Jonathan MitchellJoined PRX: January 8, 2005
Jonathan Mitchell is a radio producer and composer.
His work has been heard on Studio 360, Radio Lab, Weekend America, Marketplace, Living on Earth, The Next Big Thing, Savvy Traveler, and All Things Considered.
Other past clients have included WNYC, KQED, WBEZ (Chicago Matters), PRI, Hearing Voices, Time Magazine, Antenna Audio, Maxis/Electronic Arts, Nextbook.org, Candide Media, Ben Manilla Productions, and Sirius Satellite Radio.
He was a staff producer for PRI's Fair Game, a nightly public radio variety program which he helped launch, and for which he also composed the theme music. He is the former Senior Producer of Loose Leaf Book Company and the former Creative Director of Beyond Computers, for which he also composed the theme music.
He recently composed the music and created the sound design for Nova's "Astrospies," which premiered on PBS stations in February 2008. He was a member of the production team that created the 2004 Peabody Award-winning episode of Studio 360 which deconstructed Melville's Moby-Dick. His past work also includes the 2004 Golden Reel Award-winning documentary Shades of Gray (co-produced with Ahri Birnbaum), a cell-phone walking tour of Boston hosted by Steven Tyler, and the commercial parodies heard when you turn on the T.V. in the computer games "The Sims" and "The Sims 2."
He studied music composition at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Mills College. He lives in New York City,
