About me
Christy Gressman is the vice president and executive producer of podcasts at Topic Studios, overseeing creative, production, and business strategy. She formerly led audio at The Intercept and was a partner and the executive producer at the fiction-focused podcast network Night Vale Presents, where she oversaw network-wide development, production, and distribution. Christy has also served as producer, executive producer, and/or co-creator of a number of pioneering and critically-acclaimed podcasts, including The Space Within, a thrilling sci-fi mystery starring Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon, Bobby Cannavale, Ellen Burstyn, Michael Stuhlbarg, Shea Whigham, and Carmen Ejogo (Audible), which debuted at #1 on Audible’s charts and is an Audible Best of 2023; 100 Foot Wave Podcast, the companion show to the studio’s Emmy® and PGA-winning HBO big wave surfing series; Not Lost, the acclaimed food and travel show from former Dinner Party Download host Brendan Francis Newnam, a New York Times and Vulture Best Podcast of 2022 (Pushkin Industries, iHeartRadio); Operator (Wondery), about the dramatic rise and fall of the telecommunications company that pioneered live phone sex, which debuted at #1 on Apple's Top Podcasts chart; Somebody (iHeartRadio), with The Intercept and the Invisible Institute, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; the Signal Award-winning Politically Re-Active with W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu (WarnerMedia); Fine Gorilla Person, hosted by Lauren Ober, about Koko the Gorilla (Audible); The Messenger, an extraordinary tale of friendship, lies, betrayal and terrorism (Audible); American ISIS, a portrait of an ordinary American who became a fighter for the Islamic State (Audible); the powerful investigative series Impostors (Spotify); and the groundbreaking fiction series The Orbiting Human Circus (featuring John Cameron Mitchell, Tim Robbins, and Mandy Patinkin), Dreamboy, Adventures in New America, Milky Way Underground, It Makes A Sound, and the upcoming Cancellation Island, from John Cameron Mitchell and Michael Cavadias, starring Holly Hunter. She has an MBA from Yale School of Management, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA in fine arts from the University of Pennsylvania.