A HEADSPACE MEDITATION by Mara Nelson-Greenberg
A guided meditation that encourages you to slow down and breathe. It’s designed to help you feel calmer and more grounded.
Today we share the final audio play in our ‘25 - ‘26 Season!
What a season! We’re excited to begin sharing conversations with our artists in the coming weeks, so if you missed those - have no fear, as you’ll soon be able to deep dive with the artists from this season’s plays.
“A Headspace Meditation” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, directed by Sarah Lunnie continues the tradition of the James Stevenson Commission for Short Comedic Plays.
The cast features Zoe Chao and Polly Lee.
It closes our ‘25-’26 Season. This season, 4 of our plays were commissions. In December, we premiered “73, SK.” by Else Went, directed by Emma Rosa Went, and “The Corner Cafe” by Charles Mee, directed by Tom Dugdale. In January, we premiered the inaugural MC Libby Commission, “Father’s Sin” by Maleek Rae with music by Xander Browne. Directed by POA Alum, Goldie E. Patrick.
February connected us to a little love with POA regular, John Patrick Shanley’s “The Red Coat”.
Playing on Air is hosted by Artistic Director, Joshua Kahan Brody and Associate Artistic Director & Creative Producer, Garlia Cornelia Jones.
ABOUT THE PLAY, “A HEADSPACE MEDITATION”: A guided meditation that encourages you to slow down and breathe. It’s designed to help you feel calmer and more grounded.
Hosted by Joshua Kahan Brody & Garlia Cornelia Jones
Produced by Garlia Cornelia Jones & Joshua Kahan Brody
Recording, Audio editing and sound design by John Kilgore
Our Theme Music is by Tom Kochan
Season Key Art: Tylar Greer-Travis
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THE RED COAT by John Patrick Shanley
A teenage boy in the Bronx lies in wait outside a party for a girl he hardly knows. His mission, which he accomplishes with touching, if halting, effectiveness, is to tell her that he loves her.
Today, we are back with a Playing on Air favorite! John Patrick Shanley’s “The Red Coat”
It’s been an exciting ‘25-’26 Season here at Playing on Air! We’ve got 1 play left in two weeks, “A Headspace Meditation” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg. This season, 4 of our plays are commissions. In December, we premiered “73, SK.” by Else Went, directed by Emma Rosa Went, and “The Corner Cafe” by Charles Mee, directed by Tom Dugdale. Two weeks ago, we premiered the inaugural MC Libby Commission, “Father’s Sin” by Maleek Rae with music by Xander Browne. Directed by POA Alum, Goldie E. Patrick.
This week, we’re back with another rockstar cast, POA Alums, Amy Ryan and Michael Stuhlbarg in John Patrick Shanley’s “The Red Coat”.
Playing on Air is hosted by Artistic Director, Joshua Kahan Brody and Associate Artistic Director & Creative Producer, Garlia Cornelia Jones.
ABOUT THE PLAY, “THE RED COAT”: A teenage boy in the Bronx lies in wait outside a party for a girl he hardly knows. His mission, which he accomplishes with touching, if halting, effectiveness, is to tell her that he loves her.
Hosted by Joshua Kahan Brody & Garlia Cornelia Jones
Produced by Garlia Cornelia Jones & Joshua Kahan Brody
Recording, Audio editing and sound design by John Kilgore
Our Theme Music is by Tom Kochan
Season Key Art: Tylar Greer-Travis
How to listen:
Search “Playing on Air” in your favorite podcasting app – or stream below!
Looking for a list of Podcasting apps? Check out a full list of platforms here!
Subscribe, Like, Follow, Review or leave a comment!
Please be sure to follow us on Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn.
BITE THE HAND by Ara Watson (Summer 2022 Re-Release)
In this week's summer re-release, we're doing a bit of time travel. It’s a balmy night in the post-WWII Ozarks, and a young woman is leaving behind her life as a "lady of the evening" for an offer of marriage. Then a client shows up with some jaw-dropping news.
Oscar-winner Chris Cooper (A Doll’s House, Part 2, Adaptation, American Beauty), Emmy-winner Margo Martindale (“The Good Wife”, "The Americans," "Justified") and Broadway’s Liv Rooth (SURE THING, To Kill a Mockingbird, Venus in Fur) star in BITE THE HAND, Ara Watson’s (A Different Moon) potent classic, directed by Tony Award-winner Doug Hughes (SOMETHING I'LL TELL YOU TUESDAY, Doubt). Stay tuned after the performance for an animated conversation with Watson and the cast moderated by Playing On Air founder and consulting director Claudia Catania.
Listen on iTunes, Apple Podcasts, Podbay, Player FM, subscribe to our RSS feed, search ‘Playing on Air’ in your favorite podcasting app – or stream below! [31 Minutes 40 Seconds]
HAPPY by Alan Zweibel
In Happy by Alan Zweibel (“SNL,” Curb Your Enthusiasm,” 700 Sundays with Billy Crystal) a baseball fan (Scott Adsit of “30 Rock” and “Veep”) makes a pilgrimage to the home of a former baseball star who is now a janitor in Delray Beach, Florida (Frankie Faison of “The Wire”) and asks him to sign a very special ball. After a fair amount of humor and misunderstanding, the power of baseball to bond fathers, sons and men emerges. Directed by Fred Berner (Executive Producer/Director, "Law & Order"). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the artists moderated by Host Claudia Catania.
Download on iTunes, Podbay, Player FM, subscribe to our RSS feed, search ‘Playing on Air’ in your favorite podcasting app – or stream below! [33 Minutes 30 Seconds]
AT THE WATER’S EDGE, WET by Jonathan Bernstein
The curtain is up. The play is in progress. We hear two stage managers. Calling the show. A man and a woman. At The Water’s Edge, Wet is written and directed by Jonathan Bernstein, whose plays and musicals have been produced throughout the country. His cast today includes Callie Thorne (“Necessary Roughness,” “Rescue Me,” “The Wire,”) and Jeremy Shamos (Clybourne Park, Birdman, Noises Off). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation with the artists moderated by our Producing Artistic Director, Claudia Catania.
Download on iTunes, Podbay, Player FM, subscribe to our RSS feed, search ‘Playing on Air’ in your favorite podcasting app – or stream below! [19 Minutes 58 Seconds]
BITE THE HAND by Ara Watson
It’s post-WWII in the Ozarks and a young woman is leaving her “lady of the night” job for an offer of marriage when a former client shows up with some jaw-dropping news. Oscar-winner Chris Cooper (A Doll’s House, Part 2), Emmy-winner Margo Martindale (“The Good Wife”, Justified) and Broadway’s Liv Rooth (Venus in Fur) star in Bite the Hand, Ara Watson’s potent classic, directed by Tony-winner Doug Hughes (Doubt). Stay tuned after the performance for a conversation moderated by our Producing Artistic Director, Claudia Catania.
Download on iTunes, Podbay, Player FM, subscribe to our RSS feed, search ‘Playing on Air’ in your favorite podcasting app – or stream below! [31 Minutes 40 Seconds]