Gillian Pensavalle

With over ten years of experience in the entertainment industry, Gillian is a content creator through and through: she is an actor, voice-over artist, on-camera host, podcaster, editor, writer, SAG signatory producer, and showrunner. 

Gillian is the co-creator of True Crime Obsessed, a smash-hit true crime/comedy podcast. Recapping documentaries with their unique blend of humor, heart, and sass, Gillian and her partner Patrick Hinds have garnered over 5000 five-star reviews on Apple Podcasts and are consistently listed in the top 200 of all podcasts. In January 2016, Gillian created The Hamilcast: A Hamilton Podcast, the first Hamilton podcast to hit the airwaves, which she also executive produces and hosts. Many of Hamilton’s creators and stars have appeared on the podcast – including Lin-Manuel Miranda – and it has earned the title of "The Official Hamilton Podcast" among cast members. Together with her husband Michael Paul Smith, Gillian co-created, produced, and starred in The Residuals, a successful comedy series based on the couple's the real-life NYC commercial auditions. As a Senior On-Air Host at Zazoom Media Group, Gillian pitched, wrote, hosted, produced, and edited approximately 2,000 videos for the flagship Buzz60 channel that were distributed to over 12,000 partner sites and garnered tens of millions of views.