebimpe of TV on the Radio and Wilder Zoby, and features an array of incredible New York accents that you will have to hear to believe. I talked to City and State about it.

My writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker's "Daily Shouts", The Paris Review “Daily,” McSweeney's Internet Tendency, The Believer, The Rumpus, Columbia Global Reports, The Brooklyn Eagle and elsewhere.

I work as Head of Development and a Producer at Best Case Studios.

I’ve previously worked at Freakonomics Radio, Penguin Random House Audio, and The New York Daily News. I graduated with an MA in Political Reporting from Columbia Journalism School.

I am judge for the 2026 Signal Awards.

I co-edited I Am Code (Hachette) and directed Werner Herzog reading the audiobook. I wrote about directing Herzog for LitHub here, and the NY Times wrote about it here.

I am a senior-producer and co-writer on What Could Go Wrong? hosted by the screenwriter of Contagion Scott Z. Burns, featuring Steven Soderbergh, Laurence Fishburne and others for Audible.

I produced and co-wrote this documentary podcast about Sylvester, the Queen of Disco for Spotify and co-wrote and co-produced Fallen Angels for iHeart Radio, which went to number 2 on iTunes, and won a Signal Award for Best Writing. I executive produced and co-wrote We Were All Rooting For You and The Thin Line for Audible (also a Signal Award winner), and co-executive produced Jakob’s Point starring Emily Deschanel and Ken Leung, also for Audible. I executive produce Fighting Words with George M. Johnson for iHeart Radio. I was a producer on Grim Death (Cory Michael Smith) and The Chronicles of Astrimos (Darren Criss, Maya Hawke, Alfred Molina, Azhar Khan) for Echoverse.

I am a co-founder of BruceCo. — our robot Bruce was on the Tonight Show.

I wrote a World War II Christmas Musical with Michael Angelakos of Passion Pit and Hana Haley. Watch it: Merry Christmas, Mr. Fields. Or listen to it on Spotify.

I was a founding member of Harlem Shakes.

I wrote this song with Passion Pit, Mark Ronson, and A$AP Ferg for the Ghostbusters movie.

See you in the music,

Email: Brk2122@columbia.edu

Twitter: @Brentkatz_