Chas Edwards

Experience

1. Co-founder, President and Publisher

   Pop-Up Magazine Productions

   Feb 2013 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Pop-Up Magazine Productions makes the touring live magazine show, Pop-Up Magazine, and, from 20••••20, published the California Sunday Magazine, which was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2021. The company\'s work has been named a finalist for seventeen National Magazine Awards, including Magazine of the Year, and won three, and was awarded Magazine of the Year by the Society of Publication Designers (SPDs) in 2018 and 2019. Fast Company included Pop-Up Magazine Productions in its Most Innovative Companies list (2019), and The Tribeca Film Festival presented Pop-Up Magazine with the Mark Twain Prize for Innovations in Storytelling at their Disruptive Innovation Awards (2019). In 2019, Ad Age named Pop-Up Magazine Productions to its A-List, and Adweek named Edwards and co-founder Douglas McGray to the Creative 100 list. Edwards has also been honored in the FOLIO: 10•••18) and Ad Age\'s Creativity 50 (alongside McGray, 2015). An animated film starring Rashida Jones, an ad co-produced with Google Play, was awarded AI-AP\'s International Motion Arts Award for 2015.

Education

• Brown University

  BA, Modern Culture & Media

  1988 — 1992