Feed drop! Heathbound Episode One: Telemachus

About this episode

This episode features the first installment of Hearthbound, a post-apocalyptic queer musical untelling of the Odyssey.

The third and final season of The Strange Case of Starship Iris is taking a short hiatus. August 28th, we’ll be dropping the final mini episode, and then we’ll be back with full-length episodes on September the 11th. In the meantime, enjoy the first episode of Jo Chiang's new post-apocalyptic queer musical untelling of the Odyssey, Hearthbound. Features the voices of Jo Chiang as Odessa Amy R. Surratt as Paulie Odessa’s guitar by Pete Lanctot Hearthbound is created, written, and produced by Jo Chiang Directed by Jack Towhey Calk Music directed by Ginger Dolden Sound design and editing by Levi Sharpe Additional dialogue editing by Anna Kelly Rodriguez and Amador L. Rodriguez Music production, additional engineering, and mixing by Pete Lanctot Production managed by Charlotte Muth and Neaco Fox Special thanks to Multitude Studio and our illustrator, Anya Boz Stay in touch with us on hearthboundpod.com You get home safe now, you hear? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Topics covered

• post-apocalyptic
• queer musical
• Odyssey
• Hearthbound
• fiction
• performing arts

Keywords

• Hearthbound
• Odyssey
• queer musical
• post-apocalyptic
• Jo Chiang
• fiction
• performing arts

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Multitude Studio, hearthboundpod.com

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