Lyric Bowditch
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About
Lyric Bowditch is an independent journalist, audio storyteller, and live event producer. Her current focus is producing an independent documentary podcast series about the 2016 murder of an Italian graduate student by the Egyptian government, and what the case reveals about authoritarianism, accountability, and international systems of power. The series won second place in RESONATE’s 2025 Pitch Party competition. (You can support the project here.)
Lyric also serves as Executive Producer of the literary nonprofit House of SpeakEasy, where she leads the team behind the monthly live storytelling show Seriously Entertaining at Joe’s Pub, including multiple co-productions with The New Yorker.
Recent audio projects include producing season 2 of the award-winning podcast playing god? for the iDeas Lab at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, as well as its launch event at the Center for Brooklyn History; producing the first-ever HISTORY This Week live podcast episode at The Tenement Museum; and developing The Election Trust Research Podcast for the Center for Transparent and Trusted Elections at the University of California, San Diego. Other prior freelance roles include Executive Producer for the World Monuments Fund 60th Anniversary Summit, producer for The Messy Parts Podcast, and scriptwriter for National Park After Dark.
Lyric spent four years as a full-time staffer at the Freakonomics Radio Network, where she produced both weekly conversation podcasts and multi-voice narrative shows, including No Stupid Questions and People I (Mostly) Admire. She developed the Freakonomics limited series Off Leash — which was “highly recommended” by The New Yorker and one of CBC Radio’s “best podcasts of 2022.” She also served as the Freakonomics Radio Network’s video editor.
Originally from Baltimore, Lyric grew up in Cairo, Egypt (2006-2016) and now lives in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a B.A. in English/French comparative literature and a minor in computer science from Barnard College, where she served as the editor for the Columbia Daily Spectator’s long-form magazine The Eye.
Get in touch at lyricbowditch[at]gmail[dot]com or connect on LinkedIn.