Vulture Festival NY
Developed and launched by SKB in 2014 while she was the Events Director of New York Magazine, Vulture Festival is a live representation of Vulture’s editorial content, hosting events highlighting the best in TV, Film, Music, Art, Literary, Podcasts, and more, with event formats including screenings/premieres, interviews, live podcast recordings, concerts, stand up comedy, and other odd formats including a pop culture trivia game show, scavenger hunt, sing-a-longs, and more.
SKB grew the festival over 5 years and expanded it to Los Angeles, adding a market where the festival continues to be hosted today.
Hosted at Milk Studios in New York City, Vulture Festival is the only event historically that Milk allowed to take over the entire building, hosting events in over 6 studios across 4 floors, including an interactive Vulture Lounge where guests would go and congregate after events to enjoy drinks, refreshments, photo booths, and engage in the many sponsor activations featured by the festival.
Talent over the years at Vulture Festival New York included opening party DJs (hosted at the Boom Boom Room each year atop The Standard New York) including Erykah Badu, Questlove, and DJ Jazzy Jeff, talent at Webster Hall concerts including MIA, Solange, Banks, St. Lucia, Gary Clark, Jr., Albert Hammond Jr, and Cat Power, stand up comedy shows at the Bell House and BAM including Sarah Silverman, John Early, Mike Birbiglia, Abbi Jacobson, Michelle Wolf, Aparna Nancharla, and more; events over the years including Sarah Jessica Parker, Shonda Rhimes, Jose Andres, The Muppets, Amy Poehler, Billy Eichner, Al Franken, Chelsea Handler, Tituss Burgess, Phoebe Robinson, Jessica Williams, Bowen Yang, Matt Rogers, Trevor Noah, Rami Malek, the cast of Better Call Saul, the cast of Riverdale, creators of Black Mirror, cast of the Carmichael Show, the cast of Shameless, the cast of Happy Endings, the voices of Bob’s Burgers, Stephen Colbert, Jerry Seinfeld, Rufus Wainwright, Adam Scott, Justin Theroux and the cast + creators of The Leftovers, Fred Armisen, St. Vincent, Ethan Hawke, Jason Schwartzman, Gina Rodriguez, Connie Britton, Aziz Ansari, Desus & Mero, Kevin Bacon, Vince Vaughn, Neil Patrick Harris, and more; live podcasts including How Did This Get Made, Bitch Sesh, Two Dope Queens, Comedy Bang Bang, Reply All, and more.
The festival grew over the years from hosting 12 events over 2 days in the first year, to 48 events over 2 days in the 5th year, attracting 15,000 guests over the weekend, and generating over 2 billion press impressions.
