The Parsnip Ship
The Parsnip Ship, hosted by Iyvon Edebiri, is an intimate series of plays performed before live audiences and made accessible as a monthly podcast. The series fosters community by exploring diverse perspectives and bringing awareness to inspiring voices.
Episodes
June 24, 2025 • 95 mins
Directed by Estefanía Fadul
Sound design by Emilie Weibel and Bennett Lin
Music from Henry Ryeder
Featuring Akyiaa Wilson, Alisha Espinosa, Jacqueline Guillen, and Reynaldo Piniella
Alex and Julie are best friends making a podcast (before podcasts were cool), answering their college’s weirdest questions. But life itself is weird and when love enters the equation, they have to decide what they really mean to each other. From Chi...
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June 2, 2025 • 153 mins
Directed by Phillip Christian Smith
Music from treya lam
Featuring Yvette Ganier, Celia Schaefer, Rory Kulz, Francesa Fernandez, Rory Rubin Byrne, and DJ Davis
For Minerva, the way to escape the doldrums of her graphic design job is to write and narrate her own feminist true crime podcast. Meanwhile, across the country, Felicity, a Mormon stay-at-home wife and mother—and Minerva’s high school nemesis—has just started selling leg...
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May 12, 2025 • 81 mins
Directed by Anne Karyna BakanMusic from Shepup
Featuring Amy Ackerman, Brynn Hambley, Addy Jenkins, Miranda Poett, Erin Proctor, and Mary Harriman
Sadboy Hours (this is a coping mechanism) is a series of funny, honest, and tender vignettes about queerness, weight, and moms, because Mary couldn't seem to write about anything else. This is an experiment in Theater of Self Care, where writing prompts are more like wellness exercis...
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April 21, 2025 • 81 mins
Directed by Felicia Lobo
Music from Ray McGale
Featuring Alexandra Curran, Danté Jeanfelix, Brian Bock, Laura Hetherington, Alyssa Block, and Janice Amaya
In the wake of a devastating nuclear war, Americans have been forced to rebuild their lives underground. Scientists insist it's impossible for citizens to return to the surface, due to deadly radiation. But a fast-growing cult, led by a preacher and his mysterious family, believ...
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June 13, 2024 • 136 mins
Directed by Charlotte Murray
Music from Mike O’Malley
Sound Design by Nina Field
Dramaturgy by Al Parker and Gabriella Steinberg
Featuring Ben Langhorst, Angel Lin, Frankie Placidi, Amanda Centeno, Brandon Bogle, and Arielle Gonzalez
Stage Managed by Alyssa Rios
Sound Operated by Prince Bawuah
Former nobleman Ippolit Mateyevich Vorobyaninov’s dreary life in the early Soviet Union is about to change forever when he discovers hi...
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August 2, 2023 • 131 mins
Directed by Anna Brenner
Music from Vicki Quintero & Nakul Agrawal
Actors: Andrea Negrete, Kelley Rae O'Donnell. Alex Hernandez, Miles Gutierrez-Riley, Annie Henk, David Anzuelo
Juanie is a painter. His canvas: a giant egg, big enough to hold a full-grown adult man. Inside that egg is Juanie’s father’s dream: a prizewinning rooster that he hopes will become a star on the cockfighting circuit. When the egg hatches, the bird’s natu...
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July 11, 2023 • 116 mins
directed by Gaven Trinidad
musical guest Téhilah
ARE YOU THERE TRUMAN? IT’S ME, JUST ANOTHER GUY WHO GREW UP SECRETLY WORSHIPING YOUR CHISELED PORN STAR BODY ONLINE, AND NOW I THINK I LOVE YOU
Cast includes Jonathan Low, Ryan Jacobucci, Kathleen Choe, Shaun Anthony, Wesley Han, and Chris White
ARE YOU THERE TRUMAN?... was recorded live in February 2023
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April 6, 2023 • 76 mins
directed by Gregory Keng Strasser
musical guest Lauryn Alexandria
News travels across the Pacific on Dec. 7 resulting in foolhardy claims of Japanese sympathizers. As calls for war perpetrate a nation, The Ishii Family undertakes radical assimilation to calm the local police and fearful neighbors. Mixing family testimony and cartoon studio-ghibli charm, AMERICAN SPIES is a Queer Japanese American grandson's interpretation of the J...
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March 20, 2023 • 99 mins
Director: Cara Hinh
Musical Guest: Will Bug
A young Korean American girl struggles to grow up without her mother, who has been deported. A sea lion pup is forced to take on the duties of an adult sea lion, when his mother and he are affected by climate change. A play that examines loss, healing, and the connection between all living things.
Cast includes Phoenix Ra, Brittany Anikka Liu, Jully Lee, Estelle Lee, Sarah Shin, and Ter...
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February 22, 2023 • 102 mins
Directed by Melinda Hall
Music from Pamela Jean Agaloos
Cast: Yuriko Miyake, Aaron Banes, Marcie Henderson, Renee Flemings, and Pamela Karp
Recorded live November 28th, 2023
"Five years ago, Mother Wolf was captured and taken away from her pack and newborn pups. Now she returns to Homeland and there is no sign of other wolves. There are frequent avalanches; the glacier is melting at a rapid rate; forest fires and fierce storms are...
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January 23, 2023 • 115 mins
Directed by Rebecca Aparicio, Musician Vie Darling
Cast: Gary Dooley, Imani Russell, Carol Cadby, Saul Nache, Yohanna Florentino and Maribel Martinez
Recorded live Mon, October 31, 2022
"When Mal’s grandmother dies, she inherits a mysterious cabin in the woods. Reunited with her estranged mother Silvia, they parse through possessions, ghosts, and long held family secrets, over a weekend the two of them won’t soon forget. Luciérnag...
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November 9, 2022 • 71 mins
Directed by Gaven Trinidad, Musician Cindy Latin
Cast Kristian Espiritu, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Vanessa Rappa, and Claro de los Reyes
Recorded live September 26th, 2022.
"Angela has arrived to congratulate her twin sister on her new baby but instead finds Eve 'cohabitating' with a Filipino vampire with an infamous hunger for all things fetus. Does Angela believe Eve’s claims that all is well with her new relationship? Nanay, a new pl...
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November 9, 2022 • 66 mins
Directed by Gaven Trinidad, Musician Cindy Latin
Cast Kristian Espiritu, Sergio Mauritz Ang, Vanessa Rappa, and Claro de los Reyes
Recorded live September 26th, 2022.
"Angela has arrived to congratulate her twin sister on her new baby but instead finds Eve 'cohabitating' with a Filipino vampire with an infamous hunger for all things fetus. Does Angela believe Eve’s claims that all is well with her new relationship? Nanay, a new pl...
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February 15, 2022 • 37 mins
Vonda's luck changes overnight when she finds a giant magical peach. At first bite, she's thrilled that years have melted off of her elderly face and body, and she can't wait to share it with her husband, Waylon. But their celebrations quickly become complicated by the surprise birth of their son, Momotaro—who looks nothing like them! When a raccoon steals the magical peach, Momo bravely sets off into the wilds of Georgia to rescue...
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February 8, 2022 • 40 mins
Vonda's luck changes overnight when she finds a giant magical peach. At first bite, she's thrilled that years have melted off of her elderly face and body, and she can't wait to share it with her husband, Waylon. But their celebrations quickly become complicated by the surprise birth of their son, Momotaro—who looks nothing like them! When a raccoon steals the magical peach, Momo bravely sets off into the wilds of Georgia to rescue...
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February 1, 2022 • 44 mins
Vonda's luck changes overnight when she finds a giant magical peach. At first bite, she's thrilled that years have melted off of her elderly face and body, and she can't wait to share it with her husband, Waylon. But their celebrations quickly become complicated by the surprise birth of their son, Momotaro—who looks nothing like them! When a raccoon steals the magical peach, Momo bravely sets off into the wilds of Georgia to rescue...
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May 2, 2020 • 85 mins
Directed by Matrex Kilgore, with musical guest Alwyn Robinson "16-year-old ‘A’ is at war, battling herself and the world around her. She takes comfort in her relationship with God, her patient and compassionate friend who offers ‘A’ stillness and a listening ear. But just as she thinks she’s finally come to understand her own existence, God goes missing leaving ‘A’ to confront an antagonistic Narrator whose true identity may lead h...
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March 27, 2020 • 99 mins
directed by Sagan Chen, with musical guest Psyche Chimère "Mari is a closeted transgender woman from Japan, and the number one contender for a professional wrestling title; if she doesn’t pay a ransom her trans status will be revealed to the world. We watch Mari take on her long time adversary Alexa in a ladder match for the WEW Prima Donna’s Championship." Cast includes Lauren Elizabeth, Delong Le, Leanna Renee Hieber, John DeSilv...
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March 2, 2020 • 106 mins
directed by Rebecca Aparicio, with musical guest Xiomara Syngz "Genesis left her past behind long ago. But her mother’s release from prison forces them both to confront long-buried pain – and to wonder if they can ever become a family again. Morris Sonyando lovingly illuminates the blood ties that break and bind people." Cast includes Ortiz, Daniel Colón, Gabriela Sanchez and Diomargy Uribe.
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January 15, 2020 • 112 mins
directed by Dalia Ashurina, with musical guest Aya Aziz "Although Abraham is a Jew from Flushing, and he only has 1 daughter, Maxine, and her only daughter Racie is a lesbian, Abraham still believes he'll be the Father of Nations. He moves to Tel Aviv in search of his first love, Haajar. When he discovers Haajar's daughter has five Palestinian Muslim sons, he goes to Nablus in the midst of the first Intifada to claim them as his ow...
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