Brent Jackson
The Women of Marvel are assembling once again! Marvel Entertainment’s original podcast series, Women of Marvel, returns for its Fall season on Thursday, October 28.
In the weekly series, hosts Ellie Pyle, Angélique Roché, and Judy Stephens conduct interviews to spotlight the impact that diverse female voices have on Marvel’s storytelling across mediums.
The theme of the Fall season, “Adaptation & Evolution,” explores how Marvel’s tales have adapted into a growing assortment of media, reaching larger and more diverse audiences. And like the world outside our windows, the stories – and their storytellers – are changing with the times. The new season will cover the literal adaptations of our stories into different media and the evolution of the Marvel Universe.
Women of Marvel’s upcoming season explores topics including mystics in the Marvel Universe, how to break into comics, and the history of genre and gender representation in comics. The episodes feature an impressive lineup of guests including comic writers and editors Bobbie Chase, Linda Fite, Jeanine Schaefer, Lauren Bisom, Sarah Brunstad, Ann Nocenti, Alyssa Wong, Jo Duffy; authors Jean Thomas, Nic Stone; cosplayers and content creators Stella Chuu, Divinity Noria; SDSU Professor and co-leader of Comics@SDSU Beth Pollard; the Director of Education at the Salem Witch Museum Rachel Christ, and more.
The 8-episode weekly series is produced by Alexis Williams, Jasmine Estrada, and Isabel Robertson. New episodes are released every Thursday. You can listen to Women of Marvel on the SXM App, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or wherever you listen to podcasts.
About Women of Marvel
Hosted by Ellie Pyle, Angélique Roché, and Judy Stephens, the Women of Marvel assemble to show how people of all backgrounds are making a powerful and positive impact on our stories. In 2009, the first Women of Marvel panels were held at New York Comic Con and San Diego Comic-Con, highlighting women at the forefront of changing the game in the comic book industry. More than 10 years and 250 episodes later, the Women of Marvel podcast has continued to bring in new guests and hosts from across Marvel and its fandom.
About Marvel Entertainment
Marvel Entertainment, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is one of the world’s most prominent character-based entertainment companies, built on a proven library of more than 8,000 characters featured in a variety of media for over eighty years. Marvel utilizes its character franchises in entertainment, licensing, publishing, games, and digital media. For more information visit marvel.com. © 2021 MARVEL
About the Hosts
Ellie Pyle is Marvel’s Executive Director of Audio Content and Story, primarily focused on developing and guiding Marvel’s fiction podcasts, in addition to co-hosting Women of Marvel. Previously, she worked for Marvel as a comic book editor on such titles as Amazing (and Superior) Spider-Man, Mark Waid’s Daredevil, Black Widow, and Fearless Defenders. She later became a Director of Content Development consulting on products across the company including Marvel TV, Animation, the Spotlight Play Program, Games, Parks, and New Media. Outside of Marvel, she has edited creator-owned comics, worked in narrative for a video game company, and founded a theatre company focused on new play development that is about to enter its fourth season.
Angélique Roché is a producer, host, moderator, voiceover artist and cultural journal-ist. As a writer and photographer, Angélique has contributed to outlets such as Marvel, NBC News, Black Girl Nerds, SYFY Wire, Nerdist, and Rewire News. She currently hosts the Marvel’s Voices and Women of Marvel podcasts. Angelique is a senior contributing editor and on-air correspondent at Syfy Wire and host of New York Public Radio’s live monthly show and podcast “Very Biggest Questions” at The Greene Space. She is the creator and producer of her own livestream conversation series and podcast Creative Quarantine as part of the Broadway Podcast Network, as well as co-creator of The Rad-ical Geeks podcast.
Judy Stephens is a producer, author, cosplayer with ever-changing rainbow hair color. Born in Metro Detroit, she moved to New York City in 2003 to attend college and fell in love with the city. While at Parsons, studying photography, she discovered anime and cosplay through attending conventions. Since then, she has attended over 100 conventions across the US and internationally as staff, photographer and cosplayer, plus cosplayed over 25 characters, including Captain Marvel. As a Producer, Judy worked at Marvel for 15 years where she created series like Marvel Becoming, Marvel Quickdraw, Marvel Make Me a Hero, Women of Marvel and more. A proud Queens resident, where she lives with her two cats, she spends her free time dining & traveling with friends, working out and doing puzzles. Judy is currently the host and producer of the Women of Marvel podcast, and co-author of the upcoming Marvel book, Super Visible: The Story of the Women of Marvel.
