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Antonia persuades Sebastian to kill Alonso and Gonzala in their sleep so that he may take the throne in Naples. Meanwhile, Caliban convinces Stephano to kill Prospero and rule the island with Miranda as his bride. Elsewhere, Ferdinand and Miranda celebrate their union in a celestial dance conjured by Prospero’s magical powers. It ends abruptly when Prospero realizes he must take swift action to thwart his enemies.

The Play On Podcast series, “THE TEMPEST”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by KENNETH CAVANDER. Each episode was directed by ANDY WOLK.

PROSPERO: JAY O. SANDERS

MIRANDA: KIM WUAN

ARIEL and JUNO: KUHOO VERMA

CALIBAN: GREGG MOZGALA

FERDINAND: GREG CUELLAR

ALONSO: KEVIN KILNER

ANTONIA: JORDAN BAKER

SEBASTIAN: ANTHONY COCHRANE

GONZALA: MARYANN PLUNKETT

STEPHANO: BRENT JENNINGS

TRINCULO: BARZIN AKHAVAN

BOATSWAIN, CERES and Others: PACO TOLSON

IRIS: NANCY RODRIGUEZ

Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA, and ADA KARAMANYAN.

Voice and Text Coach: JULIE FOH

Episode scripts were adapted and produced by CATHERINE EATON

Original Music by LAWRENCE SHRAGGE. Music Editor: MILES BERGSMA.

Sound Design and Mix by LINDSAY JONES.

Sound engineering by SADAHARU YAGI.

Mix Engineer and Dialogue Editor: LARRY WALSH.

Podcast Mastering by GREG CORTEZ at New Monkey Studio.

Coordinating Producer: TRANSCEND STREAMING (KYRA BOWIE and LEANNA KEYES).

Executive Producer: MICHAEL GOODFRIEND.

The Managing Director of Business Operations and Partnerships at Next Chapter Podcasts is SALLYCADE HOLMES.

The Play On Podcast Series “THE TEMPEST” is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit ncpodcasts.com for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit playonshakespeare.org for more about Play On Shakespeare. Hear more about the Play On Shakespeare Podcast series by subscribing to Play On Premium at ncpodcasts.com, where you’ll find interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. And remember: “We are such stuff as Dreams are made on”.

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King Alonso trudges through the rain-soaked island searching for any sign of his lost son. Gonzala does her best to comfort him over the derision of Antonia and Sebastian, who blame the King for his misfortunes and ridicule Gonzala’s optimistic idealism. Ariel arrives to cast a spell over Gonzala and Alonso, putting them to sleep under the guard of Sebastian and Antonia. Meanwhile, Caliban bristles at having to haul wood for Prospero until he hears the approach of Trinculo, the King’s jester, who he mistakes for one of Prospero’s demons. He hides under a cloak, which Trinculo discovers and uses as shelter from the rain. There, he finds Caliban, who he presumes from his stench is a strange mis-shapen creature from the island. Stephano, the King’s butler, drunk from the liquor that he found after the shipwreck, happens upon the pair and is joyfully reunited with Trinculo. Together, they get Caliban to drink liquor for the first time. In return, Caliban offers to be their devoted servant and renounces his loyalty to Prospero.

The Play On Podcast series, “THE TEMPEST”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by KENNETH CAVANDER. Each episode was directed by ANDY WOLK.

PROSPERO: JAY O. SANDERS

MIRANDA: KIM WUAN

ARIEL and JUNO: KUHOO VERMA

CALIBAN: GREGG MOZGALA

FERDINAND: GREG CUELLAR

ALONSO: KEVIN KILNER

ANTONIA: JORDAN BAKER

SEBASTIAN: ANTHONY COCHRANE

GONZALA: MARYANN PLUNKETT

STEPHANO: BRENT JENNINGS

TRINCULO: BARZIN AKHAVAN

BOATSWAIN, CERES and Others: PACO TOLSON

IRIS: NANCY RODRIGUEZ

Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA, and ADA KARAMANYAN.

Voice and Text Coach: JULIE FOH

Episode scripts were adapted and produced by CATHERINE EATON

Original Music by LAWRENCE SHRAGGE. Music Editor: MILES BERGSMA.

Sound Design and Mix by LINDSAY JONES.

Sound engineering by SADAHARU YAGI.

Mix Engineer and Dialogue Editor: LARRY WALSH.

Podcast Mastering by GREG CORTEZ at New Monkey Studio.

Coordinating Producer: TRANSCEND STREAMING (KYRA BOWIE and LEANNA KEYES).

Executive Producer: MICHAEL GOODFRIEND.

The Managing Director of Business Operations and Partnerships at Next Chapter Podcasts is SALLYCADE HOLMES.

The Play On Podcast Series “THE TEMPEST” is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit ncpodcasts.com for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit playonshakespeare.org for more about Play On Shakespeare. Hear more about the Play On Shakespeare Podcast series by subscribing to Play On Premium at ncpodcasts.com, where you’ll find interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. And remember: “We are such stuff as Dreams are made on”.

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Prospero orchestrates a meeting between his daughter, Miranda, and King Alonso’s son, Ferdinand, who is wandering the island in mourning for his father, who he presumes is dead. He is mesmerized by Ariel’s music and falls in love with Miranda the moment he sees her. Prospero confronts Ferdinand and saddles him with chores while he and Miranda visit Caliban, Sycorax’s son, who Prospero enslaved after he attempted to rape Miranda. Later, Ferdinand declares his love to Miranda and vows to marry her and bring her back to Naples as his Queen.

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Twelve years after having been deposed in a coup, Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, uses magical powers with the help of his spirit servant, Ariel, to shipwreck his enemies who are en route home from the wedding of the King of Naples’ (Alonso’s) daughter to the Prince of Tunis. Prospero’s daughter, Miranda, frets over the fate of the voyagers, but Prospero reassures her that they are unharmed before telling her the truth about their history: His sister, Antonia, conspired with Alonso to overthrow Prospero, putting him out to sea with Miranda in a rickety ship in the hope that they’d drown. Fortunately, a noble citizen named Gonzala secreted some clothing, food and water onto the ship, along with Prospero’s most prized books, by which he practiced magic. After Miranda falls asleep, Prospero beckons Ariel, who he commands to help him with more tasks now that the storm has ended. Ariel resists, but Prospero reminds the spirit that he freed it from slavery to the evil witch, Sycorax, who ruled the island until Prospero took over. After he threatens to re-enslave Ariel, the spirit relents and agrees to do Prospero’s bidding. Once Ariel is gone, Prospero wakes Miranda to show her a wondrous sight…

The Play On Podcast series, “THE TEMPEST”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by KENNETH CAVANDER. Each episode was directed by ANDY WOLK.

PROSPERO: JAY O. SANDERS

MIRANDA: KIM WUAN

ARIEL and JUNO: KUHOO VERMA

CALIBAN: GREGG MOZGALA

FERDINAND: GREG CUELLAR

ALONSO: KEVIN KILNER

ANTONIA: JORDAN BAKER

SEBASTIAN: ANTHONY COCHRANE

GONZALA: MARYANN PLUNKETT

STEPHANO: BRENT JENNINGS

TRINCULO: BARZIN AKHAVAN

BOATSWAIN, CERES and Others: PACO TOLSON

IRIS: NANCY RODRIGUEZ

Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA, and ADA KARAMANYAN.

Voice and Text Coach: JULIE FOH

Episode scripts were adapted and produced by CATHERINE EATON

Original Music by LAWRENCE SHRAGGE. Music Editor: MILES BERGSMA.

Sound Design and Mix by LINDSAY JONES.

Sound engineering by SADAHARU YAGI.

Mix Engineer and Dialogue Editor: LARRY WALSH.

Podcast Mastering by GREG CORTEZ at New Monkey Studio.

Coordinating Producer: TRANSCEND STREAMING (KYRA BOWIE and LEANNA KEYES).

Executive Producer: MICHAEL GOODFRIEND.

The Managing Director of Business Operations and Partnerships at Next Chapter Podcasts is SALLYCADE HOLMES.

The Play On Podcast Series “THE TEMPEST” is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit ncpodcasts.com for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit playonshakespeare.org for more about Play On Shakespeare. Hear more about the Play On Shakespeare Podcast series by subscribing to Play On Premium at ncpodcasts.com, where you’ll find interviews with the artists, producers and engineers who brought it all to life. And remember: “We are such stuff as Dreams are made on”.

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Introducing...The Tempest

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Cloe is an AI researcher who discovers that her AI assistant, Eloc, has the power to analyze love in different objects, she decides to use Eloc's new skill to help her find love.

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When Gloria took a waitressing job in a diner outside of Phoenix, she didn't realize she was now an employee of Midnight Burger, a time-traveling, dimension-spanning diner. Every day Midnight Burger appears somewhere new in the cosmos along with its staff: a galactic drifter, a rogue theoretical physicist, a sentient old-timey radio, and some guy named Caspar. No one knows who built Midnight Burger or how it works, but when it appears there's always someone around who could really use a cup of coffee.

And this time…..the diner has found itself in a dystopian Earth where the ads are LITERALLY stuck in your head. That's right, it's the worst dystopia of all. No mohawks, no zombies, no improvised weaponry... just more ads!!

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“Every breath opens your heart.” Visionary theater artist Lisa Wolpe has been leading the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts since way before it was trendy. Hear her describe Shakespeare’s sacred geometry, why Antigonus has to be eaten by a bear, and how Charlotte Cushman shamed Edwin Booth!  

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“Every breath opens your heart.” Visionary theater artist Lisa Wolpe has been leading the movement for gender parity and diversity in the arts since way before it was trendy. Hear her describe Shakespeare’s sacred geometry, why Antigonus has to be eaten by a bear, and how Charlotte Cushman shamed Edwin Booth!  

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BEEF is an original scripted non-fiction storytelling podcast where Business Wars meets pop culture history.

Award-winning host Bridget Todd tells the stories of legends in their fields and how they tried to stomp out their competition only to find that their enemies become the driving force behind their success, ultimately changing the world as we know it.

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EPISODE 1

Advice columns have been a part of our culture for almost as long as there have been newspapers to print them. People of all backgrounds have turned, anonymously to these sources of cultural wisdom for help with all manner of personal issues. There have been few advice dealers more prominent than Ann Landers and Abigail Van Buren a.k.a. Dear Abby, In the latter half of the 20th century, they were two of the most influential columnists in the word. But what you might not know about them is that in real life they were known as Esther and Pauline Friedman, twin sisters who counseled millions and hated each other's guts.

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Pick up David Gudelunas' book Confidential to America: Newspaper Advice Columns and Sexual Education.

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Bridget Todd BIO: Bridget Todd is a frequently cited expert, trainer, and speaker on combating disinformation and extremism online, advocating for social media platform accountability, creating safer digital experiences for women and other marginalized people, and celebrating and amplifying marginalized people’s contributions to tech and the internet. 

Her critically acclaimed podcast, There Are No Girls on the Internet, explores how marginalized people show up online in response to the lack of inclusion in conversations around the internet. The hit podcast earned “Best Technology Podcast” at the iHeart Radio Podcast Awards and a Shorty Award for “Best Podcast Miniseries”.

As Director of Communication for the national gender-justice advocacy organization Ultraviolet, Bridget regularly meets with leadership from platforms like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and TikTok to advocate for and develop policy recommendations to make digital experiences safer and more inclusive. Bridget’s writing has been featured in the Atlantic, Newsweek, the Nation, and the Daily Show.

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