The MS Phoenix Rising | Episode 1: “We Need A Show”
March 16, 2021
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Has everybody dialed in? Eying the end of the cruise industry’s shutdown, Marketing Director Marsha DeBois brings the Dane Cruising team avant garde theater director Angela Hove’s production of The Chairs to headline the relaunch. Approval in place, the front office bangs out next steps, oblivious of the complicated journey ahead.
The MS Phoenix Rising is co-produced by Playwrights Horizons and creators Katie Brook and Trish Harnetiaux as a part of Playwrights Horizons’ Soundstage podcast program.
The MS Phoenix Rising is also based on the stage play We Are Not Well by Trish Harnetiaux that was originally The Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute’s Clifford Odets Play Commission, Spring 2019
Written by Trish Harnetiaux
Directed by Katie Brook
Produced by Katie Brook and Ben Williams
Production Managed by Nyseli Vega
Designed and Engineered by Ben Williams
Casting by Alaine Alldaffer and Lisa Donadio
Episode 1 Cast
Anthony Arkin
Eric Berryman
Susan Blommaert
John Gasper
April Matthis
Emily Cass McDonnell
Keilly McQuail
Jessie Shelton
Danielle Skraastad
Nidra Sous la Terre
Jacob A. Ware
The MS Phoenix Rising jingle was written by Trish Harnetiaux and Riley Thomas, arranged and orchestrated by Lloyd Kikoler, and performed by Jessie Shelton.
This episode of The MS Phoenix Rising was commissioned by The Play Company.
Soundstage General Manager Jenna Ready
Soundstage Line Producer Alison Koch
The Soundstage podcast program is made possible in part by a grant from the Scherman Foundation’s Katharine S. and Axel G. Rosin Fund.
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