Youth Theatre Podcast

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents an EPIC RADIO ADVENTURE that will be broadcast weekly over the summer!

SAILING INTO ICY STARS

Join orphaned twins Daleea and Ernst as they flee their drab and depressing prospects on the planet Mundanea, with the help of a rogues gallery of space misfits. Will they find the planet Frostopia? If they do, will they find their long lost father? Sailing Into Icy Stars was written by students in PYT's Play writing Master Class, and features the vocal talents of many of our illustrious alumni!

Episode 7: Blistering in Blazopolis By Anika Raman

Without navigator Sean Nolo, our heroes find themselves lost again. When their ship is impounded on the fiery planet of Blazeopolis, it will take all their skill and a little luck to find their way off again!

Episode 7: Blistering in Blazopolis by Anika Ramen

Tonight on Youth Theatre Interview, Ben Siegel interviews Davied Morales, an actor and rapper from San Jose. Davied is a recipient of the Leigh Weimers Award for emerging artists. He has performed around the Bay Area at SF Playhouse, City Lights, Shotgun Players, Northside Theatre Company and TheatreWorks. You can follow him on any Social Media @activepoet where he frequently posts about his music and upcoming projects he is working on!

Davied is also the host of the upcoming Theatre Bay Area "Together We Rise" virtual fundraiser on Monday, June 29 at 6:30pm. 40% of live donations on the evening will go to the Performing Arts Worker Relief Fund, 50% will go to TBA. Also, as part of TBA's values of equity, diversity, and inclusion, 10% of donations made during the event will go to the NAACP. Tickets are available for every income level. For more information visit https://e.givesmart.com/events/hqI/

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents an EPIC RADIO ADVENTURE that will be broadcast weekly over the summer!

SAILING INTO ICY STARS

Join orphaned twins Daleea and Ernst as they flee their drab and depressing prospects on the planet Mundanea, with the help of a rogues gallery of space misfits. Will they find the planet Frostopia? If they do, will they find their long lost father? Sailing Into Icy Stars was written by students in PYT's Play writing Master Class, and features the vocal talents of many of our illustrious alumni!

Episode 6: Pit Stop on Paloozatopia By Disha Kumar

Although they thought they were finally on the right track, our heroes are forced to make a pit stop to refuel on the party planet, Paloozatopia. Will they be able to avoid the lure of infinity pools and EMO music? Or will they forget their dreams of Frostopia over an ice cold jug of apple juice.

Episode 6: Passing Through Paloozatopia by Disha Kumar

Tonight on Interview, Sagnik Nag Chowdhury meets Jeffrey Lo. Jeffrey is a Filipino-American playwright and director based in the Bay Area. He is the recipient of the 2014 Leigh Weimers (Lee Why-mers) Emerging Arist Award, the 2012 Emerging Artist Laureate (Lah-ree-eight) by Arts Council Silicon Valley and Theatre Bay Area Director's TITAN Award. His plays have been produced and workshopped at The BindleStiff Studio, City Lights Theatre Company and Custom Made Theatre Company. His play Writing Fragments Home was a finalist for the Bay Area Playwright's Conference and a semi-finalist for the O'Neill Playwright's Conference. Jeffrey has also worked with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, San Jose Repertory and is a company member of Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company and SF Playground. He is also the casting director for TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents an EPIC RADIO ADVENTURE that will be broadcast weekly over the summer!

SAILING INTO ICY STARS

Join orphaned twins Daleea and Ernst as they flee their drab and depressing prospects on the planet Mundanea, with the help of a rogues gallery of space misfits. Will they find the planet Frostopia? If they do, will they find their long lost father? Sailing Into Icy Stars was written by students in PYT's Play writing Master Class, and features the vocal talents of many of our illustrious alumni!

Episode 5: Cast Away in Congo By Arielle Shimoni

Landing on yet another wrong planet, our heroes know they are truly lost in space, despite Sean Nolo’s claims to know what he’s doing. Congo is a jungle planet, where animals and peace prevail - but is the planet as peaceful as it seems - or does danger lurk within the jungle brush?

Episode 5 Cast (in order of appearance):

Narrator: Jonathan Murphy

In tonight's interview, Samantha Belding talks with Tony-Award Winning Broadway Producer Randy Adams.  Randy is a founding partner of Junkyard Dog Productions (JYD), a theatrical producing company dedicated to the development and production of new musical theatre.  JYD is currently represented on Broadway with Come From Away which is the winner of the Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Helen Hayes and Dora Award for Best Musical of 2017.  The National Tour of Memphis (by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan) completed a successful multi-year run following an almost three year run on Broadway. Memphis is the winner of the Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards for Best Musical of 2010. First Date premiered at Seattle’s 5th Avenue /ACT Theatre prior to its Broadway run at the Longacre Theatre.  Since its inception in 2006, JYD has also produced Make Me A Song, The Music of William Finn off-Broadway at New World Stages (Drama Desk nom., Outer Critics Circle nom.) and in London and Vanities, A New Musical at Second Stage Theatre.  Prior to creating JYD, Randy was the Managing Director at TheatreWorks in Palo Alto from 1984 to 2006.  

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents an EPIC RADIO ADVENTURE that will be broadcast weekly over the summer!

SAILING INTO ICY STARS

Join orphaned twins Daleea and Ernst as they flee their drab and depressing prospects on the planet Mundanea, with the help of a rogues gallery of space misfits. Will they find the planet Frostopia? If they do, will they find their long lost father? Sailing Into Icy Stars was written by students in PYT's Play writing Master Class, and features the vocal talents of many of our illustrious alumni!

Episode 4: Misdirected to Monkiarond By Naomi Eason

After saving orphanage bully Penthry from the "Planet of Delights" our heroes blasted off again, but once again appear to be lost in space. The latest planet seems to be a living toy box - but how did it get to be that way? What will Daleea, Ernst, Nellie, Sean Nolo, Billy the Sword of Vexation and Penthry need to do before they can resume their search.

Episode 4 Cast:

In tonight's interview, Roni Gal Oz talks with actress Emily Kristen Morris. Originally from the Bay Area, Emily has performed regionally and internationally. She recently closed out the National Tour of "Something Rotten," playing the role of Bea. Regionally she has performed at Finger Lakes Musical Theatre Festival, Gateway Playhouse, Weston Playhouse, Cape Playhouse, NYMF, and Summer Rep Theatre Festival.

Peninsula Youth Theatre presents an EPIC RADIO ADVENTURE that will be broadcast weekly over the summer!

SAILING INTO ICY STARS

Join orphaned twins Daleea and Ernst as they flee their drab and depressing prospects on the planet Mundanea, with the help of a rogues gallery of space misfits. Will they find the planet Frostopia? If they do, will they find their long lost father? Sailing Into Icy Stars was written by students in PYT's Play writing Master Class, and features the vocal talents of many of our illustrious alumni!

Episode 3: A Not So Delightful Planet By Anna Richardson

When we last left our heroes, they had just obtained Billy, the legendary and irritating "Sword of Vexation" and had blasted off again with space adventurer Nellie Badgers, pilot and rogue Sean Nolo and orphanage bully Penthry. They approach a new planet, one that Nolo promises to be Frostopia, where there long-lost father was last seen. But is it?

Episode 3 Cast (in order of appearance):

In this week's interview, Val Zvinyatskovsky meets film and TV professional Gabrielle Makower. Gabrielle is a film-maker and screen writer, whose short film “Contentment” was a quarterfinalist for a Los Angeles International Screenplay Award. Gabrielle has worked on numerous television shows, including Saturday Night Live and The Affair. She is currently assistant show runner for HBO’s The White House Plumbers and was personal assistant to Justin Thoreaux  and assistant show runner on Apple TV’s The Mosquito Coast.

Sound Designer: Val Zvinyatskovsky