Boston Podcast Project

SERIES 1: THE USUAL UNUSUAL
BY MJ HALBERSTADT
DIRECTED BY MEGAN SANDBERG-ZAKIAN

The Usual Unusual is a scrappy and quaint bookstore where Boston’s LGBTQ+ community has gathered to shop, organize, and flirt since the 70’s. When the store’s charismatic founder Penn announces his retirement, neurotic staff-member Charlie persuades him to pass leadership on, rather than close the store. The staff’s efforts to unite a fractured community under one banner – or simply coordinate a weekly reading night — stoke generational disputes about identity, community, and trauma, and lead to fraught and hilarious results.

Episodes

CAST

• Rasheedat “Ras” Badejo* …. Virgo
• Lily Chrones …. Yaz
• Michael John Ciszewski …. Ryan
• Olivia Z. Cote …. Ash
• Will McGarrahan* …. Penn
• Han C. Park …. Jesse
• Eddie Shields* …. Charlie
• Debra Wise* …. Margot

*MEMBER OF ACTOR’S EQUITY ASSOCIATION

Production team

• Dramaturgy – Dr. Helen Deborah Lewis
• Sound Design & Engineering – Elizabeth Cahill
• Zoom Room Management – John Meredith*
• Boston Project Coordinator – Jasmine Brooks
• Producers – Paul Daigneault, Shira Gitlin, Alex Lonati
• Production Management – Dominique Burford, Paul Melone
• Production Assistants – Max Eliot, Nathan Marble
• Original Compositions for The Boston Project Podcast – Quan Yao Lim
• Original Boston Project Podcast Graphics – Evan Turissini