Marcie Sillman
Arts and Culture ReporterYear started with KUOW: 1985
Marcie Sillman arrived at KUOW in 1985 to produce the station's daily public affairs program, Seattle After Noon. One year later, she became the local voice of All Things Considered, NPR's flagship afternoon news magazine. After five years holding down the drive-time microphone, a new opportunity arose. Along with Dave Beck and Steve Scher, Marcie helped create Weekday, a daily, two-hour forum for newsmakers, artists and thinkers.
The new century brought new challenges. Marcie and Dave Beck created The Beat, Seattle's only broadcast program to focus specifically on arts and culture. In 2002, after more than 15 years as a daily host, Marcie decided to become a full-time cultural reporter. During her career, more than 100 of her stories have been heard on NPR's newsmagazines, as well as on The Voice of America. In 2005, she became KUOW's first special projects reporter. In this role, she produced in-depth audio portraits and documentary series about life and culture in the Puget Sound Region.
In September, 2013, Marcie was part of the team that created The Record, a daily news magazine focused on the issues and culture of the Puget Sound region. After two years as Senior Host of the program, Marcie returned to full-time cultural reporting.
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On any given weekday morning, thousands of young professionals flood the streets in Seattle’s South Lake Union neighborhood. Their identical black… -
Lucien Postlewaite remembers exactly how he felt the first time he danced with Noelani Pantastico.“I was this young boy,” he recalls. “I’d always admired… -
KUOW's Marcie Sillman speaks with Seattle librarian and author Nancy Pearl about her first novel, "George and Lizzie." -
Racial and economic equity are priorities for government leaders and community activists in the Pacific Northwest.The same holds true for regional arts… -
This story originally aired in 2005. We loved it so much that we dug it out again in honor of the Ballard Locks' 100 year anniversary on July 4, 2017.At… -
Adrian Olivas is a small, soft-spoken man who makes his living as a horticulturalist, nurturing plant life of all kinds.But three evenings a week, Olivas… -
When Azura Tyabji stepped up to the microphone at a community forum this spring, most of the audience members had no idea what to expect.Tyabji is small,… -
Bill Radke talks to KUOW arts reporter Marcie Sillman and Sean Nelson, arts and music editor at The Stranger, about the closing of two Landmark movie… -
Seattle’s Intiman Theatre has a simple mission: To present work that is relevant to our times and as diverse as the community itself.Intiman recently… -
Seattle has a rich history of big giving that goes back to the middle of the last century. As a communications officer at the Gates Foundation, Local…
