The Strange Case of Starship Iris Creators & Guests

Nate DuFort is a writer, producer and director who splits his time between Detroit and Chicago. Nate is the Founder and Executive Producer of Soundsington Media, a children's podcast company focusing on quality audio programming for young audiences and the young at heart. His podcasts REACH: A Space Podcast for Kids, My Neighbors Are Dead, and Unspookable have been featured on Linkedin, NPR, CBC Radio, The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Time Out New York, Fast Company, The A.V. Club, Vulture, the front pages of NPR One, Stitcher, and Apple Podcasts. Nate most recently served as the Creative Producer for Local Legend Films, having previously served as the Producer for Second City Theatricals, Producing Director for The Second City Touring Companies and the Producing Artistic Director for The Second City Detroit. Highlights include producing The Second City Guide to the Opera featuring Renee Fleming and Sir Patrick Stewart in partnership with Lyric Opera of Chicago, leading the producing team for The Second City's collaboration with Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and managing the partnership at sea between Second City and Norwegian Cruise Line. Nate is currently directing The Second City and the Kennedy Center's Jazz Comedy Experiment coming to The Kennedy Center in the spring of 2020. Nate served on the Board of Directors for Planet Ant Theatre in Hamtramck, Michigan and from 2005 to 2007 served as the Director of the Planet Ant Film & Video Festival and has segment produced and juried festivals around North America. Nate is also a voice actor who can be heard regularly voicing commercials, video games, and on podcasts such as Love+Radio, Maxine Miles, Creepy, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, and The Big Loop. You can find him on Twitter natedufort

Currently the voice of Michael Tate on popular audio podcast drama Greater Boston, Robert Montague on Tides, Scott Sweet on 1994. James has also had guest appearances on ars Paradoxica, The Strange Case of Starship Iris, Seminar, Big Data, Jim Robbie and the Wanderers, Oakpodcast, The Haven Chronicles, and Radiation World. He was a finalist for a 2016 Audio Verse Award in the category of “Best Performance of an Actor in an Original Ensemble Role for a Long Form Production.”

Cindy Chu is a SAG AFTRA actress based in Los Angeles, California. She is bilingual in Mandarin and English, and majored in Economics at the University of Michigan. She is an avid rock climber (both indoors and out) and also enjoys rollerskating along the beach bike path.

Philomena is a 25-year-old student pursuing an Honours Bachelor's degree at the University of Toronto. They are based in Ontario, Canada, and their recent work includes roles in Procyon Podcast Network's "Me & AU," the Aster Podcast Network's "Under the Electric Stars," and "Two Flat Earthers Kidnap a Freemason," produced by Jeremy Ellett and distributed by Realm.

Sarah hosts MADIVA podcast to help budding voice actors navigate the madness, and voice acts in over 70 indie audiodrama podcasts including Scottish Podcast, 1994, Amelia Project, Hostile Worlds, Edict Zero, Oz9, The Orphans, Ancestry, We fix Space junk, Minefire, and more. She was Podhost for ADPP, and runs Quirky Voices, with new podcast Anyone F’Coffee, and voice acting how-to podcast MADIVA, aiming to produce Teddy Stories and MADCAP in 2020 and more in collaboration ...

Julia Morizawa is an actor, writer, and producer. In podcasting, she is best known as the voice of Dr. Bright in "The Bright Sessions" and the spin-off series, "The AM Archives." Other career highlights include TV appearances on "Scandal" and "SEAL Team," the feature film, "Judas Kiss," the title role in East West Players' production of "Masha No Home," and the web series "Galactic Galaxy" and "Star Trek" Odyssey."

Jamie Price is a voice actor and musician from Edmonton, Canada. They have contributed voice acting to The Strange Case of Starship Iris, What's the Frequency, Greater Boston, Misadventure By Death, and I'm Not Noah. At Podcon 2 in Seattle in 2019, they were a speaker in a panel about Transgender Representation in Audio Drama. In addition to voice acting, they perform music under the name Must Be Tuesday, and once wrote and produced a stage musical called My Boyfriend's Girlfriend.

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Brittony is a versatile artist who has performed as an opera singer, musical theatre artist, jazz singer, choral singer and theatre actor across Canada and the United States. A graduate of Laurentian University with a BAH in Music, they now reside in Vancouver performing around the city for accolades and spare change. In addition to singing and acting, Brittony enjoys playing the piano, the guitar, and the saxophone. How well they perform these extra instruments is another matter.