“Live from Mount Olympus” Wins Kidscreen Award for Best Podcast
“Live from Mount Olympus: Theseus & Ariadne,” the award-winning podcast for kids and families produced by the Onassis Foundation, has won the Kidscreen Award for Best Podcast (Kids), one of the most prestigious international honors in children’s media.
The richly imagined, dramatic audio series reimagines Greek mythology through epic storytelling, immersive sound design, and emotionally resonant characters that engage tweens and listeners of all ages. Co-produced by the Brooklyn-based theater ensemble The TEAM and distributed by PRX, “Live from Mount Olympus” continues to stand out as a leading example of high-quality audio storytelling for young audiences.
Since launching in 2021 with “Live from Mount Olympus: Perseus,” the podcast series has released six seasons to date, reaching over 2.3 million downloads and earning widespread industry recognition, including honors from the Webby Awards, Signal Awards, New York Festivals, Radio Festivals, and Bullhorn Awards. The Kidscreen Award places the series among a select group of children’s media projects recognized alongside work from major global entertainment companies, including Disney, Netflix, BBC Studios, and PBS KIDS.
Created and produced by Peabody Award-winning showrunner Julie Burstein, the series features Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award winner André De Shields as Hermes, the god of storytellers, travelers, and thieves. Across its seasons, “Live from Mount Olympus” has brought together an exceptional group of theater, film, and television artists to reimagine ancient myths for contemporary audiences, including Isabella Rossellini, John Turturro, Anna Kendrick, and more.
“Live from Mount Olympus” is available to listen to for free on all major podcast platforms, making its epic adventures accessible to families and young listeners everywhere.
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Founded in 2004, the TEAM is a Brooklyn-based experimental theater collective spirited by some of the wildest and deepest artists working today. Once described by ‘The Guardian’ as “theatrical excavators of American culture, American dreams, and the American psyche,” the TEAM collaboratively creates new works about the experience of living in the United States today to generate dialogue about the nation’s past, present, and future through production and touring. They believe that how they make is as important as what they make, and their production practices strive to embody values of collective liberation.
The TEAM has created and toured 12 original works. The work has been seen in New York at the Public Theater, PS122, Vineyard Theatre, the New 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 are four-time winners of the Scotsman Fringe First Award, winners of the Edinburgh International Festival Fringe Prize, the Herald Angel (2011), the Edinburgh Total Theatre Award (2008), the Best Production Dublin Fringe Award (2007), and were nominated for a Drama League Award for Outstanding Musical (2012).
The TEAM is currently supporting six seedling works in its Petri Projects lab, and is developing “Reconstructing (Still Working but the Devil Might Be Inside),” a new theatrical work that explores the possibility (and value) of intimacy between Black, POC, and white artists as they work to move through history together in the aftermath of slavery. https://theteamplays.org/
