Julie Piñero is an award-winning Puerto Rican audio producer and performer with a track-record in adapting comedy stage performances into award-winning audio formats.

 

In 2024, she won the Audio Nonfiction Award at the Tribeca Festival for Delejos, a comedic exploration of grief and one of Vogue’s “Best Podcasts of the Year”. The show was adapted from her award-winning solo show of the same name, profiled by Playbill, Broadway World, and LA Times. 

 

In 2023, she produced and story-edited Rob Reiner’s podcast, Who Killed JFK? which won a Signal Award and reached #1 on Apple Podcasts. The same year, her solo stage performance “Hum” was profiled by the Smithsonian Channel and adapted into an audio story for the CBC’s Love Me series.

Julie has produced podcasts for Audible, The Second City, the New York Times and is currently Executive Producer on Boysober, a podcast she sold and developed for iHeart.

 

Her live comedy storytelling show Afters explores the recurring theme of grief that is a through-line in Julie’s work​.

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Prior to podcasts, Julie was a video journalist at Huffpost and Thrillist, where she produced "Food/Groups", an award-winning travel series profiling American cities by regional dishes that define them.

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She started her career in writers rooms at "The Late Show with David Letterman", "Saturday Night Live" and "Maya and Marty".

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When she's not working, she like to swim laps, play guitar, dance salsa and try every last slice of pizza the city has to offer.