Sarah Kramer is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentarian whose video, audio and writing have been featured by The New York Times, Time magazine, NPR, HBO and PBS.
Sarah was the second person hired at StoryCorps, a Peabody Award-winning public radio project. As founding senior producer of StoryCorps (2003-2007), she created award-winning public media content, developing StoryCorps’ signature sound and style and also helped build key elements of the interview experience. She and her team produced and edited the first hundred weekly broadcasts for NPR’s Morning Edition; (now one of the longest running series on any NPR news magazine); launched the StoryCorps podcast which runs weekly; created the first book, The New York Times bestseller Listening is an Act of Love (Penguin 2007); and a robust interactive website.
During her time at StoryCorps, she also produced The Ground We Lived On, a radio documentary which received the Third Coast Audio Festival's Listener Impact Award. Sarah's audio credits include executive producer for BRICradio, BRIC’s podcast network, where she was hired to help launch the network and develop the first slate of shows.
Sarah left StoryCorps in 2007 for The New York Times, where she reported and produced narrative-driven work across media, including print, audio, video and interactive pieces. Using her ability to conceive and weave complicated stories using sound, images and writing, Sarah created compelling original web series as well reported front-page stories. Her work garnered various awards, including an Emmy for One in 8 Million and a second Emmy nomination for Coming Out.
In 2013, after 6 years on staff at The Times, Sarah left to pursue a personal project, a film on her father. Period. New Paragraph., which premiered at the Walter Reade Theater at Lincoln Center. Sarah also produced a series of documentaries for TIME magazine’s 100 Photographs project, one of which was featured at LACMA. Sarah’s early documentary credits include field producer, associate producer and researcher on films, including Sundance-award winning Miss America, Emmy-award winning In Memoriam: September 11, 2001 and Ric Burns’ New York: A Documentary Film.
Sarah is a fellow of the Sundance Institute’s New Frontiers Program and has taught at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and The New School.
She holds a BA from Middlebury College and an MS from Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. Sarah lives in Brooklyn with her husband and their two sons. Sarah is currently back at The New York Times, senior story producing video series and enterprise projects.
Email: kramersarah@gmail.com for collaborations, teaching or freelance work.
