I'm Emma Myhre,
a writer & audio producer.

I make documentary podcasts that connect intimate, textural stories to the big picture.

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I’m a writer and audio producer making documentary podcasts rooted in community with questions that don’t have easy answers.

That work has taken me backstage at the U.S. Open, down gravel roads in rural Iowa, and into overgrown cemeteries.

I love every step of making a podcast. The research rabbit holes and the long conversations that follow. Digging up historically accurate music and sound effects. The painstaking hours it takes to stitch the story together. The thrill of bringing it out in the world.

That’s also why I love being an independent producer. I bring big projects to life while staying close to the story and crafting it with precision.

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To me, a podcast is a place.

It’s a world we enter together.

“…we’re free to try whatever we please…
Hang out heaven’s big and little lamps,
Scatter stars over the canvas sky…
do the thing liberally.”

—The Stage Manager,
Faust, trans. Martin Greenberg

I come from theatre, where I reveled in people bringing their talents together to make… well, anything. I’ve always loved that scrappy, collaborative work of building a world together and taking an audience with us.

That same passion drew me to audio. A voice, a texture of sound, a single musical phrase can open a door and invite listeners somewhere completely new. It’s like a magic trick.

Intimacy is at the heart of my work. I listen for the small, vivid details that make a story feel transportive: the laughter in someone’s breath, the birds outside a Park Slope window in April, the hum of a hairdryer in 1992.

From there, I create shows that are fully imagined and grounded in everyday life. I collaborate closely with interview subjects, experts, and musicians to create experiences listeners can inhabit.

If I’m against anything in podcasts, it’s filling air. I make work you can step into, sit with, and return to.

explore my work—
a. The Okoboji Project
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b. Reflections
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