About
Sara McCrea is a Brooklyn-based audio producer, writer, and media strategist from Boulder, Colorado. She currently leads podcast strategy and development at Random House Publishing Group, working across imprints including Random House, Hogarth, One World, Ballantine, Del Ray, and Dial.
Sara wrote and produced the award-winning series "McCartney: A Life in Lyrics" (Pushkin Industries + iHeart) a 24-episode songwriting masterclass and biography compiled from conversations between poet Paul Muldoon and Paul McCartney. The show was named a best podcast of the year by Time, Apple, Amazon, and the Financial Times.
Her other audio production credits include:
- "How To!" (Slate)
- “A Slight Change of Plans” with Maya Shankar (Pushkin)
- “The TED AI Show” (TED Audio Collective)
- "Voices in the River" (Independent, Signal Award winner)
- “The January 6th Tapes” (Pushkin)
- “Your Undivided Attention” (Center for Humane Technology)
- “The Introvert’s Survival Guide” with Aparna Nancherla (Audible)
- “Unroyal” by Sarah Lyall (Pushkin)
- "Talk Easy" with Sam Fragoso
- "Inside Voice" by Lake Bell (Pushkin)
- “The Antidote” (American Public Media)
- “Moment of Um” (American Public Media)
- “The Slowdown” with Ada Limón (American Public Media)
She has also written features and essays for Boulder Weekly and reported for The Atlantic’s COVID Tracking Project. She has served on selection committees for The Nonfiction Hotlist and AudioFlux.
Sara researches the relationship between narrative form, media ecologies, and environmental change, in part with the Institute for Climate Sound and Society at metaLab [at] Harvard. She was a 2023-2024 scholar in the New School of the Anthropocene, a London-based environmental humanities collective.
In 2023 Sara founded the Early Career Audio Collective (ECAC), which provides resources and mutual aid to emerging radio and podcast creators. The group has more than 500 members from around the world. You can join the collective here.
Sara graduated from Wesleyan University’s College of Letters, an interdisciplinary humanities program, in 2021.
