Julie Burstein is a writer, radio host and producer who loves sitting in for Leonard Lopate.
Julie Burstein is the creator and founding executive producer of Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, which won a Peabody Award in 2004. For twenty-five years, Julie has developed, produced, and directed award-winning radio programs such as the nationally broadcast series AT&T Presents Carnegie Hall Tonight, Time Warner Presents The New York Philharmonic, LIVE!, and Riverwalk, Live from the Landing.
Julie is noted for her talents in developing engaging new entertainment programming, her skill at helping talent from other media become effective radio personalities, her leadership of creative teams, and for her on-air presence as a host of music and talk shows for both commercial and non-commercial radio. In addition to extensive experience developing and producing weekly series and documentary specials, Julie Burstein was the first arts reporter for WHYY-FM in Philadelphia.
Throughout her career, Julie Burstein has been dedicated to exploring and presenting a broad range of culture on radio. She has directed live jazz performances on Riverwalk: Live from the Landing, produced Mostly Meshugah! The Music and Comedy of Mickey Katz, hosted by Katz's son Joel Grey, and reported stories for public radio news and information programs on everything from the contemporary sculpture of Jonathan Borofsky to the art of making Easter Peeps and Bunnies.
Julie Burstein graduated cum laude from Wesleyan University and was the recipient of an Asian Cultural Council Arts Fellowship for study in Japan, 1988-1989. Her work has received numerous awards, including two Peabody Awards.
Julie Burstein appears in the following:
Friday, December 30, 2011
In this Peabody Award-winning show, Kurt Andersen sets sail in search of the great white whale.
Friday, February 18, 2011
The American Icons series gets a brand new installment with a look at "Dallas," the 1980s soap opera about a wealthy oil family. Kansas considers eliminating its Arts Commission, and a Republican state senator jumps to the defense. Kurt talks with the writer James Geary, who reveals the power of ...
Friday, February 18, 2011
This month we're celebrating 360's first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. In the book, scores of America's greatest filmmakers, writers, musicians and artists give readers an inside look at their creative processes and inspiration.
This week Kurt and Julie look at the methods artists have for actually getting to work and getting that work done. They revisit Kurt's conversations with novelist Isabel Allende, painter Chuck Close, playwright Tony Kushner, and sculptor Richard Serra.
Friday, February 11, 2011
It’s the ultimate matchup of human vs. machine: IBM developed a supercomputer named Watson, and to prove the processor’s mettle, it’s going to compete against human champions on Jeopardy. Elizabeth Gilbert describes how an officer from the Department of Homeland Security transformed her from a marriage skeptic into a true believer. And listeners tell Kurt how they get creative with unlikely materials like icicles and coffee grounds.
Friday, February 11, 2011
This month we're celebrating 360's first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. In the book, scores of America's greatest filmmakers, writers, musicians and artists give readers an inside look at their creative processes and inspiration.
This week, Kurt and Julie discuss three different artists who confronted unique challenges and turned them into art: photographer Joel Meyerowitz, poet Donald Hall, and playwright Lynn Nottage.
Friday, February 04, 2011
An Egyptian poet tells Kurt about the precarious position of artists in his embattled country. Debra Granik, director of the Oscar-nominated "Winter's Bone," discusses setting a film in the impoverished Ozark Mountains. And we begin a journey across America, following in John Steinbeck's footsteps.
Friday, February 04, 2011
We're celebrating 360's first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. This week, Julie and Kurt talk about falling in love with the stuff you work with. Featuring stories from Elizabeth Streb, Stanley Kunitz and Ben Burtt.
(To hear our original full-length interviews with those artists go here.)
Friday, January 28, 2011
We're celebrating 360's first decade on the air with the publication of the book Spark: How Creativity Works, by long-time Studio 360 executive producer Julie Burstein. This week, Julie shares childhood stories from Chuck Close, Richard Ford, Mira Nair, and Richard Serra.
(To hear our original full-length interviews with those artists go here.)
Friday, January 28, 2011
We make a prediction about the identity of the anonymous author of O: A Presidential Novel. Kurt Andersen talks with the playwright Jon Robin Baitz about "Other Desert Cities," his new drama about a family in crisis. The director Lisa Cholodenko has a fresh take on the modern family with ...
Friday, June 19, 2009
Federal judge Denny Chin and his team of New York lawyers and judges re-create historic trials. Their most recent effort is a one-hour version of the trial of atomic spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg. With terrorist trials likely around the corner, Chin says he's learned something ...
Friday, August 17, 2007
This summer’s bridge collapse in Minneapolis shook us in a deeper way than other failures of infrastructure. Guest host Julie Burstein talks with structural engineer Guy Nordenson and cultural historian Judith Dupre about why bridges resonate in our collective imagination.
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