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A new season, a new adventure!
When a young goddess strikes out on her own for the first time, she is pulled into a terrifying journey, and must find her power in the darkness. Her mother fights to get her back – and the fate of all humanity lies in the balance.
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Live from Mount Olympus is produced by the Onassis Foundation
Meet The Host and Production Team
HERMES
Host
Let me introduce myself: Hermes, god of luck and thieves, and herald of the gods. I carry messages for everyone in my family—so I hear all the best gossip. Perfect podcast material—that’s why I’m the host of our new godspod, Live from Mount Olympus!
Tony Award-winner André De Shields is Hermes.
Karen Brooks Hopkins
Executive Producer
Karen is Senior Advisor and a Board member of the Onassis Foundation, the Nasher Haemisegger Fellow at SMU DataArts located at Southern Methodist University.
Karen was an employee of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (“BAM”) for 36 years, serving as its President from 1999 until retiring in 2015.
Karen has been awarded honorary degrees from St. Francis College, Long Island University, Pratt Institute and Columbia University. She has also received international honors including the King Olav Medal from Norway, the Chevalier de L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star from Sweden. While at BAM, the institution received the National Medal of Arts from President Obama.
Julie BuRstein
Producer & Co-Creator
Julie Burstein is a Peabody Award-winning radio producer (Studio 360) and author (Spark: How Creativity Works) who has spent her life working with creative people and cultural institutions – probing, guiding, and creating live events and audio programs about them and their work.
Her TED talk, 4 Lessons in Creativity, has been viewed more than 2 million times.
Julie has loved creating Live from Mount Olympus with this remarkable team! The show has special resonance because she first learned how to craft engaging stories while listening to her parents read D’Aulaires’ Book of Greek Myths to her when she was growing up. Her well-loved childhood copy is on her desk right now.
THE TEAM
CO-Producer
The TEAM is a Brooklyn-based ensemble dedicated to creating new work about the experience of living in America today.
The company has created and toured 12 original works and have been seen in NYC at the Public Theater, PS122, Vineyard Theatre, Ohio Theatre, and The Bushwick Starr; nationally at ArtsEmerson, A.R.T., Walker Art Center, Playmakers Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Virginia Tech, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas; and internationally at the National Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Barbican, Almeida Theatre, and Battersea Arts Centre in London; Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre; Culturgest in Lisbon; the Salzburg Festival; Galway Festival; Perth International Arts Festival; and Hong Kong Arts Festival.
They’re four-time winners of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, Winner 2011 Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, 2011 Herald Angel, 2008 Edinburgh Total Theatre Award, Best Production Dublin Fringe 2007, and nominated for a 2012 Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical.
Season 1 Production Team
Executive Producer: Karen Brooks Hopkins
Producer & Co-Creator: Julie Burstein
Co-Produced by: The TEAM
Directors: Rachel Chavkin and Zhailon Levingston
Writer: Alexie Basil and Story Editor: Nalini Jones
(For episodes The Prophecy, A Question and a Quest, The Trickster, We’re Related???, I Smell Fear, The Cavern of Serpent Doom, The Weight of the Sky, Sea Monster!)
Writer: Nathan Yungerberg
(For episodes Meet the Parents, No One Can Evade a Prophecy)
Sound Designer & Audio Production: David Schulman
Composer and Musician: Magda Giannikou with Luca Bordonaro
Illustrator: Jason Adam Katzenstein
Senior Project Manager: Zoe Dolan
Graphic Design: Onassis Creative Studio
Business Advisor: Laura Walker
Social Media & Marketing Consultants: Caroline English and Karina Grudnikov
Cast
Vinie Burrows (Gaia, Maia, Gray Sister, Nymph)
Jill Frutkin (Metis, Gray Sister, Nymph)
Divine Garland (Perseus)
Amber Gray (Cassiopeia)
Modesto “Flako” Jimenez (Phylakos)
Libby King (Athena)
Ian Lassiter (Zeus, Apollo, Acrisius, Polydectes, Kronos, sea monster Cetus)
Zhailon Levingston (Young Hermes, Funeral Games Announcer, Series Announcer)
Christina Liberus (Andromeda)
Nehemiah Luckett (Cepheus)
Jake Margolin (Dictys)
James Harrison Monaco (Hephaestus, Atlas, Phineus)
Kristen Sieh (Perseus at ages five and 12, Rhea, Gray Sister, Nymph)
Jillian Walker (Danae)
Calvin Samuel Blanch and Whit Vega Margolin-Vaughan (Baby Perseus)
And André De Shields is Hermes.
Onassis FOUNDATION
The Onassis Foundation’s mission is and will always be human-centric. Since 1975, focusing on the fields of culture, health, and education, it creates the conditions, explores the ideas, and triggers the discussions that lead to a better society. Releasing the potential οf artists, scholars, and scientists, it has supported Greek programs in universities around the world; has granted more than 7,000 scholarships and research fellowships for postgraduate and doctorate studies; has continuously supported Special Education; has acquired the Cavafy Archive to ensure its openness and accessibility to researchers and the wider public; has rare book collections in the Onassis Library; has built and donated to the Greek State the Onassis Cardiac Surgery Centre (OCSC) and is currently building the much-needed Onassis National Transplant Center in Athens; has established Onassis USA (NY & LA), including the ONX Studio in partnership with the New Museum in Midtown Manhattan for extended reality artists, and last but not least, Onassis Stegi in Athens, a cultural center which hosts performances and activities across the whole spectrum of the arts from theatre, dance, music, cinema and the visual arts to the written word, with an emphasis on contemporary cultural expression. The Onassis Foundation believes in active citizens with bold ideas and optimistic dreams, and embraces process, research, study, experimentation, as well as the values of freedom, democracy and human rights.
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