Playwriting Podcast Sampler
I wrote this originally as a submission to New Play Exchange’s front page, but due to the formatting of linking to outside sites, they’re unable to run it. So, I decided to post it here instead.
I started this podcast in 2016 to highlight playwrights living and working in Boston. Since then I’ve found a plethora of other playwriting podcasts available for your listening pleasure, from highly polished and produced recordings to spontaneous ones where actors are thrown into scripts cold. I’ve compiled an undoubtedly incomplete list of them here: https://www.bostonpodcastplayers.com/playwriting-podcasts
To introduce the newcomer to this new genre, I’ve selected one play reading for each podcast listed that is available both for download on the podcast and on New Play Exchange. Read, and listen, to your heart’s content!
ACTIVE PODCASTS
Boston Podcast Players (https://www.bostonpodcastplayers.com) Mox Nox by Patrick Gabridge
Inkubator On Air (https://www.inkubatorlab.org/inkubator-on-air) Rattler by Lindsay Adams
The Parsnip Ship (https://theparsnipship.com/) The New Galileos by Amy Berryman
PlayME (http://www.playmepodcast.com/) Vitals by Rosamund Small
Play4Keeps (https://play4keeps.org/) Silueta by Diana Burbano, Tom Shelton and Chris Shelton
Playing on Air (https://playingonair.org/) Rules of Comedy by Patricia Cotter
Short Play Podcast (https://anchor.fm/short-play-podcast) In the Whole History of Hi-Q by Vince Gatton
Write Hour Podcast (https://thewritehourpodcast.com/) A Dave With Destiny by Ken Preuss
INACTIVE PODCASTS
Amy’s Horse (http:/www.amyshorse.com/) You Haven’t Changed a Bit by Donna Hoke
At the Table (https://www.chargingmoosemedia.com/atthetablepodcast.html) Kin (AKA Amerikin) by Chia Hutchenson
Best of All Possible Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/best-of-all-possible-podcast/id1271552828) Snakes by Jen Huszcza
The Play’s The Thing (http://www.thinktwiceradio.com/matt-boyle/matt-boyle.html) The Offer by Bella Poynton