Work
Jeanine Emilia Cornillot
Cornillot’s work moves between true stories and invented worlds, from unscripted television and narrative podcasts to original audio fiction. At Ghost Mode Labs, she develops original IP and builds prototypes using AI and other emerging technologies to test new creative workflows for research, development, and production.
Productions
Television and podcasts, including unscripted series, narrative nonfiction, true crime, and original audio fiction.
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Scamfluencers
Creator and showrunner
A weekly true-crime series about the internet’s most audacious scammers and the people caught in their stories.
The series has 53 million downloads, reached number one on Apple Podcasts, and won the 2023 Ambie for Best Entertainment Podcast, with a second nomination in 2025.
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Dying for Sex
Co-developer and producer of the original podcast
A narrative series about Molly Kochan leaving her marriage after a terminal cancer diagnosis and telling the story to her best friend, Nikki Boyer.
The original podcast won the 2021 Ambie for Podcast of the Year. Its FX television adaptation won a Peabody Award, received nine Emmy nominations, and received a 2026 Television Academy Honor.
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The Last City
Creator and showrunner
An immersive 12-part science-fiction thriller starring Rhea Seehorn, set inside a utopian society surviving the climate crisis and designed natively in Dolby Atmos.
Wondery’s first original series designed natively in Dolby Atmos, with sound shaping the story from the pitch and writers’ room onward. It reached number one in Apple Fiction in 20 countries and was nominated for the 2025 Ambie for Best Fiction Podcast.
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Born This Way
Supervising producer
A documentary series following seven young adults with Down syndrome as they build careers, independence, and relationships.
The series won three Primetime Emmys and received 16 nominations.
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No Passport Required
Supervising producer
Chef Marcus Samuelsson travels the United States to explore immigrant communities redefining American food.
The series won a James Beard Media Award.
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Hollywood & Crime
Senior producer
Two seasons inside Wondery’s Hollywood true-crime anthology, including Billionaire Boys Club and The Execution of Bonny Lee Bakley.
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Life of Kylie
Senior supervising producer
A documentary series following Kylie Jenner at the height of the Kardashian-Jenner media empire.
Ghost Mode Labs
Ghost Mode Labs is where Jeanine develops original IP and prototypes new ways to use AI and other emerging technologies in story research, worldbuilding, visual audio, and new formats.
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Visual Audiobooks
Creator & Creative Director
Built a prototype audiobook player whose artwork redraws itself each time a listener returns.
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Static
Creator
A scripted supernatural series built from online folklore, developed with a research tool that finds recurring story patterns across public archives.
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Multiverse Quad
Creator and collaborator
A working demo that retold one story as an animated film, graphic novel, visual audiobook, and podcast.
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AI Creator Lab
Founder and program lead
A hands-on Wondery program where creative teams tested emerging tools inside real production work. Participation grew from four people to more than fifty across the company.
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Narrative Space
Creator
A working prototype that turns story notes, characters, timelines, and locations into a three-dimensional space writers can explore.
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Unstill
Creator
An archival storytelling experiment using records, color, motion, and changing inscriptions to reconsider lives preserved in 1920s Sydney police photographs.
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MythOS
Creator
A research tool connecting 3,500 years of mythology and folklore across cultures, built to help development teams find public-domain story material.
The working prototype contains 494 source stories.
Open visual project