The @storypirates podcast won a Webby for Best Family and Kids Podcast! I am super proud of the huge and talented team that makes the @storypirates podcast every week and extremely grateful to all the kids and families who send us stories and listen! Thank you @TheWebbyAwards for recognizing our show! 🥰
Thank you @iamatheatre for an incredible production, thank you @moritz_vs and @katmburns for bringing out the best in this material, @mattcastlemd and @frankgalgano for making it truly sing and thank you to the phenomenally-talented cast for bringing all of yourselves to this show. My collaborators @huntbell and @elibolin are magic and I feel lucky to get to work with them. Thank you @glennslaterlyrics, you made this draft possible with your patient and brilliant guidance. @evarprice, Victoria Lang and @benjaminsalka, congrats on another kick ass production. Most of all, thanks to Davy Rothbart, Sarah Locke and Found Magazine for all the love , trust and support. LA pals- get your tickets, this thing is selling out!
Quest For The Crystal Crown, the third @storypirates book, is out Tuesday 2/11! Based on an original idea by 11yo Angie Ortiz, written by @absdayout and @theconnorwhite, with gorgeous illustrations by @joetoddstanton and the Fantasy Creation Zone creative writing guide by Quinton Johnson. A huge thank you to all the creators and pals who worked on this book, everyone at @randomhousekids, superstars of lit @geoffrodkey @metahatem @jacqueline.west.writes and @yakamatak23 who helped us get this series on its feet and most of all the kids and families who are reading!
Really proud of this one. I hope you will read it. 📚 🧝♀️ 👑
Over a hundred Story Pirates have worked on each season of this show and I’m super grateful for how creative, energetic, playful and uncompromising our team is every day. Oh and @bairaudio is the best in the business. Shouts to the entire kids podcast community, @spotify, @gimletmedia and most of all the families that listen. We love hearing from you and we love your stories! #kidslisten #stayweird
So grateful this show gets more life at @iamatheatre this Feb/March! Lots of new stuff and plenty of old favorites! #pspagemelater
In the closing moments of @solidsoundfest, this kid in a @storypirates shirt sang onstage with Jeff Tweedy and I managed to get a pic from the side of the stage. Love this festival. Thanks for having us back @wilco! #wilco #solidsound #solidsound2019 #massmoca #storypirates
I can’t believe there is a new @storypirates album out today! #backstrokeraptor features 11 tunes adapted from kids stories, written by certified geniuses @jackpmitchell, @itsellenwinter, @alanschmuckler, @fosterthanaspeedingbullet, @rachelwenitsky, @jtotheesh, @ericgersen, @mattrogerstho, @magicelflord and #brendanogrady! Produced by Brendan O’Grady, @bairaudio, @jackpmitchell and @ericgersen. Mixed by @bairaudio, recorded at @the_relic_room and mastered by #gregcalbi at @sterlingsound. Cover art by @camillastrator and @marshmallowfever. Featuring #linmanuelmiranda! We are so lucky to work with so many talented people. Thank you to everyone who made this album happen, especially the genius kids whose stories inspired these songs!
I am so proud of the first @storypirates album, coming out this Friday 9/28! Feat incredible tunes by @michaelwells, @elibolin, @itsellenwinter, @jackpmitchell, @fosterthanaspeedingbullet, @ericgersen, @rachelwenitsky, @peglegginmeghan, @jtotheesh and #brendanogrady, mixed by @bairaudio, recorded at @the_relic_room and mastered by #GregCalbi at @sterlingsound. Glitter the Horse on the cover designed by @camillastrator. I can’t wait for everyone to hear!!!
These are fantastic creative friends and generous collaborators who just opened #taigaintheberkshires at @wtfestival. We miss you, @jennrapppearl ! Hooray for Community Works! Everyone is an artist and theater is for everyone.