Kara Cutruzzula Email & Phone Number

New York

As a writer and editor with 15 years of experience in magazine and digital journalism, my work has been featured in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, Vulture, TED Ideas, TIME.com, MONEY, and other publications.As a consulting editor at Billboard magazine, DuJour magazine, Tasting Table, MONEY magazine, and NextAdvisor, I top-edited front-of-book and feature stories and editorial packages on music, lifestyle, culture, food, careers, and personal finance.I've written a series of three motivational journals — Do It For Yourself, Do It Today, and Do It (or Don't) — designed to help you work through creative and professional projects, published by Abrams Books.

I'm a member of the BMI Musical Theatre Advanced Workshop, and the BMI Librettists Workshop, where my collaborators include composers Ron Passaro, Shoshana Shattenkirk, and Kristoffer Bjarke.For our second-year project, Ron Passaro and I adapted The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel into a musical!For our first-year project, Kristoffer Bjarke and I wrote Letters From May, a 10-minute musical about what it takes to be a creator — and what you might have to leave behind. Letters From May will be licensed by Musical Theatre International in 2024.

My newsletter Brass Ring Daily provides short notes of encouragement for your creative work and life. In the past seven years, I've published 1,400+ issues and connected with thousands of people around the world. Brass Ring Daily has been featured in The New York Times' Smarter Living, Lifehacker, Inc., and Vanity Fair, which called it "a life coach in your inbox."Subscribe at www.brassringdaily.substack.com

New York

Assigned and edited Newsweek magazine's culture section called "Omnivore" covering art, music, film, television, and travel.Interviewed celebrities, authors, and entrepreneurs to write stories in their voice for Newsweek's back page titled "My Favorite Mistake." (e.g. James Earl Jones told me about the time he lost a toe doing Shakespeare in the Park).Researched, curated, and edited Newsweek's weekly fashion/product page "WANT" where celebrities and tastemakers recommended things you will want.Managed online art coverage for The Daily Beast's art vertical.Edited the weekly email newsletter called "Culture Beast" (formerly "The Yes List") about five cultural must-dos for the coming week.Assigned, edited, and top-edited Newsweek's 96-page special commemorative issue for Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee. Let's talk about those royal corgis...

New York

Assigned and edited art, food, culture, and entertainment stories for the web.

New York

Edited breaking news and maintained The Daily Beast's homepage, covering national and international news, politics, and entertainment. Curated and top edited stories for the Cheat Sheet and obsessively tracked traffic using Omniture.

New York

Wrote and edited articles about careers, finance, home, and technology for a self-help start-up funded by Hearst Digital Media.

Coordinated with studio publicists to schedule buzzy upcoming films, and programmed the weekly $2 movie series for the largest on-campus screening program in the country.

Los Angeles

Wrote articles, copy edited, and researched for the biweekly trade magazine about the travel industry.

Los Angeles

Read scripts and wrote coverage for Creative Executives, updated submission sheets, and maintained the episode bibles for "Bones" back in the day.

Scoured the trades and wrote screenings reports during the Oscar campaign for "Memoirs of a Geisha."

English, English

Education record