Who We Are

Dublin 2019 Organisers

Zoë Comyns

Zoë Comyns

Dublin 2019 Team

Zoë writes and radios and sometimes writes about radio and radios about writers.

Colette Kinsella

Colette Kinsella

Dublin 2019 Team

Colette makes science features and documentaries with her cat, Ted, and sometimes also with humans.

Regan Hutchins

Regan Hutchins

Dublin 2019 Team

Regan Hutchins likes to record birds in the garden. He needs to get out more.

Julien Clancy

Julien Clancy

Dublin 2019 Team

Julien Clancy loves to capture stories for radio and listen to them at The Dublin Story Slam!

Claire Cunningham

Claire Cunningham

Dublin 2019 Team

Claire Cunningham makes programmes about dead composers and live poets and sometimes attempts to record children.

Louise Williams

Louise Williams

Dublin 2019 Team

Louise Williams travels with a microphone and has been spotted everywhere from Nigeria to the Mexican border.

MIRP Board

Ann Heppermann

Ann Heppermann

Board Member
Alex Lewis

Alex Lewis

Board Member

Alex Lewis is a Philadelphia-based independent radio producer and musician.

Thomas Reintjes

Thomas Reintjes

Board Member

Thomas is a Brooklyn-based radio producer, covering science, technology, and all things New York (except Trump).

Katharina Smets

Katharina Smets

Co-founder / Board member

Katharina Smets is an independent radio producer and audio artist for live performance, audio guides and podcasts.

Jonathan Zenti

Jonathan Zenti

Co-founder / Board member

Independent radio producer based in Rome, he won Hearsay GanBéarla in 2016 and he has been finalist at Radiotopia's Podquest in 2016

Eternal thanks to

Ole Fugl Hørkilde

Ole Fugl Hørkilde

MIRP 2017 Creative Director

Ole has produced work for DR and Radio24syv. He is the founder of RadioØen and is a co-founder of Københavns Radiobiograf.

Rikke Houd

Rikke Houd

Co-founder / Board member

Rikke Houd is an awardwinning Danish radio maker working within the field of sound narrative and audio documentary since 1998.

Martin Johnson

Martin Johnson

Co-founder / Board member

Martin Johnson is the creative director at Ljudbang productions in Stockholm and a radio producer, journalist, sound designer and author.

Eleanor McDowall

Eleanor McDowall

Board Member

Eleanor is a senior producer at Falling Tree Productions. She is the series producer of BBC Radio 4’s Short Cuts ans she runs Radio Atlas

Kaitlin Prest

Kaitlin Prest

Co-founder / Board member

Kaitlin originated the concept that became The Heart in 2008, winning Third Coast Gold Award, Prix Italia and Hearsay International