Spooked Creators & Guests

Glynn Washington is the host and executive producer of Snap Judgment, the radio, podcast, stage, television show distributed by WNYC.

Erika Lantz is a senior producer and host at Rococo Punch.Previously, Lantz was a producer in WBUR's iLab, where she made Kind World, a radio series and podcast that tells intimate stories about people who have profoundly affected one another. She started her career at KFAI in Minneapolis before becoming a producer for APM's "Performance Today."Lantz's work has aired on WNYC's "Snap Judgment," NPR's "All Things Considered" and "Here & Now," and on WBUR and CBC.

Teo Ducot is a producer of Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked podcast.

Mark Ristich is an executive producer of the Snap Judgment Podcast.

Chris Hambrick is a producer. Currently, she is a podcast editor for KQED. Previously, she was the Senior Producer for the "Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked" podcast. She has also reported and produced for KALW Radio in San Francisco.

Erick Yáñez is a multimedia producer and storyteller. He co-founded and produces the horror fiction podcast Psicofonías. Currently, he is a podcast producer for Himalaya Latinoamérica.Previously, Yáñez worked at a college radio station. He has written about the Mexican podcast industry for Podcastero/as.

Eliza Smith has been working in public radio for 15 years. She has been a reporter, a DJ, a radio playwright, and a producer. She is the lead producer of Spooked.

Annie Nguyen is a producer of Snap Judgment Presents: Spooked podcast.

Marisa Dodge is the digital producer for Snap Judgment and Spooked.

Zoë Ferrigno is an editor and reporter. Currently, she is a producer for Snap Judgment and Snap Judgment Spooked.Ferrigno received her B.A. in English from the University of Washington and her M.A. in Journalism from the University of California Berkeley.

Octavia Sexton is a storyteller and educator. In addition to telling folktales, ghost tales, personal stories and student stories, she teaches writing, storytelling, and drama through workshops and classroom sessions.

Ray Christian is a host of the What's Ray Saying podcast.

Lopaka Kapanui is a native Hawaiian storyteller, author, actor, kumu hula, and cultural practitioner. He hosts tours of some of the darkest, spookiest places on the island of O‘ahu for his company, Mysteries of Hawai'i.

Laura Packer is a professional storyteller. She also coaches, writes, consults, and speaks. She is the founder and owner of the professional storytelling company Thinkstory.

Lane Wilcken is a cultural tattoo artist and advocate for the the critically endangered practice of "batok" or cultural tattoos of the Philippines. He describes his practice as spiritual, and he includes meditation and prayer before composing batok arrangements according to the designs and symbols of a person's specific ethnic group and their personal experience. He tattoos during a ritual that includes chants, food offerings, and prayers, using hand-tapped tattoo techniques.Wilcken's first book, "Filipino Tattoos: Ancient to Modern," was published in 2010. His second book, "The Forgotten Children of Maui: Filipino Myths, Tattoos, and Rituals of a Demigod," was published in 2013.

Daniel Noah is a film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for producing the horror films "A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night," released in 2014, and "The Greasy Strangler," released in 2016. He is the co-founder of production company SpectreVision, which focuses on genre films with a unique vision. He has also written and directed several short films, including "The Burden of Other People’s Thoughts," released in 2013.