Geoff Edgers

Geoff Edgers (born 1970) is an American journalist, author, filmmaker, television host, and podcast host. He is currently the national arts reporter for The Washington Post and was previously a staff arts reporter for The Boston Globe. Edgers currently host the Edge of Fame podcast, a collaboration between The Washington Post and WBUR-FM, Boston's NPR National. In addition, Edgers produced and starred in the 2010 music documentary Do It Again. 

His articles have appeared in magazines such as GQ and Wired. He has worked as a reporter for several newspapers, including the Boston Phoenix, Raleigh News and Observer, The Boston Globe, and The Washington Post. Edgers have also published children's books on Elvis, the Beatles, and Stan Lee and co-wrote a book on Julia Child with his wife, Carlene Hempel. In 2013, he hosted a Travel Channel reality TV series called Edge of America, and in June 2013, he was awarded a New England Emmy for work on a video for The Boston Globe. 

He also hosted the military history series Secrets of the Arsenal on the American Heroes Channel. Edgers joined The Washington Post in September 2014 as the paper's national arts reporter. Edgers attended Brookline High School in Brookline, Massachusetts, and graduated from Tufts University in 1992 with a degree in English. Following his graduation, he was employed as a reporter by several newspapers, including the Sudbury Town Crier, Waltham News-Tribune, Middlesex News, Boston Phoenix, and Raleigh News and Observer.

He worked as an arts reporter from 2002 to August 2014 for The Boston Globe. His work involved covering the Museum of Fine Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston Symphony Orchestra, and other arts-related organizations in the Boston area. Edgers have also freelanced for several magazines, including GQ, Spin, Wired, and Salon. Examples of this work include an article on Monkee Michael Nesmith's New Mexico symposiums (for Wired) and a series of pieces for Salon, including one on Brian Wilson's 2000 Pet Sounds tour.

Edgers have written three children's books: The Midnight Hour: Bright Ideas for After Dark (Penguin, 1997) and four installments in the Grosset and Dunlap "Who Was...?" series, Who Were The Beatles? (2006), Who Was Elvis Presley? (2007), Who Is Stan Lee? (2014), and Who Was Julia Child? (2015), the last installment collaborating with his wife, Carlene Hempel. Geoff Edgers teamed up with director Robert Patton-Spruill in early 2008 to begin work on a film about his love of British Invasion band the Kinks, headed by the two feuding brothers Ray and Dave Davies. 

The documentary, entitled Do It Again, follows Edgers throughout America and Britain on a quest to reunite the original members. Edgers meet with various personalities and Kinks fans to discuss the band, such as Sting, Paul Weller, Peter Buck, Zooey Deschanel, Clive Davis, Warren Zanes, Robyn Hitchcock, and Dave Davies himself. Do It Again premiered at the Rotterdam International Film Festival in January 2010 and was met with positive reviews. It traveled the film festival circuit throughout the rest of 2010 (making stops at locations such as the Independent Film Festival of Boston and the London International Documentary Festival). 

It was broadcast on multiple PBS stations throughout late 2011 and early 2012. In 2013 the Travel Channel aired Edge of America, a TV series starring Edgers. The program, produced by Magilla Productions, involved Edgers in a search for quintessentially American forms of entertainment and fun ("strange American things in scenic American places," according to The Boston Globe), as well as "a quest to see what constitutes entertainment." The Travel Channel showed strong initial confidence in the series. But it failed to attract desirable demographics and was not renewed.

Edgers were awarded a New England Emmy in June 2013 for work on a video for The Boston Globe. He shared the award with producer Darren Durlach. The short, entitled "Behind the Curtain: Act One of Barbara Quintiliani's Story," is a ten-minute documentary about the success and struggles of acclaimed Massachusetts-based opera singer Barbara Quintiliani. In April 2014, he released another documentary entitled 5 Runners. The 30-minute film, based on Edgers' April 2013 Boston Globe article "Chance Leaves Five Runners Forever Linked," documents the lives of five runners leading up to, during, and directly after the Boston Marathon bombing. 

The five competitors, at the time, all in the close vicinity of the explosion and directly affected by the trauma, share an ambition to run the race once more in order to achieve closure. Edgers wrote and narrated the film and shared directing duties with Darren Durlach. 5 Runners premiered at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library on April 10, followed by a broadcast on April 14 at 9:30 p.m. on the New England Sports Network.