I know it may sound strange, but creating Live from Mount Olympus, a new podcast for kids, during the pandemic, with all the challenges of remote recording over zoom, has been a tremendous joy! Working with the extraordinary directors and actors from The TEAM was so much fun, even though we never met in person. Their delight in bringing to life the story of Perseus was contagious!
One of our recording sessions for Live from Mount Olympus
I had so much fun to work with the talented New Yorker cartoonist, Jason Adam Katzenstein, as he created illustrations for the series. It was the first time in my long career that I was able to ask someone if they might be able to make the snakes a little writher…
I loved wrestling with the myth with our writers, Alexie Basil, Nalini Jones, and Nathan Yungerberg as we figured out how to tell the story for our young audience. And such a pleasure to work with sound designer and audio producer David Schulman as he created an entire mythic world in sound, with original music by Magda Giannikou and Luca Bordonaro that makes listeners want to get up and dance. Thank you to EP Karen Brooks Hopkins and Onassis USA for making this all possible. You can listen to the series here!