AndreaSilenzi

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Bio

Andrea Silenzi is an award-winning narrative audio journalist known for her personal brand of storytelling.

Today, she's the Content Director at City Cast, a network of daily local podcasts and newsletters in 13 U.S. cities, where she helps lead editorial strategy for the network. This year she's also been City Cast's acting Director of Social Strategy, leading 13 city teams to embrace original social content as a new editorial product.

She's worked with Spotify's Studio 4 as a Supervising Creative Producer. Before that, she hosted and produced over 60 episodes of The Longest Shortest Time for Stitcher. During her time at the show, she won two Webby Awards for Best Kids & Family Podcast.

She also once hosted a hit show about dating and relationships called Why Oh Why. It was named a best podcast by The New York Times, NPR, Vulture, Esquire, GQ and Apple Podcasts.

Work

City Cast podcast cover art for Denver, Philly, Salt Lake, Chicago, Austin, Twin Cities, and Portland, shown on phonesCity Cast

Content Director & Director of Social Strategy

Led company-wide social vertical in 2026

Hatch Baby

Voiceover Artist, Baby Sleep Guides (2025–Now)

Why Oh Why cover art: three blue text bubbles reading Why, Oh, WhyWhy Oh Why

Creator and Host, Panoply

Illustration of Andrea inside an egg, with golden sperm swimming toward herThe Longest Shortest Time

Host and Producer, Stitcher

My “Single Lady's Guide to Sperm Shopping” series was named a Best of 2019 by The Atlantic

Covers of Spotify original podcasts Andrea worked on: Butt Dial, Fear of Going Outside, Loud: The History of Reggaeton, Forbidden Fruits, The Bridge: 50 Years of Hip Hop (center), Class of 2020 Speaks, Spotify SoundUp, We Said What We Said, and Country ShineSpotify

Supervising Creative Producer, Studio 4

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Podcast Development Manager (2020)

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