The Post-Meridian Radio Players - Arisia

A reprisal performance will occur on July 18th, 2025.

Arisia '25: The Menagerie

Jay — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 19:16:41 +0000

At the 2025 Arisia science-fiction convention, the Post-Meridian Radio Players presented our gender-swapped look at the classic Star Trek episode “The Menagerie”, directed and adapted by Liz Salazar from the original script by Norman Spinrad. (For information on Arisia, go to https://www.arisia.org/.)

In "The Menagerie," after hearing of an accident involving her former Captain, Christina Pike, Ms. Spock commandeers the Enterprise to return to the site of a past mission for mysterious reasons.

Performances

There was one Arisia performance on Saturday, January 18, 2025, at 5 PM at The Westin Boston Seaport.

Cast and crew

Directed and adapted by Elizabeth Salazar
from the original Gene Roddenberry teleplay
Produced by Caitlin Mason and Karen Sarao
Stage-managed by Kitty Drexel

Captain Jane T. Kirk	.....	Karen Sarao
Captain Christina Pike	.....	Tori Queeno
Ms. Spock	.....	Adria Kyne
Doctor McCoy	.....	Catherine Bromberg
Ms. Scott	.....	The Honorable Rose Martin
Lieutenant Sulu	.....	Naomi Ibasitas
Lieutenant Uhura	.....	Michael Lewis
Commodore Mendez	.....	Liz Salazar
Number One	.....	Jason Smith
Talosian Keeper	.....	Kitty Drexel
Foley Artist	.....	Jamie Carlson

Sound Design	.....	Brad Smith
Stage Manager	.....	Kitty Drexel
House Manager	.....	Noe Kamelamela
Poster Art	.....	Elizabeth Salazar
Disability Consultants	.....	Elizabeth Ross Kitty Drexel

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Reprisal performances will occur on June 7th and 8th, 2024.

Arisia ’24: The Doomsday Machine

Jay — Mon, 11 Dec 2023 15:41:41 +0000

At the 2024 Arisia science-fiction convention, the Post-Meridian Radio Players presented our gender-swapped look at the classic Star Trek episode “The Doomsday Machine”, directed and adapted by Liz Salazar from the original script by Norman Spinrad. (For information on Arisia, go to https://www.arisia.org/.)

Investigating a distress call from the USS Constellation, Captain Jane Kirk finds it dead in space with the commanding officer, Commodore Decker, alone on board with a harrowing tale of a giant planet-killing device. With Captain Kirk stranded on the broken-down starship and a distraught Decker bent on revenge, can the crew of the Enterprise survive their encounter with the planet killer and stop it from continuing its destruction?

Performances

There was one Arisia performance on Friday, January 12, 2024, at 10 PM at The Westin Boston Seaport.

Cast and crew

Directed and adapted by Liz Salazar
from the original Star Trek script by celebrated science-fiction author Norman Spinrad.
Produced by Caitlin Mason, Karen Sarao, and Kitty Drexel
Stage-managed by Kitty Drexel

Captain Jane T. Kirk	.....	Karen Sarao
Commodore Decker	.....	Robin Abrahams
Ms. Spock	.....	Adria Kyne
Doctor McCoy	.....	Catherine Bromberg
Ms. Scott	.....	The Honorable Rose Martin
Lieutenant Sulu	.....	Naomi Ibasitas
Lieutenant Uhura	.....	Michael Lewis
Ensemble	.....	Joye Thaller
Foley	.....	Amelia Smith

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Arisia ’19: Enterprise Incident & Final Problem

Jay — Wed, 12 Dec 2018 18:44:30 +0000

The Post-Meridian Radio Players will have two performances at the 2019 Arisia science-fiction convention. We will continue our tradition of presenting gender-swapped Star Trek episodes, this time performing “The Enterprise Incident”. In addition we will perform a reprise of our original adaptation of Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson in “The Final Problem”.

More details will be provided shortly.

The performances will be at time slots to be determined during Arisia, which is the weekend of January 18-21, 2019. (A convention membership or day pass is required. If you can’t attend at the con, watch for our reprise of “The Enterprise Incident” in the spring!)

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Sherlock Holmes

Arisia ’17: The Naked Time

Jay — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 04:49:01 +0000

At the 2017 Arisia science-fiction convention, the Post-Meridian Radio Players will present Gender-Swapped Star Trek: “The Naked Time”! While investigating a lost research team on a dying planet, Ms. Spock’s landing party discover that the crew of the previous expedition froze to death under bizarre, irrational circumstances. When they return to the Enterprise, they start to behave erratically, and even stoic Ms. Spock has trouble controlling her emotions. Has whatever madness befell the research expedition spread to the crew of the Enterprise?

Dates

PMRP’s gender-swapped take on this classic episode will be on Saturday, January 14th at 10pm in Grand Ballroom AB. (A convention membership or day pass is required. If you can’t attend at the con, watch for our reprise in the spring!)

Featuring

Captain Kirk	.....	Karen Sarao
Ms. Spock	.....	Adria Kyne
Dr. McCoy	.....	Liberty Moody
Ms. Scott	.....	Sarah Brinks
Lt. Uhura	.....	Michael Lewis
Ens. Chekov	.....	Caitlin Mason
Nurse Chapel	.....	Michael Lin
Lt. Sulu	.....	Kathleen Lewis
Yeoman Rand	.....	John Geoffrion
Jill Tormolen	.....	Rosalind Martin
Ensemble	.....	Catherine Bromberg
Director	.....	Mindy Klenoff
Foley andSound Design	.....	Brad Smith

Stage Manager	.....	Liz Salazar
House Manager	.....	Lori-Anne Cohen
Producer	.....	Caitlin Mason
Art	.....	Jenn Spinelli

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Arisia ’16: Journey to Babel

Jay — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 20:17:18 +0000

At the 2016 Arisia science-fiction convention, the Post-Meridian Radio Players presented Gender-Swapped Star Trek: “Journey to Babel”! The Enterprise finds itself host to a number of bickering diplomats - including Spock's parents. When an alien dignitary is murdered, the prime suspect is Spock's mother! The crew must unravel the mystery as an unidentified vessel attacks.

Dates

Our performance was on Saturday, January 16, at 10pm at the Arisia science-fiction convention. (You must have an Arisia membership to attend — unless you’re part of the performance!) Day memberships are usually available (although they sometimes sell out).

(We will also be reprising the show in Davis Square, Somerville, on June 3 at 8pm and June 4 at 2pm and 8pm.)

Featuring

Captain Kirk	.....	Karen Sarao
Ms. Spock	.....	Adria Kyne
Dr. McCoy	.....	Liberty Moody
Ms. Scott	.....	Sarah Brinks
Lt. Uhura	.....	Michael Lewis
Ens. Chekov	.....	Caitlin Mason
Nurse Chapel	.....	Michael Lin
Sarek	.....	Rosalind Martin
Alexander	.....	Kevin Kordis
Ambassador Gav	.....	Mare Freed
Ambassador Shras	.....	Cari Keebaugh
Thelev	.....	Holly Schaff

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Arisia ’15: Space Seed

Jay — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:05:21 +0000

KHAAAAAAAAAN!

Actress-turned-Director Mindy Klenoff (“The Do-Nothing Detective”) is again presenting a gender-swapped interpretation of a classic Star Trek episode. This time she’s showing us a new perspective on “Space Seed”, the episode that introduced the genetically engineered ~~superman~~ superwoman Khan.

The show will be performed at the Arisia Sci-Fi convention (www.arisia.org) in January over MLK weekend. See below for more information (including cast and venue details).

Featuring

Cast

Capt. Jane Kirk	.....	Karen Sarao
Khan	.....	Liz Salazar
Ms. Spock	.....	Adria Kyne
Ms. Scott	.....	Sarah Brinks
Dr. McCoy	.....	Liberty Moody
Ens. Chekov	.....	Caitlin Mason
Lt. Uhura	.....	Michael Lewis
Lt. McGivers	.....	Andy Hicks
Joaqina ensemble	.....	Rosalind Martin

Production Team

Original Script	.....	Gene L. Coon Carey Wilber
Director	.....	Mindy Klenoff
Sound Designer/Foley	.....	Brad Smith
Producer	.....	Caitlin Mason
House Manager	.....	Chris DeKalb

Performance Date

MLK Day Weekend — January 2015
(Watch this space for the exact date and time.)

Admission

Attendance is free with a paid Arisia ’15 registration.

Location

Arisia ’15
Westin Boston Waterfront Hotel
Boston, MA

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Doctor Who: The Starship of Madness

Jay — Fri, 09 May 2014 04:53:14 +0000

A PMRP Fund-Raising Event • March 25th & 26th, 2011
A reprise of PMRP's successful performance at Arisia '11 on January 14th, 2011

THE POST-MERIDIAN RADIO PLAYERS present two FUND-RAISING encore performances of their highly-successful Arisia ’11 staged radio play based on the long-running BBC sci-fi TV series!

About the Show

Suffering Shuggoths!
The Roaring Twenties have just begun! Flappers! Gin joints! Deep Ones? A newly-regenerated Doctor joins forces with a struggling, nightmare-plagued writer by the name of Lovecraft to investigate attacks in Boston by monstrous creatures. Who is this eccentric Professor Whiteman who appears to be behind it all? What is the secret of the Professor's amazing chair that can seemingly cure the insane? What truly goes on inside the Miskatonic Gentlemen's Club? What will happen to the world, and every living being on it, when C'thulhu rises?

PMRP tries its hand at something completely different. For years, Doctor Who fans have been making their own adventures in the form of audio dramas. Until recently, it's been a phenomenon almost unique to the series. In fact, when PMRP was first being formulated, its primary focus was going to be the production of a series of Doctor Who audios. In honor of that original intent, we are proud to present our very first (but hopefully not the last!) Doctor Who episode. But it's not just any old Doctor Who story...

Legacy of the Time War: We all know that the new series of Doctor Who adventures which came to our screens in 2005 picked up shortly after the Eighth Doctor's regeneration into the Ninth. Throughout the new series we've learned that the Eighth Doctor made some difficult choices in order to end the long and bloody Time War between his own people, the Time Lords, and the ruthless hordes of the Daleks. In the end, his choices resulted in peace, but it was achieved only with the destruction of both races.

However...

What if something had gone wrong? What if something different had happened? What if someone had interfered with Time and triggered the Doctor's regeneration earlier than it was meant to be?

Sometimes the most amazing stories begin with “What if...?”

“Starship of Madness” is the beginning of just such a story...

With

Cast

The Doctor	.....	Andy Hicks
Violet Brooks	.....	Alyssa Osiecki
Professor Whiteman	.....	Ron Lacey
H.P. Lovecraft*	.....	Rob Noyes (Fri) Andy Lebrun (Sat)
Faith Parker	.....	Mindy Klenoff
Franklin Pabodie	.....	Tom Champion
The Deep Ones	.....	Michael McAfee Brad Smith

*SPECIAL NOTICE: Due to prior actor commitments, the role of H.P. Lovecraft will be played by Rob Noyes during the Friday night show and by Andy Lebrun during the Saturday matinee.

Technical Crew

Lead Sound Designers	.....	Alicia Goranson Neil Marsh
Sound Design Assistants	.....	Paul Dworkin Zahra Kahn
Digital FX Programming & Music Board Operator	.....	Neil Marsh
Sound Board Operator	.....	Briavaell O'Reilly
Costume Designer	.....	Renée Johnson
Program Designer	.....	Neil Marsh
Ad Designers	.....	Neil Marsh Julia Tenney
House & Merchandise Manager	.....	Chris DeKalb
Additional Stage Crew	.....	TBA

Music

Doctor Who Theme	.....	Ron Grainer
Theme Arrangement	.....	Neil Marsh Based on Murray Gold's 2005 arrangement
Incidental Music	.....	Murray Gold Ben Foster John Debney From the Doctor Who and Torchwood soundtracks

Production Staff

Director Writer	.....	Alicia E. Goranson
Technical Director	.....	Neil Marsh
Producer	.....	Chris DeKalb

Performance Dates

Friday, March 25th, 2011 @ 8:00pm - 9:30pm
Saturday, March 26th, 2011 @ 3:00pm - 4:30pm (matinee)

Location

Urban Promise Church of Somerville

204 Elm Street
Somerville, MA

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Video

Arisia 2011-Dr. Who: The Starship of Madness from sydweinstein on Vimeo.

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Arisia ’06: “Chicken Heart”

admin — Sat, 03 May 2014 14:53:06 +0000

In January of 2006, the Post Meridian Radio Players recreated the classic Lights Out radio drama “Chicken Heart” live at the 2006 Arisia science-fiction convention in downtown Boston, performed live with gooey and squishy sound effects. The performance was followed by a “making-of” presentation.

A recording of this show is available from our CD Baby store.

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Arisia ’07: Red Shift, “The Terror of Terra-Khan”

admin — Sat, 03 May 2014 04:54:19 +0000

An Arisia premiere! Live, original sci-fi radio drama performed right before your very eyes and ears! Join the stalwart Red Shift, his mechanic Lumpy and their Earthling companions in this homage to the pulp radio and film serials of the 1930’s and 40’s.

Performance Dates

Friday, January 12th, ~8:00pm (First Night teaser)
Sunday, January 14th, 1:00pm (feature performance)

Location

Arisia '07
Hyatt Regency Cambridge
President's Ballroom D
Cambridge, MA

Cast

Red Shift	.....	Michael McAfee
Lumpy	.....	Josh Nicholson
Lord Draith	.....	Brian Rust
Dr. Alberts	.....	Rob Noyes
Penny Parker	.....	Renée Johnson
Narrator	.....	Gilly Rosenthol
Queen of Venus	.....	Mare Freed
Khan Leader	.....	Joye Thaller
Officer Starkiller	.....	Jude Shabry

Crew

Writer/Director	.....	Rob Noyes
Producer	.....	Renée Johnson
Foley/FX Artist	.....	Heidi Clark
Sound Designer/ Technical Producers	.....	Rob Noyes

Program

10 pages | 581k

Photos

From left to right: Gilly Rosenthol as The Narrator, Michael McAfee as Red Shift,

Joshua Nicholson as Lumpy, Rob Noyes as Dr. Alberts, and Renée Johnson as

Penny Parker. In foreground: Heidi Clark performing live sound effects.

Behind the camera: An actual factual audience!

Attachment:

arisia07-prog.pdf

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